Last time, with the sun shining brilliantly from a cloudless sky and the French sentries along the line waving enthusiastically, we passed cheerfully through the pleasant land of France towards our destination on the frontier.
But now it is midwinter, the second winter of the war, and the French sentries no longer wave to us, for they have seen too many train-loads of English troops to be more than mildly interested.
Technically, of course, responsibility for the custody of the patients rests with the Germans, since they have posted sentries at the hospital and in the town.
The sentries slowly got so accustomed to this game that they never troubled to look when the roller team gave their Indians' war-whoop.
A glance round at the other sentries satisfied me that the other 'feint attacks' were drawing the enemy.
For each one of the several sentries who guarded the camp, a few officers and men were told off.
The sentries had long got accustomed, to these noises (for they occurred every night), a fact which was extremely favourable to our design.
Arrived at the fort we were put in separate rooms, which were heavily barred, and double sentries were posted at the doors.
The sentries were told to keep a sharp eye on me, and as I was conspicuous on account of my height, all eyes were turned on me as soon as I appeared anywhere in the camp.
Even if there were two sentries we should have no difficulty in overpowering and tying them up and then flying away before the alarm was given.
In this way the sentries got the impression that there was no objection on the commandant's part to the drain, and they suspected nothing when the prisoners worked at it again a few weeks later.
Particularly during the first months of my captivity I often heard the sentries say, when I came near the barbed wire, 'Look out!
During this day the battalion had been moved to the same spot upon which the laager was encamped: several pickets were furnished round the prisoners, and sentries placed on the roads leading in and out of the pass.
The battalion furnished a cordon of sentries round the Boer camp that night; they were relieved next day by the Bedford regiment, whom we found in camp next to us.
The calls of the sentries mingled at intervals with the roar of the hot springs let flow for the night.
The lights in the windows were beginning to go out; the sentries on the fortress-rampart and the Cossacks in the surrounding pickets were calling out in drawling tones to one another.
In the meantime she succeeded in crying out, the sentries took the alarm, fired, but wide of the mark; and thereupon we arrived on the scene.
Something was afoot, for doubled sentries held all points of vantage along the cliff-tops, doubled sentries guarded the fort gates, and the barbed wire entanglements at certain other places.
So far as I can see, my only chance of escape is to make thesentries drunk.
And one ob de sentries goes in every five minutes and feels to see if de ropes are tight.
The first thing would be, of course, to make the sentriesdrunk if possible.
There were no sentries placed here, for there was no fear whatever of an attack, and he had little difficulty in making his way round to the back of the village to the spot where Vincent was confined.
A few sentries were walking up and down in front of it, but they crawled round these and passed through the space between the regiment and that next to it.
Dey go round two or three times in de night to see dat de sentries are awake.
In that case how would he manage to approach him, and what means would he use to direct the attention of the sentries in another direction?
It was the vigilance of the sentries that he most feared, and the possibility that, as soon as the fact of his being missing was known, a cordon of guards might be stationed outside the wall in addition to those in the yard.
However, the noise was so slight that they had little fear of attracting attention, especially as the sentries would be standing in their boxes, for the rain was now coming down pretty briskly.
Most attended service again in the evening, for there were sentries round the church; but the heat was so extreme I felt unequal to going.
In utter silence the sentries maintained a vigilant look-out, while their comrades either dozed fitfully or lay awake, shivering with cold, and on thorns of expectancy for the night attack.
There was a fair chance of being able to pass the captive through the Spanish Lines without detection, especially as it was now close upon dawn and the sentries apt, in consequence, to relax their vigilance.
I complimented him upon the manner in which the Confederate sentries do their duty, and said they were quite as strict as, and ten times more polite than, regular soldiers.
Sentries were placed at the doors of many of the best houses, to prevent any officer or soldier from getting in on any pretence.
Sentries were placed at the doors of all the principal houses, and the town was cleared of all but the military passing through or on duty.
At the head of the stairs weresentries and an officer of the guard, all in police uniform, and they saluted my artillery guide with all the precision of regulars.
The sentries still paced the streets at the corners above and below us.
Two squares farther down towards the cathedral we could see the other sentriespacing to and fro.
Young as she was she realized that that ring ofsentries about her could mean but one thing.
A deliberate ring of silent sentries had formed themselves about her, almost in the twinkling of an eye.
It was evident that the French sentries took us for a hostile crew.
A battery placed in advance of the camp was therefore turned towards the river, and sentries were walking on the top of the bank.
In a great semicircle of over twenty miles, girdling the city north, east and south, the outposts and sentries of the two divisions kept watchful eyes upon the Insurgent forces surrounding them.
I s'pose you'll release my sergeant and thosesentries now.
Canker grumblingly obeyed so far as the sergeant and sentries were concerned, but entered stout protest as to Gray.
Presently he came sauntering back, and both sentries within easy range would have sworn he was chuckling.
The Count and his guide forced their way with some difficulty through the crowd up to the prison, in front of which several sentries were posted.
Sentries were posted round the house, to watch over the safety of this chief, and no one entered the house, except two unknown horsemen.
Then they have not posted a line of sentries on the heights?
It is clear enough, I fancy: suppose the Puros have placed a line of sentries on the heights, our project will be thwarted, and our expedition rendered fruitless.
They then entered the palace, leaving behind them the sergeant and two sentries in a state of the utmost surprise.
Brian ordered his men to give quarter to all the Scots who would accept it, if they got inside the castle, and as they marched forward through the darkness he found to his delight that O'Donnell seemed to have no sentries out.
It had indeed been a strange two days for him, thought Brian as he roused up the camp late the next morning and set out sentries in the hills.
These, as nearly as he could tell, were still shattered in; there were fires in the courtyard, and sentries were on the wall, but their watch was lax and the two below were not discovered.
Set out sentries against an attack from O'Donnell, and scatter a score of men out along the roads to watch for other parties.
A battery placed in advance of the camp was therefore turned toward the river, and sentries were walking on the top of the bank.
Captain of Skirmishers (rushing in to seize picket sentries of the enemy).
He felt he was becoming a tactical soldier as he sent a lance-naik to go the round of the sentries and bid them stand fast until the rear-guard had disappeared into the jungle, when they were to rejoin it.
At night, however, the animals were housed and sentries posted as usual, for Thurstane feared lest the enemy might yet return and attempt a surprise.
The object was twofold: first, to keep sparks from lighting on the wagon covers; second, to hide the sentries from prowling archers.
Supposin' those sentries we passed back there were knocked out and two of us took their places and the other two then laid a trail leadin' here?
The sentries squibbed off their rifles, and then, reloading, began to blaze away into the Chilian encampment.
Capital, though not so good as that one higher up which is well guarded and where double sentries will always be posted.
He next visited every gate and the approaches to the citadel, where he was pleased to find that the sentries were unusually alert, and quite alive to the exigencies of the situation, without precisely knowing what they were.
The latter had barely time to recede into the darkness when the relief-guard, consisting of a corporal and two privates, came to the spot and the usual formality of changing sentries was gone through.
Two sentries walked up and down their long beats as quietly as if on parade.
The 17th had posted a line of sentries along the river's bank for a considerable distance.
In the middle of the night the sentries on the extreme flank of the outpost saw lights of varied colors which they thought were ships signaling to each other and approaching the shore.
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