Example Sentences

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So much he meant to be understood; so much he meant to carry out, and an armed party from the Adams was to have garrisoned on the morrow the scene of the atrocity. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Our troops have garrisoned both since 10 o'clock; it is now noon.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand

So much he meant to be understood; so much he meant to carry out, and an armed party from the 90 Adams was to have garrisoned on the morrow the scene of the atrocity.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

New words came into our vocabularies the origins of which sometimes go back to the many countries that British forces have garrisoned over the last three centuries.

From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by Cox, John

Various people are claiming the right to rebuild the line, and refuse to give up the sections they have garrisoned.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)