From the tail of my eye I saw a score of
guards rushing across the glistening sand toward me.
Orders had just been given to the royal
guards and the Swiss
guards, not only to stand firm, but to send out patrols to the streets of Saint Denis and Saint Martin, where the people thronged and where they were the most vociferous, when the mayor of Paris was announced at the Palais Royal.
de Gesvres appeared, at the head of twelve
guards, in front of the hostelry.
A smart
guard jumped out, giving a whistle, and after him one by one the impatient passengers began to get down: an officer of the
guards, holding himself erect, and looking severely about him; a nimble little merchant with a satchel, smiling gaily; a peasant with a sack over his shoulder.
After passing some Austrian troops he noticed that the next part of the line (the
Guards) was already in action.
CREON Fear not, I've posted
guards to watch the corpse.
Two
guards attended the mercer who made him traverse a court and enter a corridor in which were three sentinels, opened a door and pushed him unceremoniously into a low room, where the only furniture was a table, a chair, and a commissary.
"So it was that the tribe was left without eyes or
guards. We had not the strength of sixty.
The mail coach doors were on their hinges, the lining was replaced, the ironwork was as good as new, the paint was restored, the lamps were alight; cushions and greatcoats were on every coach-box, porters were thrusting parcels into every boot,
guards were stowing away letter-bags, hostlers were dashing pails of water against the renovated wheels; numbers of men were pushing about, fixing poles into every coach; passengers arrived, portmanteaus were handed up, horses were put to; in short, it was perfectly clear that every mail there, was to be off directly.
Two turnkeys, an inspector, and three or four
guards, made their appearance all at once, and found Cornelius still using the stick, with the knife under his foot.
As assassination is the one thing to be feared, the proprietors of the hostelries furnish armed
guards, who pace back and forth through the sleeping-rooms day and night.
One of the
guards on horseback answered that they were galley slaves belonging to his majesty, that they were going to the galleys, and that was all that was to be said and all he had any business to know.