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He turned to leave the chapel, and went out between the guardrooms and gates of the keep, where the twilight hung pale against the black pillars of the portal.

A River So Long 2010

We entered the main building and went through some areas that had obviously been checkpoints and entrances when the place had functioned as a prison; there were doors of bulletproof glass operated by electrical switches, where people had to be buzzed through, watched over by guardrooms with speakers and control panels.

Dying to Live Kim Paffenroth 2006

Miriam and I were prepared to stone shape our way through, although we intended to go through a different section of rock, into one of the guardrooms.

Gloria Goodbody gloriagoodbody 2005

Duncan was in one of the guardrooms with a flaming sphere and a black bear, both of which were going to attack him unless he could get my attention to call them off, since they were both mine.

Gloria Goodbody gloriagoodbody 2005

He turned to leave the chapel, and went out between the guardrooms and gates of the keep, where the twilight hung pale against the black pillars of the portal.

Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994

The guard lowered his spear threateningly, opening his mouth to shout an alarm that would bring spearmen swarming out of the guardrooms at either end of the alleyway.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

The town gave itself a grand name and grew walls and towers, though its walls were but little walls to keep out beggars, and owls nested in the empty guardrooms of its towers.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

Her jaw set, she kept her eyes straight ahead of her, forcing herself not to see the leers of the two other guards out in the hall or hear their comments; she saw only the smokestains on the stone arches of the low ceiling and how the shadows of the torches jerked and quavered in the drafts that came down from the narrow stairways to the guardrooms above.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

His picture may hang prominently in all the guardrooms and be engraved in thousands of snowdrops 'brains, but he has seen The Return of Jack Slade twenty-seven times.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

The guard lowered his spear threateningly, opening his mouth to shout an alarm that would bring spearmen swarming out of the guardrooms at either end of the alleyway.

Conan the Adventurer Howard, Robert E. 1966