Sentinel

Famous quotes containing the word sentinel:

    The sentinel with his musket beside a man with his umbrella is spectral. There is not sufficient reason for his existence.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky;
    Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)

    It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
    Albert J. Beveridge (1862–1927)