Noun : We had difficulty in getting through the blockade of bodyguards.    From Dictionary.com. 

The nearest blockader was fearfully close to us, and all seemed lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

On the appearance of a suspicious sail, the blockader, all vigilance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829] Reference

Yet, ever and again -- through wooden mesh of the blockade-net and its iron links, alike -- slipped a fleet, arrowy little blockader into port.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

They were soon joined by a third blockader, and as we drew nearer to the bar, Fort Fisher took part in the engagement, and the blockaders hauled off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

But who recalls the arrival of a blockader at Charleston, Savannah, or Wilmington, when its ventures were not exposed at the auctions of Richmond, in time unreasonably short!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

"The steamer has been seen by a blockader, and she will catch it now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victorious Union] Reference

"Schooner, ahoy!" shouted the officer of a boat sent off by the nearest blockader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within The Enemy's Lines] Reference

For all the rest of the year the Bellevite remained on duty as a blockader off Fort Morgan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting for the Right] Reference

The remainder of the group, with two or three exceptions, were the seamen of the blockader.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victorious Union] Reference

It is not all from the isolation; the snow is not merely a blockader; it is a Chemical Test.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waifs and Strays Part 1] Reference

Appalachicola, with the intention of running the blockade, if there was any blockader off Cape St. George.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand By The Union] Reference

But what does White play if Black does not take the bishop but sets up a new blockader in front of the passed pawns with.    From Wordnik.com.  [ChessBase News] Reference

The "Hornet" accordingly remained outside the harbor, as a blockader, while the "Constitution" continued her cruise alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

"But you will find a blockader at the east end of the island; and then you will be as badly off as you are now," argued Christy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within The Enemy's Lines] Reference

At midnight two boat-loads of determined men, rowing with muffled oars moved silently out from the blockader towards the beached vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 4] Reference

"Of course, I shall have to do that if necessary; but I don't like to do that, for every blockader will watch her all the time if I do," replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within The Enemy's Lines] Reference

The Confederate steamer had sensibly increased her speed, and gave no attention whatever to the schooner or the blockader to the westward of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victorious Union] Reference

The blockader believed it was as much of his right to make a part of his corn into whiskey without license as it was to make another part into bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roanoke Times: Home page] Reference

The blockade-runner chose his own time and had the excitement of the attempt, but the blockader must be ever vigilant throughout long periods of inaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XII] Reference

The runner had reached the harbor safely; but there in channel lay a blockader in such a position that any ship coming in must pass within a hundred feet of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

"The mills take from our forest, and then give us back disease and sickness and death," explained Judy Da Silva, a grassroots mother and blockader from Grassy Narrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intercontinental Cry] Reference

Finally, to fill the cup of wrath against her, she had sunk a blockader off the coast of Texas, given the slip to a Union man-of-war at the Cape of Good Hope, and kept the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray] Reference

For a blockader off Charleston or Wilmington to be forced to return to Hampton Roads to coal or to make repairs, would entail the loss of weeks, perhaps months, of valuable time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

"They have seen the Bellevite on board of the Tallahatchie, and she has changed her course," said Graines, while Christy was still watching the movements of the blockader in the west.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victorious Union] Reference

A light boat from Pilot Town, or any other point on the inner shore, in which they could make their escape to the Bellevite or some other blockader.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victorious Union] Reference

"Then she is not fast enough for that blockader outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within The Enemy's Lines] Reference

We are out of the woods now, and there will be no trouble at all till some blockader stirs up the waters, "said Christy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victorious Union] Reference

"My master was the captain of the Floridian, and we came out here to see if there was any blockader near, that had come up in the fog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand By The Union] Reference

"Eight of them, sir; and they have been keeping guard on Crooked, St. Andrew's, and Hurricane Islands, to let them know inside if there was any blockader coming this way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand By The Union] Reference

Less thrilling the tale of the blockader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XII] Reference

Shot by Federal blockader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News from Wilmington Star News] Reference

A blockader.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference

"blockader" is seen undergoing repair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Town and Port of Nassau] Reference

"I was tooken in a blockader, eight on us.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victorious Union] Reference

"The blockader in the west isn't anywhere now.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victorious Union] Reference

"I don't believe there is any blockader there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within The Enemy's Lines] Reference