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Guardhouse

noun

A military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained.

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"Guardhouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... was open except for two small buildings, one from its shape a chapel, and the other, as I learned later, the guardhouse. A fire blazed at the farther end of the enclosure, with a number of men lounging about it, and illumined the front of a more pretentious building, which apparently extended across that entire end. This building, ...

— Beyond the Frontier • Randall Parrish

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... arrested old Peter led his prisoner away through alleys and quiet streets—though for that matter all the streets of Clarendon were quiet in midafternoon—to a guardhouse or calaboose, constructed of crumbling red brick, with a rusty, barred iron door secured by a heavy padlock. As they approached this structure, which was sufficiently forbidding in appearance to depress the most lighthearted, the strumming of a banjo ...

— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt

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... he crossed the river and surrendered himself to General Price, with a request to be put on parole until the battle was ended. The Rebel commander gave him quarters in the guardhouse till the surrender took place. Mr. Wilkie was then liberated, and reached St. Louis with an exclusive account ...

— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

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