Guarding

Examples

• And this is what you call guarding one's materials, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then it will be our duty to select, if we can, natures which are fitted for the task of guarding the city? Plato. The Republic.
• How can you imply that he required guarding against me? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Lucy here looked up; but Elinor was careful in guarding her countenance from every expression that could give her words a suspicious tendency. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Mine from Bethesda Church by Old Cold Harbor to the Chickahominy, with a division of cavalry guarding our right. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The bridge was seized by Gross's brigade after a slight skirmish with the pickets guarding it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In fact, the enemy having failed to reach our mine had thrown up a line farther back, where most of the men guarding that point were placed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• McClernand's corps was kept with its left flank on the Big Black guarding all the crossings. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Never, for a moment, still, he kept his mother constantly busy in holding him, and guarding his springing activity. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They still had their arms, while the soldier before mentioned was walking as sentry, guarding the prisoners he had SURROUNDED, all by himself. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The poor widow in the little cottage at Brompton, guarding her treasure there, little knew how eagerly some people coveted it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Her carefulness in guarding her sister from ever hearing Willoughby's name mentioned, was not thrown away. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• As they advanced they got under fire from batteries guarding the east, or lower, end of the city, and of musketry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Come, said the officer who was guarding me back to Shador; my orders are imperative; there is to be no delay. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• These men all had complete faith in his ability and stood by him as on a rock, guarding their work with the secretiveness of a burglar-proof safe. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Colonel Murphy with a few men was guarding the place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It saves the labour of guarding the cattle, which feed better, too, when they are not liable to be disturbed by their keeper or his dog. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That portion of the Army of the Potomac not engaged in guarding lines of communication was on the northern bank of the Rapidan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have stated that a detachment of troops was engaged in guarding workmen who were repairing the railroad east of Memphis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were no troops stationed between these two points, except a small force guarding a working party which was engaged in repairing the railroad. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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