All around the bottom of the slope back of the hill she's got a white picket fence, and the gate to it is padlocked.
The first thing she did was to have a strong picket fence constructed around the base of the hill leading up to Quill's Window, shutting off all accessible avenues of approach to the summit.
A struggling calf was making a heroic fight for freedom, but found itself propelled toward the picket fence surrounding the church and thrust through the gate.
Katherine held tightly to the picketfence while the man was speaking.
The careless positions of things as they approached the front did not seem alarming, and I was not prepared to believe an enemy was so close, when the picket informed us that "the Yankees were in that woods," some two hundred yards in front.
Richmond, between the picket lines of the two armies.
There was a flagstaff before the largest of the buildings, and a neat picket fence before the whole row.
He had miles of picket fences enclosing his pastures.
The Nihilists "on picket duty" were strolling around the streets.
Hardinge, seeing how matters were trending, rode out to the outlying picket of the Guides' cavalry, and there took his stand.
And outside the line of infantry outposts lay a cavalry picket of twenty men of the Guides.
I gave their picket ropes a turn around convenient jack pines, and then slipping cautiously back to the tent, got my rifle and returned.
As darkness drew on, I went out to picket my horses and noticed that they were acting strangely.
These had been roasted in the fire until tough and flexible, and when thus treated they formed a good substitute for the white sailor's marline or the cow-boy's picket rope.
After going a half mile, and near the road running down the hill, east, and towards our approach, we saw at our right a picket stationed in a rail pile, put up in Chevron form.
Remained in camp there, and done picket duty until a few days prior to first Bull Run, when it was ordered on to Fairfax Station, in rear of advancing army.
Early in fall of '61, the Regiment built fort Woodbury, on Arlington, and done picket duty.
He was sent by McClellan to assist our cavalry in conducting the establishment of picket lines at New Bridge.
The army moved in the night, leaving picket line established.
The shot of the picket on our approach woke them up.
At one time, while our Regiment was doing guard duty, at above named place, picket firing was in order, with but little damage to either side, but very annoying.
If a picket guard showed his head it was a target as soon as seen.
He caught sight of her, paused a moment, and then vaulted stiffly over the picket fence into the yard.
He came to a long stretch of wooden picket fence, beyond it a silver plaque of moon-splashed grass, the house all hollow-eyed and gaunt, like a thing watching.
A well-trodden mud path led down to the river, on the far side of which was the water-picket commanding the approach, not to a ford, but to the only spot where impenetrable jungle did not prevent access to the river.
So hot was the Boer attack that before help could come every man save one of the picket was on the ground.
At half-past three in the morning, well before daylight, the mounted infantry picket at the junction of the roads from Landmans and Vants Drifts was fired into by the Doornberg commando, and retired upon its supports.
The war correspondent, like Providence, is always with the big battalions, and there never was a campaign in which there was more unrecorded heroism, the heroism of the picket and of the vedette which finds its way into no newspaper paragraph.
It was found that De Wet himself had been among those who had got away through the picket lines on the night of the 23rd.
The Berkshires under Major McCracken seized the hill, driving a Boer picket off it, and the Horse enfiladed the enemy's right flank, and after a risky artillery duel succeeded in silencing his guns.
A picket of the Buffs was captured at the first rush, and the detachment lost six killed and nine wounded.
Where every culvert needs itspicket and every bridge its company, the guardianship of many hundreds of miles of rail is no light matter.
A picketat the farther end of the street would have barred Steyn's escape.
With a squadron of Imperial Light Horse and a squadron of Natal Carabineers he rode on until, in the gathering twilight, the Ladysmith picket challenged the approaching cavalry, and the gallant town was saved.
How fierce was the storm which had broken on the New Zealanders may be shown by their roll of twenty killed and forty wounded, while thirty dead Boers were picked up in front of their picket line.
Steps and the sound of voices floated across the picket fence.
He noticed dully the double row of maples from which yellowed leaves were already beginning to fall and the ugly fronts of houses, behind their shabby picket fences.
At this point in her meditations Mrs. Black became aware of an insistent voice hailing her from the other side of the picket fence.
She was standing near Mrs. Black's boundary picket fence, shielded from the observation of the joyous groups about the little tables by the down-dropping branches of an apple-tree.
Riding up to a picket post near Nashville, dressed in full Federal uniform, he sharply reproved the sentinel on duty for not calling out the guard to salute the officer of the day, as he announced himself to be.
General Ord will leave behind the minimum number of cavalry necessary for picket duty, in the absence of the main army.
The picket lines were within a few hundred yards of each other.
He crossed the creek almost unobserved, and captured the picket of over forty men on guard near by.
At five o'clock Hazen landed at Brown's Ferry, surprised the picket guard, and captured most of it.
Torbert's division of cavalry was left north of the Rapidan, for the time, to picket the river and prevent the enemy from crossing and getting into our rear.
When I came to the camp of the picket guard of our side, I heard the call, "Turn out the guard for the commanding general.
Here a few boats were landed, the troops debarked, and a rush was made upon the picket guard known to be at that point.
After the recapture of the batteries taken by the Confederates, our troops made a charge and carried the enemy's intrenched picket line, which they strengthened and held.
There was a picket station of the enemy on the opposite side, of about twenty men, in full view, and we were within easy range.
I guess I'll have to leave you here," said Mr. Doggett, lifting the latch of the gate in the high picket fence that ran along the back of the James garden and orchard.
Quietly leading their horses inside the picket line, they unpack the kitchen, mule and blanket ponies.
Knapp giving orders to allow no one to pass the picket lines.
Leaving them, he is challenged by the picket guard and, passing in, reports himself to the officer of the day.
Then the slackening of the fire denotes the withdrawing of the one party, and the more distant picket firing that the work was accomplished.
Night comes on, and with silent, stealthy steps, a force advanced along the Tennessee, taking prisoners nineteen out of twenty men who were on picket duty.
He had come to a thinly built part of the town, the perfect quiet of which made the sound he heard as he opened the picket gate of his own home all the more startling.
But the other two, seeing the oncoming of the prisoners, ran out of the gate of the picket fence, uttering loud cries as they went.
The fur posts of the sub-arctics are not imposing with picket fences in place of stockades, for no French foe was feared here.
A High Ordeal I was on picket duty, and it was just after midnight when the men ahead fell back reporting strange sounds all along the front.
I went to where I saw a picket posted, and noticed a body of men.
He never ate a mouthful of food on the journey except the grass he could pick within the length of his picket rope.
With more or less difficulty he would be conducted to a picket rope outside and fastened there.
This same day there was sharp picket firing along the whole front of my infantry line, arising, as afterward ascertained, from a heavy demonstration by Anderson.
The pursuit was kept up for some three miles beyond the point where the picket guard had been captured, and after nightfall Sherman returned to camp and reported to me by letter what had occurred.
We had to picket the burros out, to graze, at first, or they might have gone back to town.
Major Henry and Jed Smith were not getting any supper yet, because they were still on picket duty.
They like to forage about for themselves, and usually will eat more and better grass than when tied by a picket rope.
In a moment, a staff officer from General Merritt dashed up with orders to take the entire brigade to the support of the picket line.
Vinton, of the Sixth Michigan was in command of the picket line and promptly rallying on his reserves, he courageously met Lee's attack and checked it.
Stuart's cavalry performed comparatively but little picket duty, and was kept back in comfortable quarters, recruiting and fitting for the coming spring campaign.
The Reserve brigade which on the night before received the order to make a reconnoissance in the morning was held to support the First brigade and had "advanced as far as the picket line.
Footnote 38: The only order I had received at the time was to support the picket line with the entire brigade.
This brigade had advanced in the execution of its reconnoissance to the picket line, and subsequently acted for a short time with the First brigade in repelling the attack of the enemy, feebly made on that part of the field.
The duty performed was to picket the left flank of the army, the Michigan regiments connecting with Crawford's division of the Fifth corps.
The line of videttes was thrown out across the stream, connecting on the left with the infantrypicket line and on the right with Custer's cavalry pickets.
The clause is as follows: "The First brigade was at once ordered to the support of its picket line.
That night we camped beyond Warrenton and had the first taste of picket duty.
The First brigade was at once ordered to the support of its picket line, while the Reserve brigade, which had the night before received orders to make a reconnoissance on the Middle road, was ordered to halt and await further orders.
Custer was already there, having been transferred from right to left while the two brigades of the First division were out on the picket line.
The cavalry picket line was twenty-five miles long, and it was no child's play to serve as field officer of the day, when every picketpost and every vidette had to be visited at least once each twenty-four hours.
He was wary, untiring, vigilant, bold, and no federal trooper ever went on picket without the feeling that this man might be close at hand watching to take advantage of any moment of unwariness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picket" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
