I immediately sent Captain Grabiel Gonzalez to make certain who it was, and on the way he met a caracoa which was on sentinel duty.
They lie so near to Buyahen that the sentinel bells can be heard from one place to the other.
There were a few gulls floating each on its own image, as if asleep, and one great albatross soared slowly in the bright sky, as if acting the part of sentinel over the resting sea.
The sentinel was taken completely by surprise, but drew his sword nevertheless, and sprang at Sam with a shout.
As far as they could see, only one sentinel paced the deck.
The old jutty, which had advanced so boldly for years, like a valiant sentinelkeeping watch before this wing of the castle, presented a most deplorable appearance.
The sentinel had just walked up the corridor once more slowly and dreamily, when he suddenly saw two men coming along.
Even the sentinel pacing the long, deserted corridor, trod more softly and crossed himself every time he reached the end of the passage.
I am a sentinel here, and must not desert my post.
Now, as I am an honest fellow, and, owing to my lame leg, cannot serve the country in any other way than watching this prisoner, I shall stay here as a sentinel and take good care not to desert.
I asked the sentinel in the passage outside where I would find you, as I had to see you on important business.
A sentinel must never leave his post, or he will be called a deserter, and Mr. Wallner always told me that that was a great disgrace for an honest fellow.
Well, good-by, Schroepfel; the sentinel will be relieved to-night.
The officer in command, struck by the earnestness of his prayer, promised to lend him all possible assistance, and placed a second sentinel for his support close behind him.
One day, not the writer only, but all the prisoners in the same building, and even the sentinel at the gate heard distinctly a great disturbance and the rattling of chains in a cell exclusively appropriated to murderers.
He had no news to bring her beyond the fact that their sentinel on the heights reported a sail to westward, beating up towards the island before the very gentle breeze that was blowing.
The whole guard were snoring upon their benches, the officer was in his well warmed little room slumbering amidst his wine flasks, and even the sentinel without, leaned nodding upon his halberd.
Suddenly he heard the burgher sentinel hail some one, and immediately afterwards Hanslein stepped into the officers' quarters, wrapped in a mantle.
The young blockade runner now had a theory that the sentinel boats of the Indians would keep close in to the shore.
Two will keep watch, and as I have had the most rest I'll be sentinel until about one in the morning, and then Tom can take my place.
It said that as proof of their power they had taken his sentinel and they warned him again not to harm the prisoner.
Up at the far corner of the palisade a sentinel was walking back and forth, his rifle on his shoulder, and at the other end another was doing likewise.
The second sentinel had fired with good aim, so far as the canoe was concerned, as his bullet went through the upper part of it, but he could catch only glimpses of the figures behind it, and they were untouched.
An ordinary scout or sentinel would have turned back, satisfied that nothing was to be found, but Henry entered the woods and proceeded carefully in the direction from which the sound had come.
I said to the sentinel in the tongue of the region of Yann, "Why are they all asleep in this still city?
A sentinel with a long white beard was standing in the gate, armed with a rusty pike.
I asked, after the sentinel had given me a pleasant greeting.
By this time, the sentinel who had confronted me had passed the word to the camp, and the soldiers were all under arms.
But Olotocara springing upon the platform ran the sentinel through with a pike, and when the frightened Spaniards rushed out they were met by French guns and Indian arrows, and knew that the time for vengeance was come.
Almost at that instant the chief and his few remaining wakeful companions laid themselves down to sleep, and the young warrior designated as the sentinel left the hut and came slowly toward the prisoner.
After consulting with the corporal, Pigeonswing was called; and leaving him as a sentinel at the gate, the two others made a sortie.
As the palisades were too high for his leap, this putting him at liberty within them answered the double purpose of giving the mastiff room for healthful exercise, and of possessing a most vigilant sentinel against dangers of all sorts.
What think you--shall we wait till the warriors are asleep, or try to be off before the sentinel comes?
While deliberating in painful uncertainty, the sounds of the struggle ceased, and he saw the sentinel rising again into the light, limping like one who had suffered by a fall.
As it was probable that the sentinel would take his station near the prisoner, the bee-hunter was at a loss to decide whether it were better to commence the flight before or after the rest of the savages were in their lairs.
There stood the Chippewa erect against the tree as if still bound with thongs, while the sentinel was slowly approaching him.
To ride up to the very stockade, of which the height prevented even a horseman being perceived from the house, though not from a sentinel on the enclosure, was no difficult task.
As the boats came close to a point on the bank a sentinel challenged, "Qui vive?
The French were expecting a convoy of provisions, and the sentinel called out, "Passe!
And then in a mocking tone, "I am afraid that the faithful sentinel will be in trouble when they find him here asleep.
He held his breath and nerved himself for the cat-like leap he was prepared to make as the sentinel came abreast, for he felt that it was impossible that the man could pass him without his being seen.
Some powder, only a little it was true, had been sent by the French to the town, and a share had been left at the house of the sentinel that night in the general distribution.
A sentinel with his musket on his shoulder stood at the door, and the sun was going down.
The sentinel is about to retreat to the shed when he discerns two female figures in the gloom.
The instant they reach it a sentinel springs up, challenging them.
A sentinel stands close to the ford, and beyond him is the ford- house, a shed open towards the roadway and the spectator.
III IN THE CAÑON Away back in the spring of '92 a wolver was "wolving" on the east side of the Sentinel Mountain that so long was a principal landmark of the old Plainsmen.
The sun had gone from the sky, and a blood-streak marked the spot where he died, away overSentinel Butte.
The wolver read the trail and the signs about, and remembering those he had read before, he divined that this was the Wolf with the great Cub--the She-wolf ofSentinel Butte.
Might is right in wolf-land, and Duskymane and his mother had been driven out of Sentinel Butte.
Another half hour's hard work and far ahead, as I rose to a broad flat plain, I had my first glimpse of the Big Black Wolf of Sentinel Butte.
Sentinel Butte, the rocky fastness of the plains, was claimed by many that were big and strong; the weaker must move out, and with them Yellow Wolf and the Dusky Cub.
We here have in view Pilot Rock, a great bare bluff that stands out and alone like a huge sentinel guarding the gateway of the valley, and famous in the early history of this locality as the scene of stirring Indian warfare.
The sentinel recoiled, and stared in dismay at the dark bundle.
Ten minutes later, the sentinel at the gate was amazed at the sight of the Chief Cabinet-maker's apprentice, reappearing suddenly before him, with his monstrous burden still in his arms.
Outside the gate a sentinel was pacing up and down, armed with pike and broadsword.
The sentinel bowed low, and undid the fastenings of the huge bronze gates.
Killian was there in his Sunday's best and looking very gaunt and rigid; a lawyer from Brandenau stood sentinel over his outspread papers; and the groom and the landlord of the inn were called to serve as witnesses.
A sentinel at the foot of the tower stairs presented arms; another paced the first landing; and a third was stationed before the door of the extemporised prison.
Strict charge was given to the new sentinel to fire his musket on the first approach of an enemy.
A sentinel was placed just on the border of the forest, and he was told to be very watchful against a surprise from the Indians.
Again they went to relieve guard, and again they found the sentinel dead and scalped as the one before him.
There stood the sentinel uninjured, and close at his feet lay a Red Indian dead.
