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At Geneva barrack that young man died.

The chair that Provis had occupied still remaining where it had stood,-for he had a barrack way with him of hanging about one spot, in one unsettled manner, and going through one round of observances with his pipe and his negro-head and his jackknife and his pack of cards, and what not, as if it were all put down for him on a slate,-I say his chair remaining where it had stood, Herbert unconsciously took it, but next moment started out of it, pushed it away, and took another.

George is becoming thoughtful, sitting before the fire in the whitewashed room, which has a sanded floor and a barrack smell and contains nothing superfluous and has not a visible speck of dirt or dust in it, from the faces of Quebec and Malta to the bright tin pots and pannikins upon the dresser shelves-Mr.

An impeccable, moustachioed Sergeant Major MacMahan, gaunt like all the others, wearing the beret and polished insignia of a Scots regiment, stood erect as a flagpole at one end of the barrack hut surveying it all, the angel in charge.

Oddly, borak was coupled with the verb poke in the phrase to poke borak at , meaning to deride, and this was close enough to the transitive use of the verb barrack ridicule, jeer at, verbally abuse to suggest that the two might be connected.

So barrack , attested as a Northern Irish term for bragging, shifts slightly but not contextually in meaning to the vociferous denigration of a sporting team or a participant in a fight, and admits the converse of this in the intransitive verb barrack for support.

Aside from the sexual effects of barrack life, it also tends to unfit the soldier for useful labor after leaving the army.

-Before the winter sets in every barrack in Ireland will be in a state of defence, fit to hold out against an insurgent assault.

If the nurse or mother is of strong character, and the authority is exercised persistently and remorselessly, so that the whole life of the child is dominated, much as the recruit's existence in the barrack yard is dominated by the drill sergeant, his independence of nature is crushed.

Living in a barrack of unwed men, that charming girl was surrounded by honest fellows who would have resented as an insult to themselves an impertinence offered to her.


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