"Home guard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pledged distinctly and explicitly the opposite course of action, unless, indeed, the Indian consent were first obtained.[41] The Indian troops, however and wherever raised under the provisions of those treaties, were expected by Pike to constitute, primarily, a home guard and nothing more. If by chance it should happen that, in performing their function as a home guard, they should have to cross their own boundary in order to expel or to punish an intruder, well and good; but their intrinsic character as something resembling a police patrol could not be deemed ...
— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel
... who understands the dangers is thrice armed, and is trained and entitled to enlist in the home guard to protect the health ...
— Euthenics, the science of controllable environment • Ellen H. Richards
... toss-up between Mr. Perrowne and Coristine; the parson won, and the disappointed lawyer was relegated to the flat feet. As the doctor had been major in a volunteer regiment, the Squire ceded the command of the infantry to him. It was proposed to have at least one man behind as a home guard, but nobody was prepared to volunteer for this service, Messrs. Errol, Wilkinson, and Lajeunesse, who were severally proposed, expressing their sense of the honour, their high regard for the ladies, and anxiety for their well-being, but emphatically declining to be absent from ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell
... by seizing all the horses within reach,[7] leaving none for the militia or for General E.H. Hobson, which enabled him to gain on his pursuers, and he would then have left Hobson far out of sight but for the home guard, who obstructed the roads somewhat, and bushwhacked his men from every hedge, hill, or tree, when it could be done. But the trouble was that we could not attack him ...
— Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War • Various
... come to-night, they never will; and there will be time enough for the home guard to scour the woods, and arrest ...
— Within The Enemy's Lines - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat • Oliver Optic |
