It had been a quiet, grassy place girdled with pines like tall sentinels guarding its quietude, and a sprightly brook flowing down its center.

Below them, within the scalloped rim of the lower dune, lay a broad blot of blood lichen, a few bristles of bonebush, a few taller sentinels of thorn.

It is a brilliant collection and ubiquitous, marked by tall civic sentinels whose names are cobra head and bishop's crook, teardrop and shoe box.

The best way was to start from the godswood, shinny up the tall sentinel, and cross over the armory and the guards hall, leaping roof to roof, barefoot so the guards wouldn't hear you overhead.

Beneath each was a waiting stalagmite, tall sentinel spires like the bases of trees in a giant forest.

They finally found him fast asleep in the upper branches of the tallest sentinel in the grove.

The trees grew round like tall sentinels.

Seen from the fishing hamlet, the lighthouse became a tall, vague-shaped sentinel against the sea.

Huge bare oaks, tall sentinels, and hosts of soldier pines stood all around them.

They followed a road, well lighted by the moonlight, through towering cliffs that loomed up like tall bright sentinels.