Sentinel Refused

Famous quotes containing the words sentinel and/or refused:

“The sentinel with his musket beside a man with his umbrella is spectral. There is not sufficient reason for his existence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declaring that every man should be master in his own house.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Esther 1:22.

King Ahasuerus, after his Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command.