"ward" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His wife kept watch and ward at the other side of the cabinet.
- Seeking cover, Ibn Jad and his Beduins crept down toward the barbican where an old knight and a few men-at-arms kept perfunctory ward.
- And all this time, fearing attack, they must keep watch and ward through the gloom, so that even sleep was denied them.
- I therefore propose that we should retreat to the house of Duchray and that of Gartartan, and keep safe and sure watch and ward until morning.
- Let fencible men, each party in its own range of streets, keep watch and ward, all night.
- Over their king 60,000 foot-soldiers, 1,000 horsemen, 700 elephants keep watch and ward in "procinct of war."
- Is there no way we may keep watch and ward on that which lies in the hearts and minds of men and women?
- In the meantime, Mrs. Sparsit kept unwinking watch and ward.
- That night he sat up with his gun and kept watch and ward.
- The earl was much blamed for not keeping stricter ward, for he received seven thousand marks a year from the treasury for his expenses.
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