The firing presently ceased, and from some mounted officers the intelligence was communicated that General Couch's division was now immediately upon our front, and that our pickets were in correspondence with his.
An endless fusillade and shouting maintained the spirit of the warriors; and at night, even if the firing slackened, the pickets continued to exchange from either side volleys of songs and pungent pleasantries.
The German pickets were close set and visited by a strong patrol; and on his return, his party was observed and hailed and fired on by a sentry.
While they were yet in his house a bullet passed overhead; and out of his door they could see the Tamasese pickets on the opposite hill.
The next morning he was accosted "about breakfast-time" by two natives who stood leaning against the pickets of a public-house, where the Siumu road strikes in at right angles to the main street of Apia.
They were met outside the pickets by a flag of truce from Ladysmith, but no sooner had the parties separated, and before the British could reach the pickets, than the Boers fired upon them.
Scarcely a day passes without the outlying pickets being fired upon.
He ordered a quantity of poles or pickets to be cut very long, and made a kind of fort of them round his own tent.
Armed pickets are stationed at the open centrals of the snares.
We crawled through the grass like snakes the whole way, until we had gone around the outer wall and were fairly out of sight of pickets and lookouts.
It was close up to this ridge that the lost pickets had been stationed.
The unusual stir in the Brownie camp was seen by the pickets on the outer barricades, and they at once gave the alarm, thinking that a night attack was to be made.
Bruce had ordered the Brownie pickets to keep the matter from their foes, and no breath of the good news could be gathered from them.
The picketshad been driven in, and the outer line of works captured.
These pickets were ordered to keep moving the whole night, thus keeping strict guard upon the Pixies at the points whence they were most likely to make a sally or seek to escape.
Then why the pickets didn't you stay and carry baggage for the 39th Native Infantry, instead of running all round the camp?
Little Toomai was just going to sleep, too, when he heard the coir string snap with a little "tang," and Kala Nag rolled out of his pickets as slowly and as silently as a cloud rolls out of the mouth of a valley.
They will dance, and it behooves thy father, who has swept all the hills of all the elephants, to double-chain his pickets to-night.
A few days later Colonel Jones was ordered to take charge of the pickets posted on the Rapidan, but before reaching Orange a gentleman rode up at full speed and informed them that the enemy were in possession of that town.
Back of the pickets was a well-kept green lawn; and set in the center of a circle of glorious elm trees was a comfortable white house with green blinds and a wide porch.
But before morning we were aroused by shots, and immediately afterward one of the mounted pickets came galloping into camp with the announcement that there were Indians close at hand.
The enemy's pickets were captured, and Lookout Creek bridged.
He had doubled his pickets on Saturday, thus carefully guarding himself against the possibility of a surprise.
Just before it were the rebel pickets in close proximity to those of the national army; indeed, both drew water from a creek which was the dividing line between them.
The rebel pickets were within easy range, and no fires could be built.
The enemy believed it was only a holiday pageant, and their pickets leaned on their muskets, and watched the brilliant movement.
At five o'clock in the morning the regiment Prentiss had sent out engaged the advance pickets of the rebels, which Beauregard declares was the commencement of the fight, when Johnston gave orders to begin the movement.
All night long the rebel pickets fired, and the groans of the wounded and the dying mingled with the howls of the storm.
Twigs are wattled between thepickets like ordinary basket-work, and fastened at the ends by withs or packthread.
It is made by driving into the ground, in a circular form, a number of small pickets about an inch in diameter, and of the length required for the gabion.
Our pickets are just this side of town; very warm and sultry; are in the shade.
Lieutenant Clark from the sharpshooters called on me this afternoon; pickets came in about 4 o'clock.
It's rumored our pickets were driven in last night at Harper's Ferry.
Grant; sent in another application to go before General Silas Casey's board this evening; thepickets returned to-night.
English and French, enemies all, crouched to the palisades against the common foe, with sword-thrust for the hands catching at pickets to scale the wall and volleying shots that scattered assailants back.
Radisson, target for arrows or shot, long hair flying and red doublet alight in the flare of the torches, was standing on top of the pickets with his right arm waving a sword.
The example was a grewsome one and not pleasant to relate; but it proved effectual, for it practically ended the shooting of our pickets from that time.
George Taylor and myself were stationed as pickets upon the main Clinton Road.
We had not been in Baton Rouge long before it become a common practice for the enemy to steal upon out pickets and shoot them.
The herds of the different companies were browsing on the hillsides half a mile away, strong pickets being thrown out in their front, and each herd guarded by a sergeant and party from its own company.
We grope out in the darkness, and post our pickets in hollows and depressions, where, should the bivouac be approached over the distant ridges, they can best observe objects against the sky.
Captain Hayes and I are detailed as officers of the guard and picketsfor the night, and take ourselves off accordingly.
We post strong guards and pickets to prevent surprise, and scatter our horses well out over the hillsides to pick up all they can.
Drawing in for the night, we post strong pickets well out in every direction, but they are undisturbed.
Here it was absolutely dark, and nothing moved but pickets of soldiers and Red Guards grimly intent.
Day broke, and the pickets of Kerensky's Cossacks came in touch.
Smith and I crept down behind a fringe of trees that lined the river-bank, to the very point selected for the new bridge, where we sat for some time, seeing the rebel pickets on the opposite bank, and almost hearing their words.
I kept pickets well out on the roads, and made myself familiar with all the ground inside and outside my lines.
Early in the morning I came in with the rear-guard, the enemy advancing his picketsand main guards only, and making no effort at all to press us.
He reached the station, found the pickets had been captured as reported, and that a company of infantry sent by the brigade commander had gone forward in pursuit of some cavalry.
Each corps kept strong pickets well to the rear; but, as the rumors of Johnston's accumulating force reached us, General Grant concluded to take stronger measures.
Next day he pushed M'Cottry and Conyers over the river, and recommenced shooting Watson's pickets and sentinels.
Pickets seem to crop up everywhere; on one bus ride to London, a journey of twenty miles, I have been asked to show my pass three times, and on a return journey by train I have had to produce the written permit on five occasions.
Wankin is eternally in trouble, although his agility in dodging pickets and his skill in making a week's C.
Some time ago the pickets allowed the men to see their sweethearts off, but as many youths abused the privilege and took train to London when they got on the platform, these kind actions have now become merely a pleasing memory.
Brent, neglecting the precaution enjoined by Martin, posted his guard only one or two hundred yards from the encampment of the dismounted men and extended his pickets but a short distance further.
On the next morning--the 2nd--the officer commanding pickets on the Huntsville road, reported that a train of wagons was approaching.
My guide had run away when the pickets fired on us, and I could only watch the movements of the enemy and let mine be dictated by circumstances.
Pickets say the force of enemy must be two thousand.
I had placed no pickets after the regular detail had been withdrawn upon the march of the column, and nearly all of the ten men left with me were in the court-house at the time by my side.
The noise of thepickets galloping up the road perhaps convinced them that reinforcements were arriving to us.
We noticed finally that they adopted a practice of withdrawing their pickets at night, from the points where they stood during the day, some miles to the rear.
The Major arranged the plan with Captain Morgan--the latter was to get, with his twenty men, in the rear of the pickets on post, and then fire a gun.
The column was moved forward at a gallop, as soon as the pickets were disturbed, and turned in the direction of Walton; the rear company, however, being carried at full speed to the assistance of Lieutenant Roberts.
He immediately set out to do so, leaving pickets to watch the Murfreesboro' pike.
General Bragg was falling back to Bryantsville, Colonel Morgan sent pickets to Harrodsburg; these soon sent word that the enemy had entered that place.
On the next morning, about three o'clock, the enemy dashed into the camp, the pickets giving no warning, and shot and rode over the men as they lay around their fires.
De mistress had pickets out in front of de house when de soldiers was in town.
You would see de pickets come in just a-flyin' and out sent de fresh pickets on duty.
The pickets opened fire on what they thought were 'Rebs', and found out to their distress that it was a bunch of recruits from our own lines.
The pickets were hurrying up from the river in every direction, firing their pistols to give the alarm.
We reached the west branch of the Shenandoah, near Strasburg, and went into camp for the night, having first put out pickets at the various fords up and down the river.
Now and then shots were exchanged between opposing pickets as they walked to and fro on the banks of the Potomac river that separated them.
They had crossed the river some distance below our pickets and had placed themselves directly in our rear, cutting off our retreat.
Pickets in the Confederate army always stood alone, as two or more would likely be absorbed in conversation and forget their duty.
Our pickets had also heard the firing, and came in to find out what the trouble was.
Stuart threw out his pickets across the fields, and just in front of us the enemy did likewise.
At night the lines came still closer together, and we could distinctly hear them relieving their pickets every two hours, and they doubtless could hear us doing the same.
The pickets were in full view of each other, and a long-range musket might have sent a bullet across the line at any time, but we did not molest each other.
One day our pickets reported "the enemy's cavalry advancing up the pike toward Upperville.
It was from this squadron that pickets were sent out and posted along the river.
General Meade being informed that a flag of truce was outside his pickets with a letter to me, at once sent out and had the letter brought in without informing the officer who brought it that I was not present.
These were colored cavalry, and are now holding our advance picketstowards Richmond.
Between four and five o'clock in the afternoon the enemy attacked and drove in his pickets and re-occupied his old line.
On the morning of the 7th, reconnoissances showed that the enemy had fallen behind his intrenched lines, with picketsto the front, covering a part of the battle-field.
When they got to our lines they at once took possession and sent our pickets to the rear as prisoners.
The last three days before arriving at Kelat we marched in order of battle, and had strong pickets at night, the whole force sleeping on their arms, and ready to fall in at a moment's notice.
Out-lying and in-lying pickets every night, the same as if we were in the presence of an enemy.
Meanwhile Sullivan's men, with Stark at the head, had routed the pickets on the other road in the same gallant style.
Early in the morning the pickets of Cornwallis' army discovered that something was wrong in the American camp; the guard had been withdrawn, the fires had been allowed to die away, and the place was as still as death.
I felt tempted to throw out pickets yet afraid not to obey implicitly.
He said no more for a minute or two, but listened to ourpickets calling their numbers one to another in the dark above us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pickets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
