Quotes About Guards

Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.

Do you recognize it? Ajay asked Will. Three other guards started performing exactly the same strange, convoluted, synchronized dance steps, and it spread until twenty of them were moving along, when Will realized: Thriller? Correct!

I continued to shower, in no hurry to join back up with the guards who waited for me. I wondered when and if I would see Lia again. Rafe wouldn't make it easy, especially now that he was— I shoved my head back under the water. I hadn't even gotten used to the idea of him being a prince, and now he was a blazing king.

The "layouts," men who refused to volunteer or to appear for service once drafted, were rounded up by guards who were crudely called "dog catchers." Substitutes came from the poorest class of men, and were generally despised by other soldiers.

What are guards but villagers doing a tiresome, temporary duty?

I could use you, training the Castle guards," offered the Reeve, "but I have to warn you that the last man to hold the post of captain quit." The guard's eyebrows rose. "I wouldn't have thought that Castle guards would be that difficult." "They're not," returned Kerim. "My lady mother, however is.

How did there get to be 'sides'? You said the guards were on our 'side'. How did that happen? How did I end up on a 'side'? —I can't really explain. Things just happen. Over time, they accumulate. Bad attracts bad. Good attracts good. Eventually there are sides. The members flux, sometimes the boundaries are gray. Good and bad are sometimes not the point. It happens.

And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.

And the guards stood with weapons in hand surrounding the king by the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.

When Athaliah heard the noise from the guards and the people, she went out to the people in the house of the LORD.

He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace by way of the Gate of the Guards. Then Joash took his seat on the royal throne,

The lots for the West Gate and the Shallecheth Gate on the ascending highway fell to Shuppim and Hosah. There were guards stationed at every watch.

And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would go with him, bearing the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.

And I told them, “Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While the guards are on duty, keep the doors shut and securely fastened. And appoint the residents of Jerusalem as guards, some at their posts and some at their own homes.”

Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.

But Peter followed Him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. And he went in and sat down with the guards to see the outcome.

The guards trembled in fear of him and became like dead men.

While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests all that had happened.

So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.

“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city, which opened for them by itself. When they had gone outside and walked the length of one block, the angel suddenly left him.

After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.