The leading units moving at the head of an army.
1 The advance guard was now at the foot of the sheer cliff.
2 Almost at the same moment, the soldiers of the advance guard arrived.
3 Then the advance guard was halted till all the soldiers caught up.
4 Corrals, pens, and sheds have been first labors of the advance guard .
5 As soon as his advance guard appeared, the besiegers fled before him.
6 Maybe it's only a advance guard , and thar's a bigger body behint.
7 Trumpets almost certainly meant the advance guard of Vinas Solamnus's army.
8 And there's more troops coming; this is just the advance guard .
9 Instantly the twenty-nine charged; with equal celerity the advance guard bolted.
10 See-their advance guard now-thereon the rising ground in front of the gate.
11 A couple of miles from the Lint homestead she met its advance guard .
12 A cloud of dust accompanied the advance guard of the storm.
13 For the Prussian armies are, pre-eminently, the advance guard of the Servile State.
14 By this time the advance guard was coming up the road.
15 One of the advance guard , no doubt, brought down in flight.
16 When the battalions were proved, and before forming the advance guard .
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