Literary notes about sentry (AI summary)
In literature, the word "sentry" frequently denotes a figure of watchfulness and protection, serving both literal and symbolic roles. It is often used to describe a guard stationed at a boundary or entrance, as seen in accounts of military duty and castle defenses ([1], [2], [3]). At times it becomes a confined space, such as a sentry-box crafted from natural elements or architecture, emphasizing isolation and vigilance ([4], [5], [6]). The term also ventures into metaphorical territory, characterizing someone or something that stands as a protector or a silent witness to unfolding events ([7], [8]). Whether featured in dramatic confrontations or subtle moments of everyday duty, "sentry" encapsulates the dual themes of security and solitary vigilance throughout various narrative landscapes ([9], [10], [11]).
- Deshuttes and Varigny, the two sentry Bodyguards, are trodden down, are massacred with a hundred pikes.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle - As I gained my feet I was confronted by the sentry on duty, into the muzzle of whose revolver I found myself looking.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs - The sentry, who was relieved every two hours, marched up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - Grimaud had made himself a kind of sentry box out of a hollow willow, and as they drew near he put his head out and gave a low whistle.
— from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - All the roofs are bordered with machicolations, parapets, guard-walks, and sentry-boxes.
— from English Villages by P. H. Ditchfield - The pointsman lay asleep near his sentry box, and the sun was blazing full on his face.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - He was a perpetual sentry in the corner.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville - Man may, in effect, be said to look out on the world from a sentry-box with two joined sashes for his window.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville - The night after that battle he was sentry at the door of a general who carried on a secret correspondence with the enemy.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - “And will you engage not to do any harm to the sentry, except as a last resort?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - His last whisper on his death-bed was an inquiry as to whether there was a Hessian sentry at his door.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call by Charles Dalton
