Literary notes about garrison (AI summary)
Authors employ "garrison" with layered meanings that traverse both the literal and metaphorical realms. In historical and military narratives, it denotes a group of troops stationed to fortify a place—as illustrated by descriptions of soldiers assembling or being deployed to secure Vicksburg ([1], [2]) or the Roman fortifications ([3], [4]). Biblical texts further utilize the term to signify the strategic positioning of forces to hold pivotal towns ([5], [6]), while other authors extend its usage to evoke notions of discipline, steadfastness, or even ironic commentary on personal comportment ([7], [8]). Additionally, the name "Garrison" has been adopted in political and activist writings to symbolize moral resolve and advocacy ([9], [10]), demonstrating the word's rich versatility across literary genres.
- At the appointed hour the garrison of Vicksburg marched out of their works and formed line in front, stacked arms and marched back in good order.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - If he should capture Chattanooga, Knoxville with its garrison would have fallen into his hands without a struggle.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - Famine had relaxed the strength and discipline of the garrison of Rome.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Forts were constructed in several parts of the country, and a Roman garrison was fixed in the strong town of Nisibis.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - And David was in a hold, and the garrison of the Philistines in Bethlehem.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - And the king took Bethsura: and he placed there a garrison to keep it.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - Dandoins stands with folded arms, and what look of indifference and disdainful garrison-air a man can, while the heart is like leaping out of him.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - With this I put my hand under his pillow; at which he gave a scream that might have called the whole garrison about my ears.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray - Dear Garrison :—I am very glad to see in your paper that Henry Ward Beecher avows himself a convert to the doctrine of woman's voting.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Rev. Channing, Rev. John Pierpont, Mrs. Rose, Lucy Stone, Frances D. Gage, Miss Brown, Mrs. Nichols.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) by Ida Husted Harper
