Often he saw these boats turn aside from the street and enter the flooded square that marked the Barracks 'parade-ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Others try to make something tidy and classically restrained out of music that moves from haunted-house creepiness through fractured Viennese waltzes and mandolin serenades to an Elgar-on-steroids, parade-ground finale. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)
Suddenly, as clearly as if I were on a parade-ground, my ears caught the sound of a bugle-call. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For by now April had turned into May, the temperature was sweltering, and there was a hot wind blowing across the Meerut parade-ground and barracks that had nothing to do with the weather. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Partly to meet the situation that was approaching, the Ninth Infantry had been sent out from the Atlantic coast to Washington Territory, and upon its arrival at Fort Vancouver encamped in front of the officers 'quarters, on the beautiful parade-ground of that post, and set about preparing for the coming campaign. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Waterfield gave him the "present" and "fire", and the single demonstration shot cracked across the great parade-ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Troche went on to describe how parade-ground architects found many other opportunities to incorporate the number twelve into their designs. ❋ Sidney D. Kirkpatrick (2010)
He pulled himself to attention and announced in his best parade-ground voice: ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)
In the past, McChrystal has often expressed unease with the pomp and circumstance of the institutional Army, and he tried to avoid a big parade-ground send-off in favor of something quieter and low-key. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was dead right about the vermin, but Russell wouldn't have it; he claimed this was just stiff-necked parade-ground nonsense and red tape on Raglan's part, and wrote as much. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)
If we're so strong, one might ask, why do we need so much steroidal piety, so many in-your-face patriotic props, and so much parade-ground conformity? ❋ Unknown (2009)
As C S Lewis remarked, for a devil to dress up as an angel is only a parade-ground exercise. ❋ Unknown (2009)
With its immense boulevards, overgrand buildings, and monumental spaces, it presents the most unabashedly totalitarian cityscape in the world today, the kind of parade-ground capital that governments everywhere dream of building — hinted at in Washington, D.C., and achieved in Moscow to a greater degree, but nowhere executed to this extent. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Between parade-ground sessions during which he encouraged his recruits by cursing them in French and broken English, the baron wrote a manual of arms known as the "Blue Book" that would continue to shape the basic training of American recruits for generations to come. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It was a cheap-shot reference to the Washington location of the parade-ground duty Robb had pulled long ago. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Prince and, going in to his daughter, acquainted her with what had befallen them both on the parade-ground. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Some are strolling among the 5,036 graves, laid out in ranks of parade-ground precision along the manicured lawns. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And as soon as we are drawn up on the parade-ground we set off marching east, and I lead off with all my divisions behind me, in their regular order, waiting for my word. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In the rococo light of the palace at Potsdam, the sternnessof the parade-ground martinet dissolved, and visitors were startled to find a sensitive young man, one who possessed artisticinterests. ❋ MICHAEL KNOX BERAN (2007)
