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• Before the gates of Bari, he lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches, and thatched with straw; a perilous station, on all sides open to the inclemency of the winter and the spears of the enemy.
• How do you distinguish between the disciplinary barracks and the penitentiary? Where are the disciplinary barracks ?
• I know the barracks at the training camp out on the moors.
• Where the men were barracked alone, unnatural crime prevailed : where the women were barracked, contrivances were made to render such a place a brothel.
• I knew that he had been barracked at times, but I did not realise that he was so sensitive.
• Some people stopped concentrating on the piece altogether, some started barracking and heckling, while others began chatting to one another.
• Its basic tenet was to say that if those Arsenal supporters who barracked the board at home games could do any better, let them come forward, put some money in the club, and have a go at being directors themselves. In short, ‘Put up or shut up’, which, of course, only encouraged Johnny and One-armed Lou to heckle the Arsenal board even more. Dear old Dennis, he had no idea the barracking he and his fellow Arsenal directors suffered at every home game came from Spurs supporters.
• The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.
• I had by then explained to him my custom of occasionally listening to Australian Rules Football on our shortwave radio of a Saturday afternoon; how, despite my barracking for Essendon, I thought a player from Geelong, Gary Ablett, the best I had ever seen.
• ‘So to me barracking for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody barracked for Essendon.’