barrack-yard

The soldiers still continued the fight within the barrack-yard, and from the barrack windows; but they were so completely mixed with the townspeople, that the officers were afraid to order the men to fire from the windows, least they should kill their own comrades.

La Vend�e 2004

Thereupon the fiddler taking his bow and shouldering his fiddle, struck up in first-rate style the glorious tune, which I had so often heard with rapture in the days of my boyhood in the barrack-yard of Clonmel; whilst

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

So out of the barrack-yard, with something of an air, marched my dear brother, his single drum and fife playing the inspiring old melody,

Lavengro 2004

“God send it were over!” replied the other, as the gates of the barrack-yard were thrown back.

La Vend�e 2004

The colonel, as soon as he found himself in his own quarters, gave immediate orders that the gun should be wheeled round to the barrack-yard gate, which had hitherto been kept closed, and that the moment the gates could be got open it should be fired on the crowd.

La Vend�e 2004

Government path, I should say — that leads down into the barrack-yard.

Travels in West Africa 2003

The shield and spear dance, the knife dance, the dance of ambush, and the surprise dance, he learned them in the savage villages of the north, and he danced them in the barrack-yard, by the bonfire, at night, when the great doors were shut.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

He had the wild Indians from the north beat their drums in the barrack-yard, and start the old dances again.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Street, where they turned out "sisters" by the gross; had watched the squads in knickerbockers, scattered over the immense room, like recruits drilling in a barrack-yard: groups engaged in club-swinging, juggling, clog-dancing, all together, a tangle of different movements timed "one, two, three!"

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

The ponderous _pilum_, and the heavy, straight sword of the infantry were exchanged in the barrack-yard for drill-weapons of twice their weight; and so perfectly were the detail and regularity of actual service carried out in their daily discipline, that, as an ancient writer has remarked, their sham-fights and reviews differed only in bloodshed from real battles.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various