sentineling

There was not enough originality among the worked-to-death inhabitants of Cottontown to plant their gardens differently; for all of them had the same weedy turnip-patch on one side, straggling tomatoes on another, and half-dried mullein-stalks sentineling the corners.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

What a glory it was -- the green seas of spruce and cedar and balsam, the ridges of poplar and birch rising like silvery spume above the darker billows, and afar off, mellowed in the sun-mists, the guardian crests of Trout Mountains sentineling the country beyond!

The Flaming Forest James Oliver Curwood 1903

Smoke - blackened and seasoned by wind and rain they were dark blotches sentineling the shore of the big lake.

The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903

Peaks of Otter -- twenty miles away -- lifting their proud heads far into the clouds, like giant watch-towers sentineling the gateway that the mighty waters of the James had forced through the barriers of solid adamant lying across their path to the far-off sea.

Andersonville — Volume 1 John McElroy 1887

Peaks of Otter -- twenty miles away -- lifting their proud heads far into the clouds, like giant watch-towers sentineling the gateway that the mighty waters of the James had forced through the barriers of solid adamant lying across their path to the far-off sea.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

At other times she walked up the long line of quays sentineling the Liffey, watching the swift boats of Guinness puffing down the river and the thousands of sea-gulls hovering above or swimming on the dark waters, until she came to the Phoenix Park, where there was always a cricket or football match being played, or some young men or girls playing hurley, or children playing tip-and-tig, running after one another, and dancing and screaming in the sunshine.

Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916