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Under arms

adverb

Armed and prepared for fighting.

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"Under arms" Quotes from Famous Books

... by, flat and stale after the excitement of the morning. No one ventured far from cover; for the military remained under arms, and detachments of mounted troopers patrolled the streets. At the Camp the hundred odd prisoners were being sorted out, and the maimed and wounded doctored in the rude little temporary hospital. Down in Main Street the noise of hammering went on hour after hour. The dead could ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

... best foot foremost!" said she to herself. "Vice under arms to meet virtue!—Poor woman, what can she want of me? I ...

— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac

... I never saw him under arms or in uniform. I met him first at the house of a planter, where I was making the most of a flesh-wound, and was, myself, in uniform simply because I hadn't any other clothes. There were pretty girls in the house, and as his friends ...

— Strong Hearts • George W. Cable

... perfect order, and without saying a word—only lifting their hats as they defiled before the tombs. When they arrived at the Louvre they found the gates shut, and the garden evacuated. The troops were under arms, and formed in battalion. ...

— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

... Novales into exile to return into the port; that about one o'clock in the morning, Novales, accompanied by Lieutenant Ruiz, came to the barracks, and having made himself certain of the votes of the Creole non-commissioned officers, put the regiment under arms, took possession of the gates, and proclaimed himself Emperor ...

— Adventures in the Philippine Islands • Paul P. de La Gironiere

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