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Example sentences for "barracks"

Lexicographically close words:
barouns; barque; barques; barraca; barrack; barracoon; barracoons; barracuda; barrage; barrages
  1. But the dirt of the men in the Benton Barracks surpassed any dirt that I had hitherto seen.

  2. This I say--that the degradation of men to the state in which I saw the American soldiers in Benton Barracks is disgraceful to humanity.

  3. The fortifications have been discontinued as useless, but the barracks and the prisons remain.

  4. The locality of Benton Barracks must, from its nature, have been the more healthy, but it had become by art the foulest place I ever visited.

  5. But Benton Barracks are outside the fair-green.

  6. The Barracks is a city built since the war on the hills above the town.

  7. To my surprise she said that she was the wife of the apothecary at the Barracks at Deutschbrod.

  8. There was a new catholic church, a barracks for the troops in garrison, an hospital, and a residence for the commandant.

  9. He erected huts for shelter; established a magazine for stores and provisions; and formed barracks for the soldiery, not on the highest point of the headland, but on the site of the recently destroyed parliament buildings.

  10. There were wooden, but not very extensive, walls around the barracks and the huts.

  11. They went back to Plattsburgh, re-embarked the troops, and proceeded to Swanton, Colonel Murray sending a detachment to Champlain to destroy the barracks and blockhouse.

  12. The stores in the fort were taken possession of, the fort itself dismantled, and the barracks were destroyed.

  13. The block-houses were demolished, the palisades beaten down, the guns dismounted, the barracks reduced to ruins.

  14. On their approach, McDougall set fire to the barracks and principal storehouses, and retreated about two miles to a strong post, commanding the entrance to the Highlands and the road to Continental Village, the place of the deposits.

  15. Having made one hundred and fifty-nine prisoners, among whom were three officers, Lee commenced his retreat, without tarrying to destroy either barracks or artillery.

  16. The disturbance lasted until a late hour of the night, and the military did not repair to their barracks until two or three o'clock the next morning.

  17. The Racket Court at the Cavalry Barracks erected by the Officers of the 10th Royal Hussars.

  18. The Cavalry Barracks were completed in 1795.

  19. Now to the Barracks flies the soaking chief, And calls for troops; assuming, bold and brief; I want some troops, to sergeant he did say At your peril dare to keep away!

  20. On the breaking up of this Camp many of the regiments remained in Barracks at Brighton.

  21. The home is a humble frame building which was used as a barracks by northern troops stationed in Atlanta after the Civil War.

  22. Storehouses were much wanted; the barracks were yet unfinished; houses were to be built for the assistant-surgeons, those which had been erected soon after our arrival being now no longer tenable.

  23. The barracks were begun early in March; but much difficulty was found in providing proper materials, the timber being in general shakey and rotten.

  24. The public works then in hand were, the barracks for the marine detachment; an observatory on the west point of the cove; the houses erecting for the governor and the lieutenant-governor; and the shingling of the hospital.

  25. The heavy rains also pointed out the necessity of sheltering the detachment, and until barracks could be built, most of them covered their tents with thatch, or erected for themselves temporary clay huts.

  26. At Sydney some chimneys in the new barracks fell in.

  27. The barracks for the troops appeared to be commodious, and to be kept in good order.

  28. The barracks at Rose Hill, being so far completed as to admit of being occupied, were taken possession of this month by the New South Wales corps.

  29. The Hessians' drums were beating to arms, and a company rushed out of the barracks to protect the patrol.

  30. Passing through the outer or common court, he entered by the second gate into the square surrounded by the barracks of the Janizaries, who, as the body guard of the monarch, occupied quarters abutting on those of the Sultan.

  31. He staggered up the hill from the landing to the barracks with the cry of conflict ringing through his soul.

  32. Several hundreds were gathered in a great square court, which was surrounded by barracks on three sides, and on the fourth faced the river Marissa.

  33. The rigid drill, the alert espionage, the raids along the border gave way to the indolence of the barracks and the pastimes of the camp.

  34. The square court within their barracks was transformed into a great prayer place of the dervishes.

  35. Constantine found himself arrayed before night in the costume of a subaltern officer of the imperial guard, and assigned to quarters at the barracks in the section of the city near to the house of the chamberlain.

  36. Selim's apartment was off from the common barracks of the Janizaries.

  37. Mesty hastened for the money, and taking it in a large bag to the monastery, delivered it to the friar's charge, and then returned to the barracks to Easy and Gascoigne.

  38. That Furness had deserted from the Marine Barracks at Portsmouth was evident; and if he had not, that he would have recognised Joey some time or other was almost certain.

  39. Dey put up wheh de barracks is on Reynolds Street.

  40. Round wheh de barracks is now, was de Baptis' parsonage.

  41. The Gate of Augustus, which now serves as the entrance to the barracks of the gendarmerie, is worthy of inspection.

  42. But," doubtfully, as she remembers how Monica refused with studied coldness to meet his parting glance at the Barracks a few hours ago, "do not be too sure of her coming.

  43. The very fact of her not answering convinces him her coldness at the Barracks was intentional, and his tone takes an additional sadness as he speaks again.

  44. Did you hear there is to be an afternoon dance at the Barracks next week?

  45. My aunts would be certain to look upon a dance in the Barracks as something too awfully dissipated.

  46. And you will go to the Barracks for this dance?

  47. But on Thursday evening it clears a little,--not sufficiently to allow one to wander happily through shrubbery or garden, but enough to augur well for the morrow, when the much longed for dance at the Barracks is due.

  48. A-hossback he come, all the way from the Barracks at Clonbree.

  49. Why, the way you treated that wretched young man to-day at Clonbree Barracks was, I consider, shameful!

  50. The barracks of Bonne-Nouvelle will contain about three hundred cavalry or about six hundred infantry.

  51. There are three different barracks in Rouen: the first is situated near the quai aux Meules at Saint-Sever, and contains about one thousand men.

  52. Hastily improvised barracks in large storehouses east of Montgomery street, fortified by hundreds of gunny sacks filled with sand, designated "Fort Gunney," was the quarters for committee and soldiers.

  53. A dozen stores, barracks and the hospital on the opposite side of the bay were the only objects of interest.

  54. There was no thought in his mind but that of his old comrades of the barracks at Strasburg, and of the night just beginning for them.

  55. All that they had learned in barracks and upon the field schooled them to this lust of blood.

  56. The opposite corner of the barracks was boarded off for a living-room.

  57. Once when Colonel Barker found troops moving, he discovered the village for which they were bound, rushed ahead in his automobile, and commandeered an old French barracks which would otherwise have been occupied by the American soldiers.

  58. It was in an old French barracks that they located the Salvation Army canteen in Treveray.

  59. As yet there were no barracks in which to confine the poor fellows, and the climate of Murray Bay is not too hospitable in winter.

  60. He had moved from barracks to barracks, dragging on his brutifying military life.

  61. Rougon, who now felt very conscious of his power, repaired to the Rue Canquoin to beg the gendarmes to remain in their barracks and interfere with nothing.

  62. The Town-Hall, the Civil Court, the Market, and the Gendarmerie barracks are situated here.

  63. The gendarmes, though their barracks were close by, could not even be warned.

  64. Tattoo sounded in the barracks opposite; vespers were being sung in the lodgment; fragments of the verses floated through the open window.

  65. From these observations it would seem as if for a time the South Raglan Barracks were in the exact centre of the storm, being left for varying periods in a complete calm in consequence.

  66. I like to see the barracks and hospitals.

  67. We reached Arklow in time for luncheon, and drove to the large police barracks there.

  68. They gave orders to move the unaffected people in every town and village into isolated barracks and stockades.

  69. Dal Timgar decided not to try to go to the barracks first.

  70. It would be nice, he thought wryly, if his reservations for sleeping quarters in the students' barracks might at least be honored, but now he wasn't even sure of that.

  71. Smith took advantage of the pause thus caused to tell them that unless they should retire instantly to their barracks he would fire upon them.

  72. Clive had returned from his demonstration against d'Auteuil, and, worn out and weary, had laid himself down to sleep in a caravanserai behind the smaller of the two pagodas occupied as barracks by his men.


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    Other words:
    bivouac; camp; encampment; lines; quarter