Sentence examples for guard of eight from inspiring English sources
To prevent the loss of the colors, Philo had a color guard of eight men to protect him.
In 1776, the new Town of Cape Elizabeth posted a guard of eight soldiers at Portland Head to warn citizens of coming British attacks.
There are flag-raising and retiring ceremonies, and an honor guard of seven men.
Then began the eighty-mile trek to Bsharri, with an honor guard of three hundred.
After sermons in Eisleben, the coffin was driven back to Wittenberg, with an honor guard of forty-five men on horseback.
After this, Chabrias sent Phocion to demand their quota of the charges of the war from the islanders, and offered him a guard of twenty ships.
He rode out Sunday with an honor guard of six flag-bearing riders dressed as Hussars, the famous Hungarian light cavalry, as tens of thousands screamed.
Just after 10 A.M. on Friday morning, an honor guard of seven members of the South Carolina Highway Patrol marched across the lawn at the State House grounds to a small, fenced-in square, with a flagpole at its center.
"Then he instructed me to cross the ditch and set up a defense perimeter". The ser geant said he had left the pris oners under the guard of two members of his squad, one of whom was Paul D. Meadlo, a rifleman.
An honor guard of six Army paratroopers in white gloves, combat boots and burgundy berets hoisted Sergeant Checo's coffin from the back of a hearse into a small chapel at the Mother Cabrini Shrine near Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan.
