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Sentences starting with guards

Guards were watching the harbour, and a band of Syrian horsemen had just passed from the barracks in the southern part of the Lochias to the Temple of Poseidon. [10]
Guards patrol the streams to prevent poaching it. [5]

Sentences ending with guards

Tomorrow our Emperor will send a St. George's Cross to the bravest of the French Guards. [2]
Have you been to the Horse Guards? [2]
I will watch the guards. [10]
He was on the ground floor and there were no guards. [5]
He felt now that merely by having been recommended to Prince Andrew he had already risen above the general who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the Guards. [2]
And Mr. Brinsmade tells me you were useful in many ways What was your rank in the Home Guards? [9]
They say this one is the commander of all the Emperor Alexander's Guards," said the first one, indicating a Russian officer in the white uniform of the Horse Guards. [2]
She had opportunities of sending her letters to the Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich, who commanded the Guards. [2]
It was a long journey, in a bumping car with had springs that rattled unceasingly, past the string of provost guards. [9]
But Dolokhov, who in Moscow had worn a Persian costume, had now the appearance of a most correct officer of the Guards. [2]

Short sentences using guards

Here, guards, seize this fellow! [10]
Off with him, guards! [10]
The guards drew around us. [5]
Ho, guards! [10]
Guards! [5]

Sentences containing guards two or more times

But the Guards, Rapp, the Guards are intact? [2]
Here are the aristocratic St. Louis Grays, Company A; there come the Washington Guards and Washington Blues, and Laclede Guards and Missouri Guards and Davis Guards. [9]

More example sentences with the word guards in them

Besides, for two years people have believed that we have abandoned these waters, and the guards think that if we should return, the last time to choose would be these bright nights. [10]
I suppose he would have called up his family, waked the drum-corps, sent for the Prefect of Police, put on the alert the 'sergents de ville,' ordered under arms a regiment of the Imperial Guards, and made it unpleasant for the Man. [4]
But the battle would have been lost without the guards and our troops. [10]
Presently there came word from the Governor that I might walk upon the ramparts, and I was taken forth for several hours each day; always, however, under strict surveillance, my guards, well armed, attending, while the ramparts were, as usual, patrolled by soldiers. [11]
Once in a while a detachment of the Home Guards, commanded by a lieutenant; would march swiftly into a street and stop before a house, whose occupants would run to the rear, only to encounter another detachment in the alley. [9]
Those floating freaks which were all top and drew nothing, were loaded down to the guards with army stores and animals and wood and men, --men who came from every walk in life. [9]
The Scythian guards, which at last put a stop to the frantic rage of the deluded populace, arrived too late to prevent the destruction of the house, but they saved Philotas and the other youths from the fists and stones of the rabble. [10]
At the gate, where every carriage was stopped, the guards asked her name. [10]
To speak of what would have happened had Napoleon sent his Guards is like talking of what would happen if autumn became spring. [2]
After the guards were relieved they had suddenly surrounded him, and, in spite of his vigorous resistance, would have taken him prisoner. [10]
The prisoners' guards were glad to stop, they were in no hurry. [10]
The Horse Guards were galloping, but still holding in their horses. [2]
You made your way past the guards to the senator's coach; you came across the lake, and through the darkness and the drunken rabble in the streets; if I were to lock you in, you would be brave enough to jump out of the window. [10]
Mr. Clarence Colfax was likewise on the boat, and passing Stephen on the guards, bowed distantly. [9]
From Moscow to Vyazma the French army of seventy-three thousand men not reckoning the Guards (who did nothing during the whole war but pillage) was reduced to thirty-six thousand, though not more than five thousand had fallen in battle. [2]
To make his victory the more secure, he stationed guards at the different fords and passages of the Jordan, with instructions to let none pass who could not say Shibboleth. [5]
His feelings found vent even as he came to the foot of the platform where he was to make his last stand, and the guards formed a square about the great pillars, glooming like Druidic altars. [11]
As he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress Boris and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance--that of a fighting hussar who had been under fire. [2]
One of my two brothers is already abroad, the other is with the Guards, who are starting on their march to the frontier. [2]
He had been to the hanging-gardens that morning early to visit Nitetis, but had been refused entrance by the guards, and the blue lily seemed now to offer him another chance of seeing and speaking to his beloved pupil. [10]
Did Cauchon hint to the English guards that thenceforth if they chose to make their prisoner's captivity crueler and bitterer than ever, no official notice would be taken of it? [5]
Sometimes it seems to me almost of the nature of a misdemeanor to be wandering about in the preserve which the fleshless gamekeeper guards so jealously. [6]
My object was to come out upon my guards as La Jongleuse, and, in the fright and confusion which should follow, make my escape through the corridors and to the entrance doors, past the sentinels, and so on out. [11]
The adjutant galloped to Claparede's division and a few minutes later the Young Guards stationed behind the knoll moved forward. [2]
I only wanted to ask because I fear the Guards won't be in action," he added as if in apology. [2]
At the same time they had to balk the hated chief of the city guards and his menials of their immediate prey; but they had played them a trick or two ere now. [10]
For a moment there was silence, and then the Commandant said, "Your guards have brought me word, Monsieur le Capitaine, that you are violent. [11]
Your heads for theirs, you guards, if they escape. [10]
Some were turning their coats inside out; for luck, said they; and putting on footman's leather guards to save their ruffles. [9]
Behind it was the wilderness of scrub, in which a fugitive would soon starve; in front was the narrow neck, with a cordon of chained dogs across it, and a line of lanterns, and a fence of living guards, armed. [5]
Now he leads the way, and points it out to the guards, and then in a moment he is close to us again. [10]
The gate of the scholar's house stood open, for an officer in the Regent's service had really entered a short time before, but the Scythian guards sent by the exegetus Demetrius, one of Barine's friends, were keeping back the throng of curious spectators. [10]
He then gave the password, "Auramazda, the helper and guide," and placed himself at the head of his guards, who went into the battle with wreaths on their tiaras. [10]
The gate of the palisade was now opened, and the captain of the guards allowed the prisoners to lie down on the glowing pavement within. [10]
I judged that the marks on the paper were an enchantment, and that the guards would not know what they were doing, nor have any memory of it afterward; and that was indeed the way of it. [5]
The last of the Horse Guards, a huge pockmarked fellow, frowned angrily on seeing Rostov before him, with whom he would inevitably collide. [2]
The officer of the Horse Guards went to a general with whom Ermolov was often to be found. [2]
You were in the Home Guards, if I remember right. [9]
The shouts of the guards, the rattling of the chain, his wretched companions in misfortune, nay, all that surrounded him, could not fail to recall the fate awaiting him. [10]
Uniforms flash upon the guards, for no campaign is complete without the military. [9]
As, protected by the guards, and probably watched by the governess and my brothers and sisters, I devoted myself to this amusement, my mother went down into the cabin to rest. [10]
On the right the Guards were entering the misty region with a sound of hoofs and wheels and now and then a gleam of bayonets; to the left beyond the village similar masses of cavalry came up and disappeared in the sea of mist. [2]
The captain of the guards perceived this and, touched by the horror of the man whose resolution had hitherto seemed peerless, called to him: "They don't all come home like that, no indeed! [10]
While some of the guards dragged the prisoners together, counted them, and tied them with ropes, their commander, with the others and his dogs, set off on the track of the fugitive. [10]
Perhaps so; since the guards did begin that policy at once, and no official notice was taken of it. [5]
They were holding the boat so close to the shore that the willows swept the guards almost from stem to stern. [5]
We find that the advance guards of winter are besieging the house. [4]
Some historians say that Napoleon need only have used his Old Guards, who were intact, and the battle would have been won. [2]
I felt sure that my guards without would, on such a day, relax their vigilance. [11]
She had heard that guards had been posted in all parts of the camp, with orders to sound the horn or strike the cymbal at the approach of the foe, until the men had flocked to the spot whence the warning first echoed. [10]
I will see that all the guards are away, so that he can come without danger, stay one hour and talk over the future with you; but remember, only one hour. [10]
And Napoleon, shedding tears before his Old Guards, renounced the throne and went into exile. [2]
The atrium, usually swarming with guards, servants, and officials until a far later hour, was completely deserted when the blind man hurried through it with his friend. [10]
At last he succeeded in forcing a passage to the tomb, which he found surrounded on all sides by Roman lictors and the Scythian guards of the city, who, however, permitted him, as the architect, to pass. [10]
Syloson and Theopompus stopped the guards, and asked what their captive had done. [10]
At the door stand tall guards, as rigid as statues, dressed in rich and picturesque costumes, and bearing halberds. [5]
When Katuti first sounded her whistle he slunk to his post; he was challenged by no watchman, for the few guards who had been placed in the immediate vicinity of the pavilion, had all gone to sleep under the influence of the Regent's wine. [10]
The guards showed some uneasiness, but Ameni explained who he was. [10]
When she woke she asked for the other dress, but the guards refused to give it back. [5]
Meanwhile, your guards shall be changed. [11]
Presently the horsemen returned and placed themselves, ten and ten, as guards at each of the passages leading into the court. [10]
Telyanin for some reason had been transferred from the Guards just before this campaign. [2]
He was the prince; his special comrades were guards, chamberlains, equerries, lords and ladies in waiting, and the royal family. [5]
We have military possession of the railroad from Cincinnati to Lexington, and from Louisville to Lexington, and some home guards, under General Crittenden, are on the latter line. [7]
When Napoleon came out of the tent the shouting of the Guards before his son's portrait grew still louder. [2]
But I went one day through Saint Omer, with its beautiful church and little blue chateau, past the rest-camps of the big regiments of guards to a seaport on the downs, formerly a quiet little French town, transformed now into an ordered Babel. [9]
I gazed long on the river, and my guards, stoutly armed, stood near, watching me, and talking in low tones. [11]
True, he was often rudely interrupted by the captain of the guards, who vented his rage upon him. [10]
He pulled Stephen off the guards into an empty cabin. [9]
During the continuance of this debate no voice in the audience chamber was raised above a whisper; the courtiers and guards stood motionless at their posts, and the royal pair gazed mutely into vacancy as though lost in reverie. [10]
Passing behind one of the lines of a regiment of Foot Guards he heard a voice calling him by name. [2]
A young officer of the Horse Guards, Kutuzov's orderly, pleased at the importance of the mission entrusted to him, went to Ermolov's quarters. [2]
The principal attack of the Egyptians had been directed against the centre of the Persian army, where Cambyses commanded in person; and with such effect that the guards had already begun to give way. [10]
Stewards and guards of the Council, clad in red and white, with the crossed keys in silver embroidery on the shoulder, offered refreshments. [10]
The three parts of that army were sharply distinguished: Kutuzov's fighting army (with the Pavlograds on the right flank of the front); those recently arrived from Russia, both Guards and regiments of the line; and the Austrian troops. [2]
The weak thread of his patience broke, and in a fearful passion he commanded the guards to behead me at once. [10]
Here were ranks of guards in shining armor and with polished halberds; two sides of the hall were like flower-gardens for variety of color and the magnificence of the costumes; light streamed upon these masses of color from two hundred and fifty flambeaux. [5]
Neither the upper nor the lower tusks appear to have been specially modified to act as guards, though no doubt they are to a certain extent used for this purpose. [1]
People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo. [5]
The youth had no ill to fear from her, so grasping her hand, he whispered that he had escaped from his guards and come to ask counsel from her mistress and herself. [10]
But fortunately the musicians, among them Barbara and Wolf, had just come out into the street, and the latter had told the sergeant of the guards, whom he knew, how mistaken he had been concerning the suspicions pedestrian, and obtained his release. [10]
It was two mornings later that Judge Whipple and Stephen drove to the Iron Mountain depot, where they found a German company of Home Guards drawn up. [9]
In an instant more she had torn her way out of the press, and past the guards, and was at his side. [5]
The servant, or more properly, Orderly-Sergeant Gosse, late of the Scots Guards, departed on his errand, glancing curiously at his master's face as he did so. [11]
We sent a messenger flying to Joan, and we and the French guards halted the procession for a parley--to gain time, you see. [5]
The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov Guards with the rank of cornet. [2]
When the great Memphis packet bore down upon him, he had, been seen from her guards, and rescued and made much of; and set ashore at the next landing, for fear her captain would get into trouble. [9]
He might fence me about with what guards he chose, but I prayed him to let me walk upon the ramparts, when I was strong enough to be abroad, under all due espionage. [11]
The Guards had made their whole march as if on a pleasure trip, parading their cleanliness and discipline. [2]
There was a little putting up of guards on the part of the ladies. [4]
She clouded up like storm; she called for her guards, and said: "Hale me these varlets to the dungeons. [5]
The only thing left for the captain of the guards to do was to report what had occurred at the first fortress on the Etham border, which the prisoners were obliged in any case to pass, and toward this they were now driven. [10]
Bartja was to lead the regiment of mounted guards numbering a thousand men, and that division of the cavalry which was entirely clothed in mail. [10]
A thin young lad, an hussar of the Life Guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window sill, leaned over, and looked down. [2]
The human asserted itself, and came in, overwhelming his guards and his barriers like a strong flood in the spring-time of the year, breaking down all artificial contrivances. [4]
The older man, it is true, could never have overtaken the swift-footed youth, but the youngest and most active guards had been sent after the fugitive. [10]
The guards were in their places, the rack was there, and by it stood the executioner and his aids in their crimson hose and doublets, meet color for their bloody trade. [5]
Erasmus was still in the hands of the town guards, and perhaps it would be possible for the former to withdraw the prisoner from ecclesiastical jurisdiction. [10]
He had served in the Guards, and did not lack courage. [9]
The governor rode in state, attended by his guards, and the news of it went everywhere, and made a great sensation, and modified the scoffings of the people of quality and raised Joan's credit higher than ever. [5]

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