overquartering

Updated: March 1, 2026

"Why the dickens should we be surprised, Colonel?" said Desborough; "we know his Excellency, my brother-in-law Noll's I mean my Lord Cromwell's way, of overquartering his men in the towns he marches through. Thou hast obtained a share in our commission?"

Sir Walter Scott - Woodstock; or, the Cavalier