inlying

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A body of cavalry who were in their way—an inlying picket—proved for the moment unsteady, and thus the rebels reached the post at which two of Major Tombs’ guns were placed.

From Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Then guards and inlying pickets were mounted and the scouts withdrawn.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon

We very soon got settled down, and mounted a guard and an inlying picquet.

From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie, John Allister

True polish in marble or in speech reveals inlying realities, and, in the latter at least, mere smoothness, either of sound or of meaning, is not worthy of the name.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George

The inlying pickets were accordingly doubled, and every man slept in his clothes, so as to be ready.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston