"Sentry duty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pig-sty, he was compelled once more to appeal to Macgregor, who fortunately happened to be fairly flush. He expended the borrowed shilling on a cane and a packet of Breath Perfumers for himself, and for Christina a box of toffee which, being anhungered while on sentry duty the same night, he speedily devoured with more relish ...
— Wee Macgreegor Enlists • J. J. Bell
... collapse from self-depreciation when my humor came to the rescue. I might just as well have gone on and slept between Henrietta and the wall, as was becoming my feminine situation, for here my determination to assert my masculine privileges was keeping a real man doing sentry duty up and down a moonlight road all night—and ...
— The Tinder-Box • Maria Thompson Daviess
... right leg too," said Elaine, passing on to the next bed. "He was wounded on sentry duty. He'd been out since the beginning of the war, and had not had a scratch till then. And he'd been promised his leave the very next day. Hard ...
— A Patriotic Schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... on sentry duty was apparent from the eager looks that those below frequently cast up at him. At times, too, the general impatience sought relief in questions hurled ...
— The High School Freshmen - Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports • H. Irving Hancock |
