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Those who were not wanted for sentry-go that night took off their boots and most of their clothes.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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Those who were not wanted for sentry-go that night took off their boots and most of their clothes.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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Those who were not wanted for sentry-go that night took off their boots and most of their clothes.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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Of this guard ten were permanently on sentry-go on the four sides of the enclosure in the centre of which the school building stood.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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Of this guard ten were permanently on sentry-go on the four sides of the enclosure in the centre of which the school building stood.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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Of this guard ten were permanently on sentry-go on the four sides of the enclosure in the centre of which the school building stood.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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And yet, at long last when the authorities caught up with themself, it was discovered from the books in all those years not one guardmount, not one sentry-go had been shirked.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Garivald was on sentry-go when the Grelzer company strode into the forest Munderic's band of irregulars reckoned all their own.
Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002
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And yet, at long last when the authorities caught up with themself, it was discovered from the books in all those years not one guardmount, not one sentry-go had been shirked.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Close by the screen Jeendan was pacing to and fro, pausing from time to time to listen, then resuming her furious sentry-go - for she was in a great rage, and well advanced in liquor, by the look of her.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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