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

Motor horns honked, grey-green soldiers snapped to present arms, and a fleet of eight cars, preceded and followed by bicycle policemen, swept through the streets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not only did 10,000 drenched soldiers present arms along the line of march, but many times as many soaking Argentineans turned out to wave farewell to this simp�tico Yankee.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had not gone far from the mausoleum, when they heard the sentinel present arms, and the castellan said in a low voice:-- "His majesty the king!"

From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Meding, Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar