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Example sentences for "strong guard"

  • A strong guard is placed there: but, except when it has been lately changed, the men do not annoy us.

  • Lawrence had been sent to the King by the Envoy, and he kindly procured a palkee, and sent Sturt home with a strong guard of fifty lancers, but they were obliged to make a long detour by Siah Sung.

  • We had a strong guard to prevent our escaping, and they demanded fresh relays of yaks and ponies and food for themselves at all the encampments, so that we travelled very fast.

  • Then the Jong Pen of Taklakot in Tibet, having been left unpunished for his last years' attack on Lieutenant Gaussen, has now a strong guard of three hundred men to prevent foreigners entering the country.

  • At Taklakot the news was confirmed, and I heard that Mr. Landor and two servants were brought back under a strong guard.

  • He was mistaken, but they took his poor wife up to see if they could make her discover where he was, and ordered a strong guard to bring her to Cork gaol.

  • From thence he was carried prisoner, under a strong guard, to Tam, and at last to Brahan, Seaforth's house.

  • He was sent, under a strong guard, to a neighboring island, till some measures could be taken respecting him.

  • The greedy eyes of the Conquerors gloated on the shining heaps of treasure, which were transported on the shoulders of the Indian porters, and, after being carefully registered, were placed in safe deposit under a strong guard.

  • Manco was arrested, brought back a prisoner to Cuzco, and placed under a strong guard in the fortress.

  • Let them be brought hither, drost; but heavily chained, and under a strong guard.

  • On reaching the palace they found the drawbridge occupied by a strong guard of landsknechts, and were obliged to dismount, in consequence of the number of people who blocked up the way.

  • A strong guard of soldiers having surrounded the captives, Drost Peter and his companions courteously saluted the governor, who returned to the drost the torn warrant, and accompanied them to the jetty.

  • He himself was conveyed under a strong guard to Adrianople.

  • They accordingly laid down their arms, and were put under a strong guard.

  • During that interval he had remained on board of the Monarque, a third-rate ship of war, anchored in the harbour of Portsmouth, under a strong guard, in custody of the marshal of the admiralty.

  • A strong guard-house is seen at the left, pierced for muskets to defend the entrance.

  • He left a strong guard at the battery on the creek, and concealed his troops in the thicket, a few rods in the rear.

  • Cornwallis left a strong guard there, which remained until after the battle of Princeton.

  • Sherman had made every preparation to abandon the railroad, leaving a strong guard in his intrenchments.

  • Louis was escorted to the lodgings he had chosen in the Castle, or Citadel of Peronne, by the Chamberlains and harbingers of the Duke of Burgundy, and received at the entrance by a strong guard of archers and men at arms.

  • Placing a strong guard on the approach to the crypt, Carew returned to the charge with the returning light.

  • He was instantly arrested, ironed, and conveyed to Dublin under a strong guard.

  • The native Englishmen in the House were extremely unpopular out of doors, and Hooker, one of their number, who sat for the deserted borough of Athenry, had to be escorted to his lodgings by a strong guard, for fear of the Dublin mob.

  • He was sent, under a strong guard, to a neighbouring island, till some measures could be taken respecting him.

  • The unfortunate trio were finally made prisoners of; they were disarmed, their hands bound together, and then left under a strong guard in the cow-house attached to the auberge.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strong guard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    detaining hand; eyes were; good tidings; more money; pound sugar; strong and; strong breeze; strong city; strong contrast; strong decoction; strong effort; strong enough; strong feeling; strong fire; strong force; strong impression; strong odor; strong opposition; strong point; strong position; strong presumption; strong solution; strong temper; strong tower; strongly heated; strongly keeled