sentried

Ancient black and grey trunks sentried the road on either side, sending gnarled boughs overhead to form twined arches that were centuries old.

The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

Corny Kelleher closed his long daybook and glanced with his drooping eye at a pine coffinlid sentried in a corner.

Ulysses 2003

Corny Kelleher closed his long daybook and glanced with his drooping eye at a pine coffinlid sentried in a corner.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Every door, every stair-head was double-sentried, but except for these silent figures the rooms and passages were alike empty.

The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896

When heaven's jewel had fled o'er far fields, that fierce sprite came, night-foe savage, to seek us out where safe and sound we sentried the hall.

Beowulf Anonymous 1887

Over this calm blue sea, on this still most motionless air, floated out from the megaphone of the lightship that sentried the shoals: "Hughes is elected with fifty thousand majority."

Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914. Twenty-seven Years in the Pastorate; Sixteen Years' Active Service as Chaplain in the U. S. Army; Seven Years Professor in Wilberforce University; Two Trips to Europe; A Trip in Mexico. Theophilus Gould 1866

Even without a sentried unit within your city, it's capable of repelling loosely organised mobs of barbarians, but not much else.

Gameplanet 2010

When heaven’s jewel had fled o’er far fields, that fierce sprite came, night-foe savage, to seek us out where safe and sound we sentried the hall.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

When heaven’s jewel had fled o’er far fields, that fierce sprite came, night-foe savage, to seek us out where safe and sound we sentried the hall.

Beowulf 2003

When heaven’s jewel had fled o’er far fields, that fierce sprite came, night-foe savage, to seek us out where safe and sound we sentried the hall.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003