sentry-boxes

Not even so far as the sentry-boxes were Daughtry and Kwaque permitted to stroll.

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A quarter of a mile in either direction, looking out along the shallow canyon of the sand-hills, Dag Daughtry could see the sentry-boxes of the guards, themselves armed and more prone to kill than to lay hands on any escaping pest-man, much less persuavively discuss with him the advisability of his return to the prison house.

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He multiplied the ordinary daily and nightly guard round his castle till there seemed to be more sentry-boxes than houses in the town, and doubtful characters were shot without mercy.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

The German soldiers by the innumerable sentry-boxes looked strangely like German toys, and the clean-cut battlements of the castle, gilded by the sunshine, looked the more like the gilt gingerbread.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Below the dial was a little platform, and at either end of it rose two miniature sentry-boxes, with closed doors.

Armadale 2003

He multiplied the ordinary daily and nightly guard round his castle till there seemed to be more sentry-boxes than houses in the town, and doubtful characters were shot without mercy.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

The German soldiers by the innumerable sentry-boxes looked strangely like German toys, and the clean-cut battlements of the castle, gilded by the sunshine, looked the more like the gilt gingerbread.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

The sentry-boxes, which you may observe at each side, will both open at the same moment.

Armadale 2003

They were perhaps sentry-boxes, or little summer-houses used to give shade.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

These had an opening and could be used to sit in like sentry-boxes.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954