Example Sentences

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Here he was stationed during the French war, and shared in the perilous sentinelship of the frontier.

From Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by Stevens, George T.

But still his bowed form, stern in its sentinelship, guarded the something concealed behind the shadows.

From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson

While he had been watching Singleton and looking at the pictured face, Nan might easily have come into the house; for Lady McIntyre, too, had clean forgotten that side of her sentinelship.

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth

But this is a grave mistake, for coarseness will betray itself in spite of the most watchful sentinelship.

From Choice Readings for the Home Circle by Anonymous