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Example sentences for "barrack"

Lexicographically close words:
barouches; barouns; barque; barques; barraca; barracks; barracoon; barracoons; barracuda; barrage
  1. The habits I would inculcate to my apprentice are not exactly consistent with mess parties and barrack suppers.

  2. It was in the barrack at George's Street that I apprehended him.

  3. She heard the words, and with an activity greater than I could have expected, sprang into the barrack yard, while the police passed eagerly on in vain pursuit of their victims.

  4. The silly routine of the barrack life filled all my thoughts, save when the waning condition of my purse would momentarily turn them towards the future; but these moments of reflection came but seldom, and at last came not at all.

  5. About 3 o'clock that afternoon the barrack bags of the regiment were received and distributed to the soldiers.

  6. After the dinner officers and battery members adjourned to the second floor of the barrack where battery talent furnished an entertainment, consisting of instrumental and vocal numbers and winding up with several good boxing bouts.

  7. O" block, in the plan of Camp Meade, was designated as the training center of the 311th Field Artillery and barrack No.

  8. Barrack 019 was situated in a small glade of trees which fringed the edge of the horse-shoe curve that the general plan of cantonment construction assumed.

  9. YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW" Officers at Fort Niagara--Assignment of Officers Barrack org.

  10. The barrack squad rooms were thoroughly cleaned and disinfected each day and all blankets were taken out for a daily airing.

  11. Arriving at the remount the battery detail was housed in a sheet-iron barrack with corrugated sheet-iron bunks.

  12. A hundred times he had put himself through this drill before a barrack audience, and it had seemed as if he could not make a break.

  13. They were penned meanwhile in a field by the river, below the railroad track, and at night they were shut into a rough barrack which had been hastily put up for the purpose.

  14. He slid the panel into position, and placed against it the brooms and mops used in keeping the barrack clean.

  15. You go through the barrack yard there, and through the little gate which you'll see over at the end on your right, and you'll be on the towing-path.

  16. He put both his hands into his trousers pockets, keeping tight hold on the precious sovereigns, and turning, walked up the barrack yard.

  17. By this time, the barrack had been set fire to, and the flames raged fiercely.

  18. There remained in the barrack a few dragoons, a score of infantry, and one subaltern officer.

  19. He gave the word, and a volley of slugs rattled against the barrack windows.

  20. Yet as we entered the barrack gate I heard Ranjoor Singh tell a German officer in English that we had all greatly enjoyed our view of the city and the exercise.

  21. Sahib, that barrack was like a zoo--like the zoo I saw once at Baroda, with animals of all sorts in it!

  22. On the other side of the Golden Horn we were marched through narrow streets, uphill, uphill, uphill to a very great barrack and given a section of it to ourselves.

  23. He came out in a minute or two and then we were marched out of the barrack in the dimming light, with Tugendheim in full marching order falling into step behind us and the senior German officer smoking a cigar beside Ranjoor Singh.

  24. An excellent barrack has been built for the Cape corps, and another for the troops of the line, but as yet no officers' quarter.

  25. What a relief it is to have left the confinement of the dreadful barrack for this small cottage on the hill!

  26. The scene through the opposite window looking on to the barrack yard was very different from the rather sombre picture without.

  27. At last, in a remote corner of the barrack buildings, someone discovered a major who was in charge of the Intelligence Department.

  28. All round the barrack square the men stood in groups as I have described, and in one corner were clusters of men arrayed in their new garments.

  29. The crowd outside the barrack gates was composed chiefly of women and loafers, but every now and then it opened to admit a handful of reluctant-looking men, who had probably stayed outside until their money was exhausted.

  30. There were not even women to wail by the barrack gate, for they marched away at dinner-time and official lies had been distributed where they would do most good.

  31. Then he stopped chuckling, to hurry faster, for a giant horn had rooted chunks out of the blackness by the barrack gate, and now what sounded like a racing car was tearing up the drive.

  32. Nor was the way he took the corner by the barrack gate, on one wheel, any criterion; he always did it, just as he never failed to acknowledge the sentry's salute by raising his whip.

  33. The babu was recovering his breath, and with it his yearning to behold a regiment careering through the barrack gate to the rescue.

  34. In the darkness of the barrack wall there were more than a thousand men, women and children, many of them Sikhs, who clamored to be told things, and by the gate was a guard of twenty men drawn up to keep the crowd at bay.

  35. There was a babu sittin' by the barrack gate who offers to eat a German a day, as long as we'll catch 'em for him.

  36. Three hundred yards beyond the barrack wall Colonel Kirby knelt on the front seat and poked the driver from behind.

  37. He reached the barrack gate speechless and breathless, just as Ranjoor Singh rode up on Bagh, mud-plastered after an afternoon's work teaching scouts.

  38. So Warrington sat back against the cushions until the guard at the barrack gate turned out to present arms to the risaldar's raised whip.

  39. He must kill these two, he decided, while yet safe from barrack hue and cry.

  40. Since I saw you outside the barrack gate?

  41. An attack was made on the barrack at Portlaw, but with a like result; two men were stricken dead by the bullets of the police.

  42. Of course they would, gladly; and the little girl was taken out of the window with all tenderness, and given up to her mother who had chanced to be outside the barrack when the attack commenced.

  43. After he, at the head of his party, had demanded the surrender of the barrack in the name of the Irish Republic, the police fired, and the fire was returned.

  44. A messenger was at once despatched from the court to the barrack with the writ.

  45. During the day we were allowed to walk round the barrack square for about three hours with eighty British and a hundred and fifty French soldiers, some of whom were daily detailed to work in the town.

  46. A naval officer in my barrack received a miniature billiard-table, which became immensely popular.

  47. This captain suddenly entered a room in our barrack and surprised a Scotsman lying on his bed reading a book.

  48. One day a new lot of orderlies arrived and took up their quarters in a barrack separated from our part of the camp by some wire.

  49. Instead of complying the culprit dodged into a barrack and out of a window on the opposite side and disappeared.

  50. During the first few weeks of barrack life the men settled down serene in the thought that they would soon be speeding homeward.

  51. He was blessed with an abundance of original humor which made him doubly loved by the soldiers during the lonely hours of barrack life.

  52. In the early days of barrack life, men talked of returning home to celebrate Thanksgiving, but after October had begun to decline it became evident that these fond hopes were not to be realized.

  53. During the five tedious months of barrack life when others were idly waiting, he devoted himself to his chosen profession.

  54. Nothing farther,” said the woman, “than that it is said to be haunted, and to have been a barrack many years ago.

  55. He thundered back to Arcot gate, He thundered up through Arcot town, Before he thought a second thought In the barrack yard he lighted down.

  56. Stretton made a bundle of his uniform, climbed on to Warrisden's shoulders, and threw it over the wall into the barrack yard.

  57. There was one whom Stretton had passed only a minute before sitting on the ground under the shadow of the barrack wall.

  58. Add some barley for the mule and some food for me, and bring it with the clothes to the south-west corner of the barrack wall at eight.

  59. Then he appeared to be crossing the great barrack square, and passed out of my sight, while my eyes closed, and I was dropping off to sleep, when I started wide-awake again listening.

  60. The uniform worn at these formations should not be worn around in the barracks,--every man has sufficient "second best" garments for barrack use.

  61. When two soldiers get into a row that is not of a serious nature, a good plan is to set them at work scrubbing the barrack windows--one on the outside and one on the inside, making them clean the same pane at the same time.

  62. These are the discontented, the disputants, the orators of the mess-room, and between these barrack politicians and the politicians of the street an alliance is at once formed.

  63. An extraordinary spectacle now presents itself in this barrack courtyard surrounding the prison.

  64. Sergeant Rahilly sunned himself on a bench outside the barrack door, and Mr. Flanagan sat in a room behind his shop nodding over the ledger in which his customers' debts were entered.

  65. He went over to the police barrack and explained the situation to Sergeant Rahilly.

  66. Three days later Inspector Chalmers, of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and Major Whiteley, the magistrate, sat together in the office of the police barrack stations.

  67. The rendezvous for us all is in your barrack yard, and at nine o'clock we shall be here.

  68. Thank goodness I have never entered one; but even the barrack cells can scarcely be called inviting.

  69. On entering the barrack yard, they found that the regiment had marched, ten days before, for the frontier, and that Lord Galmoy's regiment had taken their place.

  70. Then he went up to the colonel, who was just entering the barrack yard.

  71. In Ireland," he said, "the most likely place to find a police barrack is where there are no houses.

  72. I'll have to go to the barrack for the night.

  73. Afterwards, for more than an hour, men stopped casually at the barrack door, chatted on indifferent subjects with Sergeant Farrelly or Constable Cole, and then asked one or two leading questions about Miss Blow and her business.

  74. Mr. Goddard, who was half way to the barrack door, turned back.

  75. We've telegraphed to every police barrack in the neighbourhood, and they haven't turned up anywhere.

  76. In the second place, she had come to the barrack bearing a note from Lord Manton, and however unintelligible the note might be, it had unquestionably been written by a peer of the realm.

  77. His wife was up at the barrack shortly after Constable Moriarty left with the young lady, and she says he's missing.

  78. They leave the public road a mile to the east of the village, having passed, supposing them to start from Jimmy O'Loughlin's hotel, both the police barrack and the railway station.

  79. Patsy Devlin's wife, as you heard, is likely to go straight to the police barrack when she misses him.

  80. He was a kindly man, as most police sergeants are, and it grieved him to think that the young lady who had established herself in his barrack was spending a whole day with nothing to eat except dry biscuits.

  81. The mistress is giving it a bit of a rinse the way it'll be clean for you; and I came back to tell you that Mr. Moriarty from the barrack below is at the door, and he says he wants to see you.

  82. You will always find a barrack where there are no people.

  83. Sergeant Farrelly," said Mr. Goddard, "will now proceed to the barrack and provide himself with handcuffs.

  84. The building has for many years been occupied as a barrack for regiments of the line, and the main characteristics of a barrack - an extreme nudity and a very queer smell - prevail throughout its endless compartments.

  85. You turn into the town again beside a great military barrack which is ornamented with a rugged mediaeval tower, a relic of the ancient fortifications, known to the Tourangeaux of to-day as the Tour de Guise.


  86. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barrack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.