present arms
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“I gave the command to present arms, and we raised our sabers for Kennedy to walk under, like a tunnel,” Broadus said.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2013
Although no parade had been scheduled, seven military bands and guards of honor at "present arms" flanked the four-mile route.
From Time Magazine Archive
In return, other nations, including Russia, would have to promise to submit to real international control of atomic energy, and to spend two-thirds of their present arms budgets for "constructive ends."
From Time Magazine Archive
Soldiers in black dress uniform snapped to present arms.
From Time Magazine Archive
The general noticed what I was doing, and had to wait a moment for the guard to present arms, which it did all right.
From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Fuller, Charles Augustus
