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noun

Sentry n. (pl. sentires)

(Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

Guard; watch, as by a sentinel. "Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep."

Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.

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Etymology of 'Sentry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sentry" Quotes from Famous Books

... death; better to die as your mother died than to sink daily deeper in the mire of this pit of woman's degradation. But is escape conceivable? Your father tried; and you beheld yourself with what security his jailers acted, and how a dumb drawing on a rock was counted a sufficient sentry over the avenues of freedom. Where your father failed, will you be wiser or more fortunate? or are you, ...

— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson

... and the convalescent camp beyond whose outer gate I stood. Two flags on lances formed the gate and the boundary line was mostly imaginary; but one did not trespass, because at about the point where vision no longer pierced the mist there stood a sentry, and the grounding of a butt on gravel and now and then a cough announced others beyond ...

— Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders • Talbot Mundy

... nothing. Flinders, accompanied by Aken, went ashore, and the two were escorted to a large house in the middle of the town, the Cafe Marengo, where they were shown into a room approached by a dark entry up a dirty staircase, and left for the night with a sentry on guard in the ...

— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott

... leading to the rooms above. A sentry was slowly pacing the court, and gave Delme the necessary directions for finding George's room. Delme's hand was on the latch, but he paused for a moment ere he pressed it, for he pictured to himself ...

— A Love Story • A Bushman

... to the ingle-side, and, barring the door, saw that all was safe, it was now three in the morning; so we thought it by much the best way of managing, not to think of sleeping any more, but to be on the look-out—as we aye used to be when walking sentry in the volunteers—in case the flames should, by ony mischancy accident or other, happen to break out again. My wife blamed my hardihood muckle, and the rashness with which I had ventured at once to places where even masons and sclaters were ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir

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