Leaving the new arrivals in the centre of the Saloon, the Sentinel advanced to a door, at the further end of it, which bore an inscription, painted on it in Doggee, "Royal Kennel--scratch and Yell."
Before doing this, the Sentinel turned to the children, and said "Give me your names."
The Englishman respectfully took her arm, and drew her out of the
sentinel's reach.
A single glance showed him that the
sentinel's post was still vacant and a moment later he and his burden were in the shadows of the hay dump.
Sentinels likewise were posted at the lodgings of the officers in many parts of the town.
This corridor was guarded, not by a
sentinel, but by a confidential servant, through whom, in case of urgency, Charles could communicate instantly with his faithful subject.
But Fouquet had recovered his breath, and, beckoning the
sentinel and the subaltern, who were rubbing their shoulders, towards him, he said, "There are twenty pistoles for the
sentinel, and fifty for the officer.
As Turan proceeded along the avenue he passed other sentries beside other doors but now he gave them small heed, since they neither challenged nor otherwise outwardly noted his passing; but while at nearly every turn of the erratic avenue he passed one or more of these silent
sentinels he could not guess that he had passed one of them many times and that his every move was watched by silent, clever stalkers.
The
sentinel awakes, sees what has happened, and gives himself up for lost.
You see, we are, too obviously within the
sentinels of the enemy; what course do you propose to follow?"
But he was stopped short by a presented musket and the cry of the
sentinel.
They rode through the village of Rykonty, past tethered French hussar horses, past
sentinels and men who saluted their colonel and stared with curiosity at a Russian uniform, and came out at the other end of the village.