They do not keep very good watch, for I have been expecting during these last ten minutes to hear the _qui vive_.

You did not come as near to Sainte Marie unchallenged, and yet De Lannes is as old a soldier as La Noue.

We can scarce see now, but yonder, near the river, is where he exercises his men." "He does so now," said Amos.

"I see a dozen of them drawn up in a line at their drill." "No sentinels, and all the men at drill!" cried Du Lhut in contempt.
"It is as you say, however, for I can see them myself with their ranks open, and each as stiff and straight as a pine stump.

One would think to see them stand so still that there was not an Indian nearer than Orange.