Then the squad Ported arms, relieved the sentry, and retired, their black legs gleaming blue points as they rose and fell.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
Another bark and they Ported arms.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
Men who had travelled much on the Continent, who had marvelled at the stern precision with which every sentinel moved and spoke in the citadels built by Vauban, who had seen the mighty armies which poured along all the roads of Germany to chase the Ottoman from the Gates of Vienna, and who had been dazzled by the well ordered pomp of the household troops of Lewis, sneered much at the way in which the peasants of Devonshire and Yorkshire marched and wheeled, shouldered muskets and Ported pikes.
"The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)"
Thomas Babington Macaulay