picquets

Since we could see their picquets round the camp-fires not fifty yards away, it was a reasonable conclusion, and we hadn't stolen twenty yards along the riverside when someone hailed us.

Fiancée 2010

We were to swim the river beyond the northern rampart, recross it by the bridge west of the Residency, and cut straight south through Lucknow city and hope to run into Campbell's advance picquets on the other side.

Fiancée 2010

The same discords which agitated the counsels of the insurgents, raged even among their meanest followers; and their picquets and patrols were more interested and occupied in disputing the true occasion and causes of wrath, and defining the limits of Erastian heresy, than in looking out for and observing the motions of their enemies, though within hearing of the royal drums and trumpets.

Old Mortality 2004

Sharpe crossed the bridge, spoke to the two men who stood guard at the southern end, then went back to the picquets at the northern side, and afterwards he climbed the wooden ladders in the fortress, past the room where Hickey still stared forlornly at Teresa, and found Patrick Harper on the southern parapet.

Sharpe's Skirmish Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2002

All night he had ridden, and he had evaded the picquets in the sierra's foothills and defeated the infantry garrison of a fort with cavalrymen.

Sharpe's Skirmish Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2002

Then, when picquets had been set on the captured ramparts and search parties sent to find the wounded, Sharpe sheathed his sword and walked to the gun embrasures.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

He stopped because there was a danger that the French might have put heavy picquets into the villages which lay in the hills about the city.

Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

The picquets had sent the call that the enemy was in sight and running, so now the other Dragoons would be spurring forward, exchanging forage caps for canvas-covered helmets.

Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

Rifleman Hagman, a toothless, middle-aged Cheshire man, went to hunt for food, while the Lieutenant put picquets on the goat tracks that led east and west.

Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

He moved the glass to look at the shallow trench in the snow that marked the line of the goat track and he saw that the picquets were gone.

Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988