How To Use Arrack In A Sentence

his vocabulary alone is worth the cover price - gantries, quinquireme, discalced, carrack, loxodrome, godown, scutch, so shrewd in his deployment of detail, so blessed with good luck and goodwill that we forget the conceit and just enjoy the ride. The Seattle Times
They will certainly enjoy some respite from the negative headlines which have been barracking them in recent weeks, which maybe renders the result palatable for all.
He is also considering converting an army barracks and possibly a mental hospital into new open prisons. Times, Sunday Times
He is also considering converting an army barracks and possibly a mental hospital into new open prisons. Times, Sunday Times
Contemporary drawings show that the cookhouse was badly cracked as was the barracks and one of the caponiers had completely detached itself.

He and his fellow squaddies are not the only new recruits to arrive in the barracks. Times, Sunday Times
And there is a smell of arrack in the air as the men talk, the few that are willing to.
Miliband decided to risk serious barracking by telling the TUC he could not support the strikes, even though industrial action was sometimes a necessary last resort. Ed Miliband endures rough ride at TUC after criticism of pension strike action
These imports are used to feed patients in hospitals, learners in schools and soldiers in the army barracks.
Barrack Obama was named after his Kenya immigrant father and the given name means " blessed.
He was affected badly by the barracking that he got from the crowd.
The conditions in these barracks are not condonable but they are better than living in a tent and sleeping on the ground. Decrepit Army Barracks Exposed on YouTube - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
The guerrillas raided banks and destroyed a police barracks and an electricity substation.
There are two strong reasons for confining the army to barracks. Times, Sunday Times
While a system of barracks relieved the villagers of having to lodge the dragoons in their houses, the obligation to transport provisions using their own animals at times when they were needed in the fields was burdensome.
On the last night in Kweilin, 550 barracks and shacks were blown up. The Last Empress
Barracks, tents and makeshift shelters sprang like undergrowth from the soil. Times, Sunday Times
Around the keep, Silas noted, were the barracks, the mess hall, and the armories.
This could lead to regular soldiers taking on permanent guard duties to provide extra firepower and deterrence at other barracks. Times, Sunday Times
The stunt, aimed tweaking bourgeois consciences, ended when the city offered the men lodging in an army barracks. Times, Sunday Times
Brown, who is based at Battlesbury Barracks in Warminster, identified himself as the driver and said his vehicle skidded on the wet road.
Lavarack Barracks is bound to the south by the imposing outcrop of Mt Stuart, with its range of foothills, and spreads northwards across a flat plain to the east-west axis of University Drive.
Rooney's poor performances in the World Cup led to him being barracked by the Chelsea fans and Ferguson said: "Allgood players get booed these days, but it was a fantastic goal – the making ofitwas superb, and Antonio really couldn't miss. Manchester United grab first prize and eye Mesut Ozil
He found him in a dull room, fadedly furnished, much as I had found him in his barrack-room but a little while before, except that he was not writing but was sitting with a book before him, from which his eyes and thoughts were far astray. Bleak House
You can see the building outlines and archaeologists have reconstructed the barracks and towering gatehouse. The Sun
Sports centres and army barracks have been commandeered as shelters. Times, Sunday Times
We drove out of the barracks huddled in our combat jackets, and turned north towards the Alps.
The fog lay thick and cold over the countryside that morning, and inside the barracks it was pitch-black and silent, except for the deep, steady breathing of the gunners.
He came face to face with the barracks supervisor.
And ye had well nigh met him; for here cometh his carrack. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He and his fellow squaddies are not the only new recruits to arrive in the barracks. Times, Sunday Times
A slight tendency towards "barracking" on the part of the crowd was quickly stifled, however, by a brilliant effort from James, who by means of all-round play built up an attractive break of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21
The most severe penalty he could receive would be a suspension of pay, reduction in rank or confinement to the barracks.
The expedition constructed winter quarters, consisting of an enclosed stockade and barracks.
After following the latter for a few miles to the west, we took a path through beautifully wooded plains, with scattered trees of the Mahowa (_Bassia latifolia_), resembling good oaks: the natives distil a kind of arrack from its fleshy flowers, which are also eaten raw. Himalayan Journals — Complete
The issue for us was, can we attribute these rapes to Gaddafi himself, or is it something that happened in the barracks," he explained.
He informed Heemskerk of the arrival in the straits of Malacca of an immense Lisbon carrack, laden with pearls and spices, brocades and precious-stones, on its way to Europe, and suggested an attack. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
I will have one placed In the Captain's Hidey - Hole In Barrack 2.
Workers besiege police barracks and surround the paratroopers attacking the soldiers, arguing with them.
Still, there were over a dozen of them barracked in the new guardhouse at the gate to the estate.
The soldiers were at drill in the barrack square.
Well now, Flash old son, says you, that's compensation surely, for all the horrors unmanfully endured - and don't forget that along the road you've had enough assorted trollop to fill Chelsea Barracks, with an annexe at Alder-shot. Watershed
China -- Germany renounces in favor of China all privileges and indemnities resulting from the Boxer protocol of 1901, and all buildings, wharves, barracks, forts, munitions or warships, wireless plants, and other property (except diplomatic) in the German concessions of Tientsin and Hankow and in other Chinese territory except Kiaochow, and agrees to return to China at her own expense all the astronomical instruments seized in 1901. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
This is seen as a reward for the army's loyalty during a barracks revolt earlier this month.
The news of conditions at Scutari, where the ill and wounded soldiers were barracked, was considered scandalous back home in London.
The crowd gave the visiting politician quite a barracking.
According to one of the three security officers at the warehouse, four masked men armed with a pistol entered the premises and forced them at gunpoint to gulp down a bottle of arrack, a strong alcoholic drink.
Carnon Consolidated has applied for planning permission to extend underground by 2 kilometres toward another small settlement, Carharrack.
Christmas... what a thought... Christmas in the Springfield Road barracks. FIELD OF BLOOD
I got myself a pass into the barracks.
He's not ready to be C-in-C of the greatest nation on earth, pls NC lets stop this Barrack Husein Obama from talking his way through (empty-headed) to the white house ... Clinton faces uphill battle in North Carolina
Apart from a lad called skippy I made him fall in love with me during a spell at Keogh Barracks. Army Rumour Service
In September, 54 conscripts were arrested after abandoning their barracks in southern Russia and tramped nearly 35 miles to the city of Volgograd to protest at beatings by their superiors.
He was not lording it now over a barracks where discipline was supported by a traditional system. MOONDROP TO MURDER
The regiment, currently based at York Barracks in Munster, Germany, was garrisoned in York in the 1700s.
Fans gained more enjoyment barracking him than cheering on the team.
A squadron of the Guard in the barracks courtyard was doing routine drills.
O that he had but the wealth and treasure of both the Indies to endow her with, a carrack of diamonds, a chain of pearl, a cascanet of jewels, (a pair of calfskin gloves of four-pence a pair were fitter), or some such toy, to send her for a token, she should have it with all his heart; he would spend myriads of crowns for her sake. Anatomy of Melancholy
Many Army barracks are overcrowded and lacking in modern amenities, such as air conditioning.
Of course, being a Liberal supporter, I should really be barracking for Latahm to remain.
Sir, — Your being personally present in this sever sea - son which we know stroungly impresses your mind with a scene of their suffering circumstances, therefor having no doupt of your humanity to relieve them, and justis to hear their complaints when founded on justis and reason, gives us, the commanding officers of the regiments in the 3 1 * and 4 th brigades, to lay the complaints of the soldiers to the officers of the scantity of their present alowance of their provision under the heavey fatigue this garrison is now subject to, which is more sever than at any other time, in hailing provisions, forage and material for the barracks over and above the supply of wood for the garrison and ourselves; and the beef being thin and not any vegetables at this season to be procured as in time pass. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Fr. Jenkins 'comment would make sense if abortion were not such a fundamental violation of human rights, such a fundamental contravention of the purpose of government, such a grave and widespread attack on the most vulnerable of human beings, and Barrack Obama were not so prominent a supporter of the proabortion rights position. Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame
During the Ming Dynasty, the three-story barracks pavilion must have seemed electrifying after months in the sinister outlands.
The men were taken prisoner and taken to a Dutch army barracks in Batavia, the capital city of Java.
But an unnamed friend of the teenager said the youngster was joking and talking with a soldier guarding the barracks when the soldier opened fire without provocation.
The Chinese, with ships as large as the Portuguese carracks and much more efficient to windward, traded in growing strength throughout South-east Asia, and settled in the area in far greater numbers than Europeans.
Bigger ships known as carracks, mixing square and lateen sails and weighing up to 1000 tons, could sail further and carry more merchandise than ever before.
Most Dutch genre, however, depicted the life of the better-off, often in scenes of household life, but also in markets, barrack rooms, taverns, inns, and brothels.
Soon afterwards, the radio broadcast a message from Eyadema himself, calling on the soldiers to return to barracks.
Sports centres and army barracks have been commandeered as shelters. Times, Sunday Times
Entering aboord the Barke, and making it their owne by full possession, all the men they threw over-boord, without sparing any but Landolpho himselfe, whom they mounted into one of the Carrackes, leaving him nothing but a poore shirt of The Decameron
I think he barracks for those awful Fremantle Dockers.
Oh, and they pay council tax on their barracks rooms back in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
Barracks could now be provided, and exeats were strictly controlled.
It was logical really that I should be brought from my anonymous safe house to the Hezbollah's Hay Madi barracks.
I've also noticed a black-eared wheatear that seems to favor the grassy area in front of our barracks.
The Mayor and Mayoress will host a reception in the parlour for guests before the Remembrance Sunday service followed by lunch at the Artillery Barracks.
Combined with recruiting units from the barracks, you can easily, when conditions arise, build armies with a score of siege weapons and a legion of men.
By the end of the reign of the carrack, a third sail, the topgallant sail had appeared in some ships above the topsail in its topgallant mast.
A heavily armed small carrack might sport 2 culverins below and 5 demi-culverins on deck per side, which at that rate could sink a ship of its class but only with some work. Cannon for Pathfinder « Geek Related
The architect explains that through this project, "the barrack has become the tangible symbol of the internment experience."
Gerry Brownlee was giving a point of order; Michael Cullen stood up and barracked him from his seat.
Ripple firecracker detonations erupted from the rise overlooking the barracks as the militiamen opened fire.
Based on the demographics of West Virginia it tells you uneducated white rednecks over 65 years old do not like this young whipper-snipper called "Barrack. Schneider: More sobering news - the value gap
One was shot in the leg and another bayoneted through the hip, and all were sent back to camp, where they were awarded six weeks in the punishment camp, known as the strafe barracks. The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland
The caravel, the Pinta and the huge carrack, the Santa Maria, which was known by its nickname, the Gallega. Facts About Christopher Columbus | myFiveBest
Bull owners pride themselves on making their animals as aggressive as possible either by baiting them or feeding them large quantities of arrack, the local firewater.
Located in Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq, the 22-building academy will include barracks, a dining hall, classrooms and an armory.
Another of the Palace Barracks guns, a Browning automatic pistol, was used to assassinate Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.
He left Morgan in 2004 and moved to Malvern, Pa., into the converted barracks of a 19th-century gristmill, while Alex stayed behind in their three-bedroom apartment on New York's Upper East Side. Downshift
As we walked back to the keep where the Greens were barracked, the two Sathe carried on a spirited conversation, recalling old battles where defenders were in similar conditions.
A large military barracks is also slotted into the compound, including a grid of concrete sleeping cabins. Times, Sunday Times
Not far from Rob Tanner's place at a local oval, was a good crowd of mums and dads barracking for their kids in the Under 10's cricket game between teams from Glenmore Park and Penrith.
At the beginning of spring, with a couple of other drug freaks, he'd rented some barrack-type buildings on the edge of a one-time military airbase.
Civilian activists are positioned around army barracks, tracking army units' movements and reporting to special emergency headquarters.
Phillips 'order "does not order the military to redesign its barracks, to retool its pay scales or benefits, to reordain its chaplains, to rewrite its already extensive anti-harassment or' dignity and respect '"rules, or anything else," they said. Log Cabin Republicans Push Supreme Court To Vacate Stay On DADT Repeal
The local militia gathered at their barracks, but their officers were reluctant to hurt any members of the mob.
That scheme was knocked galley-west and crooked, for even when MacRae's term expired he'd get a long period of duty at the Fort; he'd lost his rank, and as a private his coming and going would be according to barrack-rule instead of the freedom allowed a sergeant in charge of an outpost like Pend Raw Gold A Novel
The familiar sadness of the ceremony was multiplied by its setting: a tawdry tar-paper barrack surrounded by strips of barbed wire which denied the parents of the honored soldiers the very freedom for which their sons had died.
As punishment, the men were confined to barracks.
The crowd surrounded the barracks and tried to get hold of the man who had shot the linesman. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
Being an ex-serviceman, I get annoyed at the fact that my barrackroom was smaller than a jail cell. Couldn’t Prosecute Satan « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison explores how the prison is merely the centerpiece of a much larger carceral system, and that our schools, factories, military barracks, churches, etc, are all based on these same architectural and philosophical principles. Printing: Education
As their buses arrive at the barracks, students notice four figures standing nearby.
When the crowd barracked him and he told them to shut up, the umpire, Bruno Rebeuh, issued a code violation, which really got Tarango going.
The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture – Sainte-Catherine, after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochere of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic dream of Les Miserables
The confusion, it seems, is because the horses pulling the royal carriage procession are being stabled at Imphal Barracks.
When I was in the forces (I sound like Uncle Albert …” During the War!”) the only time I wore my uniform off duty was at the end of the working day and I was in barracks getting scoff from the Naafi. Thin Blue Line « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
We reached Orange before any of the other groups and went into the barracks.
The following night partisans and patriots occupy the regional government buildings and barracks.
Drinking of arrack or country liquor has been such a problem that pressure from women in recent years has led to its prohibition.
Barrack huts with semi-circular roofs were in two parallel lines. SKORPION'S DEATH
The said Sully, a barracker associated with tinkers, the blackhand, Shovellyvans, wreuter of annoyimgmost letters and skirriless ballets in Parsee Franch who is Magrath’s thug and smells cheaply of Power’s spirits, like a deepsea dibbler, and he is not fit enough to throw guts down to a bear. Finnegans Wake
The audience was barracking them good naturedly.
Maj-Gen Evans said one of his immediate priorities was to consolidate across the division, giving soldiers more time in barracks and at home than has been the case in past few years.
That act finally secured the retreat of the military to barracks. Times, Sunday Times
The Hungerstraf I found to consist of confinement to a bedless and fireless barrack on a diet of pure and undiluted water. The Memoirs of a Swine in the Land of Kultur
To this I cou'd not submit to secure the barrack I offered to erect four large sheds and finished one - together with some paling to enclose a yard.
It was first built as military barracks and was later used as the first venue for the Treason Trial.
Smaller edifices, like temples and mausoleums, were adapted bodily to their new office, while the larger ones, such as thermæ, theatres, circuses, and barracks were occupied in parts only. Pagan and Christian Rome
Buddy, you've gotta drop off that bag first . Take It to POW barracks 2.
In barracks sentries are usually furnished by the unit's guard, a detachment of soldiers on duty for a 24-hour period, who live in the guardroom or guardhouse.
Officers were billeted in the Polygon Hotel, and the men at Blighmont Barracks in Millbrook Road.
It was logical really that I should be brought from my anonymous safe house to the Hezbollah's Hay Madi barracks.
The men complain they mine the coal all day and don't have enough to heat the barracks at night.
According to the Fourth Edition of Food Lover's Companion, it is used to flavor drinks such as pastis, arrack, anisette, and Ouzo. Wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
The sites comprising Vimy and Helles barracks also boast excellent catering facilities along with dormitory-style overnight accommodation.
He grew up barracking for East Perth and now supports Fremantle.
He and his fellow squaddies are not the only new recruits to arrive in the barracks. Times, Sunday Times
I am absolutely appalled at your barracking for England tomorrow night in the World Cup Final (Wallabies vs England).
On 7 November 1919 barrack orderlies were instructed to carry revolvers.
The funds would go to restore cuts that affect military housing, barracks, child care centers, schools, hangars, and office buildings.
Now we have barracks for the soldiers but the bugle is an extremely important instrument for our regiment and we like to carry on the tradition.
Formerly a Garda barracks, sweet shop and saddlery, the ground floor of the property has been opened up to accommodate one very large reception area which is partially divided by a wood panelled partition.
They get paid a lot better than the regular army, have better equipment, barracks and rations.
Bundles of joss-sticks, rice, fish, pork, and a jar of samshoo (rice arrack) are taken aboard, and by ten o'clock we are underway. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
Sports centres and army barracks have been commandeered as shelters. Times, Sunday Times
Two communal wash bowls are in the barracks.
In the West, Hungary was hailed as the merriest barrack in the East bloc. Goulash Populism
He found him in a dull room, fadedly furnished, much as I had found him in his barrack – room but a little while before, except that he was not writing but was sitting with a book before him, from which his eyes and thoughts were far astray. Bleak House
The Prime Minister supports voluntary voting, but says the Government won't be barracking for change.
Intimidation and bureaucratic barracking soon followed. Patrick Galey: History Provides Comfort for Beleaguered UN Court
The columnist Beachcomber's "new Soviet Barracks at Stratford", the building that conservative locals called "the jam factory", although it was euphorically reviewed by architectural progressives such as Maxwell Fry, was a pretty tame animal by international standards. A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Chorley boss Mark Molyneaux has launched a scathing attack on a ‘minority’ of supporters he feels are unfairly barracking his players.
He was barracked throughout, yet the animosity was not based on skin colour. Liverpool tear aside camouflage to expose Manchester United
The camp consists of 6 sleeping and living barracks, 1 hospital barrack now partly used as sleeping quarters, 1 temporary cookhouse with adjoining washhouse and latrine, 1 bath and washhouse combined with another latrine, 1 magazine and 1 large cookhouse with adjoining mess-hall, under construction. Work Camp 95 GW
After going through the "delouser" at Camp Dix, Battery D was moved to another section of barracks, near the discharge center. The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces
Moreover, when the taxed-out or squeezed-out peasant moved to the insalubrious factory barracks, he became part of an ill-paid, unhealthy, unskilled, and uneducated proletariat which was a social problem in itself.
His equipment was soon complete, and, with his harquebuss on his shoulder (for though they retained the name of Archers, the Scottish Guard very early substituted firearms for the long bow, in the use of which their nation never excelled), he followed Master Oliver out of the barrack. Quentin Durward
The noisiest barracking came from 75-year-old Sir Edward Elgar. A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Thousands flocked to the resort bent on experiencing the barrack-room accommodation, the ‘wakey-wakey’ calls barked out across the resort's Tannoys and the comfort of a place where once you were in, everything was already paid for.
Once arrested, protesters, including five Britons, were taken to a police barracks where they were beaten again, sprayed with asphyxiating gas, threatened with rape and forced to sing fascist-era songs. Briton recalls the night Italian police beat up G8 protesters
Any soldier who leaves his post will be confined to barracks .
I moved a group of soldiers nearby the enemy barracks, and they started shooting at it automatically.
From the outside the buildings looked like many a hospital, school or army barracks. The Prisons We Deserve
The most severe penalty he could receive would be a suspension of pay, reduction in rank or confinement to the barracks.
He had made no offer churchwards, and -- "Poor man," as Mrs Greenow said in her little explanation, "if I hadn't let him stay there, he would have had no resting-place for the sole of his foot, but some horrid barrack-room! Can You Forgive Her?
She may not be a barracks rat, but she's not too far off.
Bomb disposal experts from Collins Barracks, Cork disarmed the pipe bomb yesterday afternoon.
barracking" of the crowd were supremely diverting. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
The sharp sound of boot heels came from far away, approaching their barracks like some grim reaper, come to harvest their humiliation.
The crowds are mostly supporters, but if there is barracking from a foe so much the better.
All she has of his are the keys to his barracks room which he forgot to take. The Sun
Needless to state, the firelocks were all "poised" -- whatever that may be -- and, led by Allen, a rush was made, the sentry overpowered, and soon the gallant "83" were standing back to back on the parade-ground within the fort, their muskets levelled at the two barracks which, filled with sleeping soldiers, faced each other. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
This is seen as a reward for the army's loyalty during a barracks revolt earlier this month.
He is also considering converting an army barracks and possibly a mental hospital into new open prisons. Times, Sunday Times
Great armies of them are toiling now at the building of Ardis, housed in wretched barracks where family life cannot exist, and where decency is displaced by dull bestiality. Chapter 21: The Roaring Abysmal Beast
It was a square bastioned affair, with walls of stone, each face eighty feet in length, and within it stood magazines, barracks, and, until destroyed by fire, the mansion of the colonial governors. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn
On January 17, 1524, Verrazzano set sail in his carrack La Dauphine. Archive 2008-07-01
Taraf also released what it described as the transcript of recordings of a March 2003 meeting at Istanbul's Selimiye barracks attended by more than 160 officers, including two dozen generals. SFGate: Top News Stories
Every morning we had to line up outside our barracks for 'appel' (roll call) when we were counted by the German camp commander and guards. The Biography of a Rabbit
Guei had initially promised he would not run and would quickly return soldiers to their barracks.
The barracks allowed us to be separated from those with genuine seniority and rank and provided us a space to turn on each other.
Does anyone know where the Police Battalions were barracked in Krakow?
It has scenes of animals being forcibly fed arrack, non-stop beating to accelerate their pace during the race and other shocking images from the muddy tracks.
For a week we were installed in a military barracks. Times, Sunday Times
-- Coffee in the seventeenth century, inoculation in that which followed; since which we have had now and then a new dance and a new game at cards, curry and mullagatawny soup from the East Indies, turtle from the West, and that earthly nectar to which the East contributes its arrack, and the West its limes and its rum. Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
This division of parental loyalties has made it such that in sporting contests when England plays Germany, he is unsure of whom to barrack for.
Instead, he spoke as Marines and soldiers do in the headquarters tent or the barracks, on the battlefield or among comrades.
Soldiers sign out when they leave the barracks.
He looked for it everywhere, through all his clothes, under the bed, all over the Barracks.
No disinfectants whatever were used, and at intervals of three days it was emptied by the crudest means imaginable, on which occasions the barracks were not only untenantable but absolutely unapproachable. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben
‘I agree, but I can't help thinking that demolishing the barracks is an added risk to the whole endeavor.’ ‘Rather,’ concurred Gavin.
Democrats Senator Brian Greig who has himself been in a long-term same sex relationship has been barracking for equal rights on superannuation for some time.
From the outside the buildings looked like many a hospital, school or army barracks. The Prisons We Deserve
'' 'Mr. Dass chinna savari' '' .... occupation arrack seller .... Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
At midnight, the servicemen returned to their barracks, while civilians continued the violence.
The barracks was extremely crowded and infested with fleas. Christianity Today
Armed guards patrolled the perimeter and an army barracks was on standby. The Sun
You can't seriously expect a Melbourne man to forget who he barracks for just because he happens to be on TV and radio.
I told them about those three ships -- we imagine huge floating fortresses, but Columbus 'ships were shockingly tiny for an open ocean crossing, two small caravels and the flagship Santa María, a carrack -- making their way out of Palos that morning, on a voyage longer and more dangerous than a modern trip to the moon. Jesse Larner: Some Thoughts on Columbus Day
Rooney was barracked upon his substitution midway through the second half, appearing to applaud all sides of the ground sarcastically as he departed, though others in the 72,024 crowd sought to drown out the catcalls with applause. Capello calls time on David Beckham's England career in brutal fashion
This is not a military unit, not a military barracks. Times, Sunday Times
One soldier, rather close to the bottom of the ladder, was quite satisfied to simply keep the latrines clean and the barracks stoves going in cold weather.
These centres, usually former army barracks, were not well suited to families and civilian residence. Refugees in the Age of Total War
It may be that the position of her uncle's house (which was her home) at the corner of West Street nearest the barracks, the daily passing of the troops, the constant blowing of trumpet-calls a furlong from her windows, coupled with the fact that she knew nothing of the inner realities of military life, and hence idealized it, had also helped her mind's original bias for thinking men-at-arms the only ones worthy of a woman's heart. A Changed Man; and other tales
Every time the minister got up to speak he was barracked mercilessly.
The hotels are old Navy barracks that have been comfortably redone.
On arrival at Sheerness naval barracks Binding was told to train them himself.
Hereward passed on to the barracks, where the military music had seemed to halt; but on the Varangian crossing the threshold of the ample courtyard, it broke forth again with a tremendous burst, whose clangour almost stunned him, though well accustomed to the sounds. Count Robert of Paris

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