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Body guard   /bˈɑdi gɑrd/   Listen
Body guard

verb
1.
Accompany and protect from physical harm.





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"Body guard" Quotes from Famous Books



... no sooner landed in Cubia than it become nicessry f'r me to take command iv th' ar-rmy which I did at wanst. A number of days was spint be me in reconnoitring, attinded on'y be me brave an' fluent body guard, Richard Harding Davis. I discovered that th' inimy was heavily inthrenched on th' top iv San Juon hill immejiately in front iv me. At this time it become apparent that I was handicapped be th' prisence ...
— Mr. Dooley's Philosophy • Finley Peter Dunne
... surer footing than it was before, by means of a law which he procured to be passed, forbidding all private persons to appear armed in the streets; while to the king alone was reserved the right of a body guard of twelve men. [4] Snorrow relates, that no foreigner ever came to Norway, who gained so much public honor and deference among the people as Nicholas Breakspere. On his departure he was loaded with presents, and promised ...
— Pope Adrian IV - An Historical Sketch • Richard Raby
... followed; and even Prince John, in admiration of Locksley's skill, lost for an instant his dislike to his person. "These twenty nobles," he said, "which, with the bugle, thou hast fairly won, are thine own; we will make them fifty, if thou wilt take livery and service with us as a yeoman of our body guard, and be near to our person. For never did so strong a hand bend a bow, or so true an eye ...
— The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 - December, 1906. • Various


Words linked to "Body guard" :   bodyguard, escort, protect


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