They passed the creaking windmill that stood like a lonely sentinel over the outbuildings.

The lonely sentinel on the mountaintop removed his gaze from the western horizon, beyond which lay Tagnor his hometown.

Wan Kew was like a lonely sentinel, guarding Chinatown's last outpost.

Rather than signs scattered "like lonely sentinels," the historian Mike Wallace favors a public computer database of memorabilia.

The four wind towers stood tall and sheer in the morning sun, lonely sentinels from the past.

Out on the watery mudflats, a single standing stone stood like a lonely sentinel, with only the crying seabirds for company.

For almost 50 years, the remaining buildings stood sagging in the prairie wind, lonely sentinels on a forgotten trail.

At intervals, soldiers - Sinhalese villagers from the south - stood as lonely sentinels in the charred remains.

It stood like a lonely sentinel, guarding nothing.

The weathered gray shafthouses stood like lonely sentinels in the lush landscape.