The Wasps said that they would
keep guard and drive off thieves with their stings.
The landlord having taken his seat directly opposite to the door of the parlour, determined to
keep guard there the whole night.
Hector and the other councillors are now holding conference by the monument of great Ilus, away from the general tumult; as for the guards about which you ask me, there is no chosen watch to
keep guard over the host.
The Scoodlers led the captives away and shut them up in one of the houses, leaving only a single Scoodler to
keep guard.
With a word, D'Artagnan reassured them; and Planchet ran to inform the other sentinels that it was useless to
keep guard longer, as his master had come out safe from the Palais-Cardinal.
And these two, thus nurtured and educated, and having learned truly to know their own functions, will rule over the concupiscent, which in each of us is the largest part of the soul and by nature most insatiable of gain; over this they will
keep guard, lest, waxing great and strong with the fulness of bodily pleasures, as they are termed, the concupiscent soul, no longer confined to her own sphere, should attempt to enslave and rule those who are not her natural-born subjects, and overturn the whole life of man?
Reuter had already glided away, she was nowhere visible; a maitresse or teacher, the one who occupied the corresponding estrade to my own, alone remained to
keep guard over me; she was a little in the shade, and, with my short sight, I could only see that she was of a thin bony figure and rather tallowy complexion, and that her attitude, as she sat, partook equally of listlessness and affectation.
"At first she would have nothing to do with his wicked scheme, for she was of a good natural disposition; {30} moreover there was a bard with her, to whom Agamemnon had given strict orders on setting out for Troy, that he was to
keep guard over his wife; but when heaven had counselled her destruction, Aegisthus carried this bard off to a desert island and left him there for crows and seagulls to batten upon--after which she went willingly enough to the house of Aegisthus.
Occasionally the children came with me; when they did so, they would stand some way off and
keep guard over us, so as to tell me if anybody came near.