Dictionary Entry
A permanent military post.
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Poetry examples for “garrison”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →alarm with men from Cornish and adjacent towns to reinforce
the garrison at Ticonderoga, from June 27 to July 11, 1777.
During this campaign he was appointed senior or color sergeant.
Read full poem →Garner W Bryan Dowell Md Solomons-2464
Garrison Wm C Chesapeake Beach Md. . North Beach-149
Garrity Raymond F
Read full poem →She had her own idea of things, the old lady.
And she liked talk. She had seen Garrison
And Whittier, and had her story of them.
Read full poem →Oft, when the fierce besiegers' eager host
Beholds the fainting garrison retire,
And rushes joyful to the naked wall,
Read full poem →Moreover, Diabolus flees before him; and he hath, as you behold, made of
my house a garrison against the castle where he is. I, for my part, have
transgressed greatly, and he that is clean, it is well for him. But I