provost guard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of provost guard
An Americanism dating back to 1770–80
Example Sentences
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The provost guard drank the most of it.
From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous
A worried lieutenant found me in the crowd around the rolling kitchen and inquired: "Do you know whether there's a provost guard on that inn down the road?"
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Gibbons, Floyd
The tents of the provost guard pitched at the electric railway terminus at East End with pickets posted at various street corners made Falls Church appear like a town under martial law.
From A Virginia Village by Stewart, Charles Alexander
A provost guard was at once established, order inaugurated, and we awaited events.
From The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Flandrau, Charles E. (Charles Eugene)
I begged the commander of the provost guard, Captain Haslett, to allow him to get into an ambulance.
From Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 by Sprague, Homer B. (Homer Baxter)
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