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Example sentences for "guardroom"

Lexicographically close words:
guardian; guardians; guardianship; guardias; guarding; guards; guardship; guardships; guardsman; guardsmen
  1. The window of the guardroom was but five feet from the ground.

  2. Probably he will place him in the guardroom until Captain Putnam arrives.

  3. He had no sooner departed than George Strong marched Baxter off to the guardroom previously described.

  4. Dick had been captured by Josiah Crabtree just as he was vaulting the iron fence around the guardroom window.

  5. He was going to lock up my brother first, but I said I had fired the cracker, and so he compelled me to go to the guardroom with him.

  6. He had seen the door of the guardroom open and Josiah Crabtree come in.

  7. Mr. Crabtree says you have been impudent to him, and that when he locked you in the guardroom for breaking the rules you attacked him and knocked him down.

  8. A duplicate key to the door of the guardroom had done the trick.

  9. Visit the guardroom at each gate, see the lieutenants of the Spanish police and bring me back a list of parties which have left the town since morning.

  10. Every guardroom was emptied; the roisterers surged into the street from a dozen albergars and cervecerias.

  11. The guardroom was vacant; but there were arms there and ammunition.

  12. In the guardroom the troopers of the Royal Horse who were not on guard were stretched in slumber.

  13. As the man entered the guardroom the corporal glanced up, and as his eyes fell upon the newcomer, he sprang to his feet, saluting.

  14. The corporal marched his troopers from the guardroom toward the stables.

  15. We have a guardroom at the Hall--a sort of lock-up; and if it is necessary I will have them placed there until Colonel Colby can investigate, and until you can make up your mind what you want to do.

  16. I'll have to place you in the guardroom until Colonel Colby gets back.

  17. The twins talked it over with the others for a little while longer, and then were let out of the guardroom by a servant, who locked the door after them.

  18. In the guardroom the time for Jack and Fred passed slowly.

  19. Within the porch the sentry at his box was talking to two of his comrades who, with their coats loosened, were leaning over the railing of the balcony on the guardroom side.

  20. He had just risen from his seat in the guardroom to select men for these tasks when there was a commotion below--a shout of alarm, followed by a moment's silence, then a cheer.

  21. You will find paper and ink in the guardroom upstairs.

  22. The two men above stared in bewilderment for a moment; then, partially realising the situation, they ran back into the guardroom shouting with alarm.

  23. Tim sang out to the men behind him in the guardroom and armoury to line the balcony, and fired down among the enemy.

  24. Staircases led to the upper floor, in which were, on one side the quarters of the men, on the other the guardroom and armoury.

  25. Once more Mercedes, therefore, found herself in the guardroom of the fort in the presence of the man she loathed and feared above all others in creation.

  26. Safe when I left her in the guardroom with Morgan--and armed.

  27. The doors of the guardroom and cells are then opened by the noncommissioned officer having the keys.

  28. He will carry the keys of the guardroom and cells, and will not suffer them to leave his personal possession while he is at the guardhouse, except as hereinafter provided.

  29. To return the prisoners to the guardroom and cells, the sergeant commands; 1.

  30. And now, as the heavy door of the Maastricht police headquarters slammed in our faces, and the key rattled in the guardroom lock, my companion in crime threw down his hat and coat in rage.

  31. Quick as thought he shut the guardroom door.

  32. One room had no communication with the others: it was a sort of guardroom entered by a heavy wooden door.

  33. In the old guardroom and the compound were a few gnawed human bones; but there was no other trace of the missing expedition, although there was every sign that disaster had overtaken it.

  34. She had no recollection of the horde who had broken into the guardroom where she and Cameron had been.

  35. The bones in the guardroom and compound told them that much, but all trace of their identity had been gnawed off by prowling hyenas.

  36. The guardroom at the castle was a vast and really fine apartment, with a vaulted roof and majestic pillars, that gave the idea of much rude strength of construction.

  37. Broglie had to pass through the guardroom of this portion of the irregular buildings that formed the Hradcany.

  38. They entered the guardroom together: the chamber was full of the perfume of Virginian tobacco and pleasantly warm.

  39. The anecdote is known of a soldier who was roasting a goose in the guardroom of the Chateau of Tours while Catherine and Henri IV.

  40. As he went through the guardroom to go to the council-chamber, the Grand Master desired the usher to bring up the Queen's furrier.

  41. But he had come from a stove-heated guardroom into the cold sea wind off the Pacific--into the floating wisps of vapor that sent chill to the marrow.

  42. Take Morton into the guardroom till I get back, sergeant, and let him warm himself thoroughly.

  43. For the lad had been mad enough to make a dash for his liberty, in spite of knowing what would follow, the result being that the sentry by the guardroom had challenged him to stop, and as he ran on fired.

  44. The formalities over, we left our bicycles in the guardroom and, crossing the bridge, proceeded along the tow-path at the side of the canal.

  45. On a word of command two scared sentries appeared, having been ordered to take me to the guardroom immediately.

  46. It snowed all the next evening, and when the sergeant brought me my watery supper, I asked if he would stand my boots by the guardroom fire that night as the fleece held such a quantity of water.

  47. You said, I think, that you were standing in the guardroom doorway when Captain Tremayne passed you at twenty minutes to twelve on the night of the 28th?

  48. Captain Tremayne turned the corner, and was out of my sight, seeing that I didn't go beyond the guardroom doorway.

  49. The shadows of the guardroom were changed and shifted and flung here and there by the torches carried by the busy Oysters.

  50. The tunnel ended in a large rocky hall with the armory, hung with ten thousand gleaming shields, on the one side, and the guardroom crowded with enthusiastic Lobsters on the other.

  51. The guardroom is really meant for the criminal and the hopeless fool.

  52. To go on parade with the feeling that there is a guardroom behind you to enforce your whims and ill–balanced opinions is madness.

  53. Now to meet an esteemed friend doing pack-drill outside the guardroom is embarrassing, especially if you happen to be walking with his Commanding Officer.

  54. The elderly Landsturmers guarding the bridge gathered us in and took us over to their guardroom at the hotel.

  55. The prisoner was taken to the guardroom and we never heard his ultimate fate, but at the ruling rate he was lucky if he got off with ten years.

  56. The high revels in the guardroom were no more, the cuirassiers were no longer made up of the young nobles of the kingdom; they were now merely watch dogs.

  57. The guardroom was at once emptied, and the cuirassiers turned off toward the stables, where the main body of the troops was stationed.

  58. As soon as our position had changed, Castro checked himself, and stepped aside into the shadow of the guardroom doorway.

  59. I thought I saw Castro's peaked hat and large cloak flit in the gloom into which fell the light from the small doorway of a sort of guardroom near the closed gate.

  60. The guardroom was filled with citizens and common people, some playing, some drinking, some talking.

  61. I see the other soldier issue from the guardroom and come toward us.

  62. He walked behind the board screen, conscious that his movements were hidden from the men in the guardroom and, for that matter, from the eyes of anybody in the prison building.

  63. About that time a lazy man in the guardroom rolled slow gaze upon the yard.

  64. He knew that the men in the main guardroom were reduced to a shift of two while the others went to their dinners; the two men were in the habit of giving the deserted yard only indifferent attention.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guardroom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    brig; jail; stockade