parade-ground

Often he saw these boats turn aside from the street and enter the flooded square that marked the Barracks 'parade-ground.

THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN 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.

In performance: Mahler 7 at the BSO Anne Midgette 2010

Suddenly, as clearly as if I were on a parade-ground, my ears caught the sound of a bugle-call.

The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

Troche went on to describe how parade-ground architects found many other opportunities to incorporate the number twelve into their designs.

HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 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.

Fiancée 2010

Waterfield gave him the "present" and "fire", and the single demonstration shot cracked across the great parade-ground.

Fiancée 2010

He pulled himself to attention and announced in his best parade-ground voice:

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

Troche went on to describe how parade-ground architects found many other opportunities to incorporate the number twelve into their designs.

HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 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.

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's retirement ceremony marked by laughter and regret 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.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010