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Keep guard   /kip gɑrd/   Listen
Keep guard

verb
1.
Watch over so as to protect.  Synonyms: stand guard, stand sentinel, stand watch.  "The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen"






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"Keep guard" Quotes from Famous Books



... watched over the noble lady extended on the upper part of the monument. That of the unhappy constable of Castille was surrounded by four knights of Santiago, wrapped in the mantle of their Order, seeming to keep guard over their grand master, who lay buried without his head in the stone sarcophagus, bordered with Gothic mouldings. Gabriel remembered what he had heard his father relate about the recumbent statue of Don Alvaro. In former times the statue had been of bronze, and when mass ...
— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... led them silently to a drain or channel of the river Darro, up which they proceeded cautiously, single file, until they halted under a bridge near the royal gate. Here dismounting, Pulgar stationed six of his companions to remain silent and motionless and keep guard, while, followed by the rest and still guided by the renegade, he continued up the drain or channel of the Darro, which passes under a part of the city, and was thus enabled to make his way undiscovered into the streets. All was dark and silent. At the command of Pulgar the renegade ...
— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving

... would," laughed Ham, "for you would be too lazy to cook you a meal after you found the food. We'll have to keep guard all the way home on Sleepy, fellows, or he'll fall into some ravine and go to sleep. He worked so hard to-day, poor boy. I never did believe in this child labor ...
— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley

... confess your fault, ey'm satisfied," replied the little girl; "boh let it be a lesson to ye, Suky, to keep guard o' your tongue ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... except eunuchs, are permitted to come within the private lodgings or retiring rooms of the royal palace, within which his women keep guard with warlike weapons, and there likewise they execute justice upon each other for offences. Every morning, the Mogul comes to a window, called the jarneo,[195] which looks into the plain or open space before the palace-gate, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr


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