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Meanings of keep guard in English

Portuguese
estar de sentinela
Spanish
vigilar

Watch over so as to protect.

        estar de sentinela
        Synonyms
        Examples for "stand guard"
        Examples for "stand guard"
        1
        Police stand guard during May Day celebrations in Athens, Greece, May 2010.
        Reuters
        2
        Sleep now, Will, and I shall stand guard, I shan't fail you.
        The amber spyglass
        3
        Make them think I am leaving some men to stand guard, yes?
        The great hunt
        4
        It often ends with her asking a random passer-by to stand guard.
        Independent.ie
        5
        At night ten Campas came along to our camp to stand guard.
        Conquest of the Useless
        1
        May the Crooked Warden ever stand watch and bless his crooked servant.
        The lies of locke lamora
        2
        But I think we ought to stand watch, turn and turn about.
        Army Boys on German Soil: Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs
        3
        May God stand watch as this pious work comes to an end.-
        The Deeds of God Through the Franks
        4
        The rest of us will stand watch and help if we need to.
        Summer of Night
        5
        Stand watch there and tell Grey he's free to collect his share.
        Skin Game
        1
        Men and women in almost identical dark jackets and trousers stand sentinel.
        The Guardian
        2
        The forest appeared to stand sentinel over the shore for its entire length.
        A Voyage to Arcturus
        3
        But of all the cowards that stand sentinel for capital, the most craven is Confidence.
        The Cost
        4
        Enter the building and two mascots stand sentinel, bedecked in the school's red and white.
        The Irish Times
        5
        So it hangs in her drawing-room, near by where the Eildons stand sentinel over Scott's resting-place.
        Robert Louis Stevenson
        Usage of keep guard in English
        1
        Every afternoon I go and keep guard up yonder by the Paradou.
        Abbe Mouret's Transgression
        2
        These he tossed aside and bade the dog keep guard over them.
        Patsy
        3
        It is our business to keep guard and carry word to Amherst.
        The Sun of Quebec: A Story of a Great Crisis
        4
        Macumazahn will be there to keep guard, and with him the Zulu.
        Allan Quatermain
        5
        Take Max and the other curs and keep guard on the rear.
        Darkness unleashed
        6
        For that matter, why put any one to keep guard over me?
        The Light of the Western Stars
        7
        And you, Ramsay, will keep guard at the river bastion all night!
        Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu...
        8
        I like the surveillance; it seems to keep guard over me.
        The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2
        9
        The Babu placed himself near the end of the jetty to keep guard.
        In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
        10
        The old men keep guard on the line, and the young men advance.
        The Lady of the Shroud
        11
        This breed must be rare indeed, if only these few keep guard here.
        Wizardborn
        12
        Raising the skin, he shoved me forward and hastened out to keep guard.
        Lords of the North
        13
        To the right of Bright Angel Creek, striking buttes keep guard.
        The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It
        14
        You and I will go in, Estelle, and Marjorie can keep guard outside.'
        Chatterbox, 1906
        15
        Molay slept on a pallet outside their door to keep guard.
        The Bone Doll's Twin
        16
        They took turns to keep guard, and the long night wore slowly away.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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