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"Parade ground" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cutting across the parade ground towards the office, where his duties as interpreter required him, he was met by an ...

— Under the Rebel's Reign • Charles Neufeld

... to church for the good motive, while those who praised God that man might see them entered, and quitted the Cathedral by the more public doorway on the Plaza. He knew also that the convent schools took their station just within the great porch, which, during the day, is the parade ground for those authorised beggars who wear their number and licence suspended round their necks as a ...

— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman

... little parade ground, with its well-trampled soil, on their way back to their boat, Tom Long was encountered, on his way to ...

— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn

... made a ball; the two being prepared with consummate art. On the next day when both were ready for use and wanted nothing more, he went up to the King; and, kissing the ground between his hands bade him ride forth on the parade ground[FN81] there to play at pall and mall. He was accompanied by his suite, Emirs and Chamberlains, Wazirs and Lords of the realm and, ere he was seated, the sage Duban came up to him, and handing him the bat said, "Take this mall and grip it as I do; ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... in camp the bugle sounded the assembly. Of course I did not know an "assembly" from a mess call, but the others ran for the parade ground ...

— Private Peat • Harold R. Peat

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