sentinelship

I stopped, as I often do, to approach Old Father Tree for a little one-sided conversation about what he had seen during his long sentinelship.

The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985

But this is a grave mistake, for coarseness will betray itself in spite of the most watchful sentinelship.

Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous

When I hoped that the republic was at last recalled to a proper respect for your wisdom and for your authority, I thought that it became me to remain in a sort of sentinelship, which was imposed upon me by my position as a senator and a man of consular rank.

The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Here he was stationed during the French war, and shared in the perilous sentinelship of the frontier.

Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 George T. Stevens

When I hoped that the republic was at last recalled to a proper respect for your wisdom and for your authority, I thought that it became me to remain in a sort of sentinelship, which was imposed upon me by my position as a senator and a man of consular rank.

VI. The First Oration Against Mark Antony 1906

But still his bowed form, stern in its sentinelship, guarded the something concealed behind the shadows.

The Purchase Price Emerson Hough 1890