Lexic.us

Definition of Sentry go

1. Noun. The duty of serving as a sentry. "He was on guard that night"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sentry Go

Literary usage of Sentry go

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
""sentry go!"* MANY years ago I was serving as a captain in the noth Regiment. At the period of my story we were quartered at D , a fortress of considerable ..."

2. A College Man in Khaki: Letters of an American in the British Artillery by Wainwright Merrill (1918)
"I was doing sentry go: it was ten o'clock and after. I had been challenging the privates who were entering, when suddenly there appeared, approaching me ..."

3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"Day on, day off, on sentry go ... stops my breath, And orders me off duty— To where all show, both high and low, And where there 's no more sentry go ! ..."

4. Between the Lights: And Other Verses by Will Lawson (1906)
"They gave her every scrap of draught, For it meant life if she Could pass those cruisers, drowsing so, Upon their sleepy sentry-go. ..."

5. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"standing sentry, sentry duty, sentry go; ... to post a sentry: sentry go; monter la , to go on sentry or post, to prendre la , to go on post; walk post, ..."

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