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Definition of Sentineling
1. sentinel [v] - See also: sentinel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sentineling
Literary usage of Sentineling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of by John McElroy (1879)
"... like giant watch-towers sentineling the gateway that the mighty waters of the
James had forced through the barriers of solid adamant lying across their ..."
2. Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell (1906)
"Against it, along the far pine-clad horizon, mesa after mesa in shaggy lines of
sentineling earth, stands forth dark marshaled in the gloom, informed with ..."
3. The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore (1906)
"... for all of them had the same weedy turnip-patch on one side, straggling tomatoes
on another, and half-dried mullein-stalks sentineling the corners. ..."
4. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains: Reminiscences and Thrilling Incidents of by John Wesley Clampitt (1888)
"... and brilliant gateway, and the lofty line of crags sentineling Mount Hawkins,
the explorers rapidly passed until they entered the waters of the White, ..."
5. Mary, Mary by James Stephens (1912)
"At other times she walked up the long line of quays sentineling the Liffey,
watching the swift boats of Guinness puffing down the river and the thousands of ..."
6. Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell (1906)
"Against it, along the far pine-clad horizon, mesa after mesa in shaggy lines of
sentineling earth, stands forth dark marshaled in the gloom, informed with ..."
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