His office also empowered him to guard the rights of the crown in the county, and to levy the fines imposed; which in that age formed no contemptible part of the public revenue.
Such was the anxious diligence which was required to guard the chastity of the gospel from the infectious breath of idolatry.
The very men who at first made it necessary to guard the roads in southern Illinois became the defenders of the Union.
One was left to guard thecrossing of the Big Black.
He had been detained toguard the remainder of the stores which had not yet been brought in to Corinth.
Napoleon was furious at the neglect of Victor to guard the crossing at Bray, and reluctantly turned away from Blücher to crush these columns.
To guard the purity of the faith was one of the most important functions of a primitive bishop.
To guard the faith, to purify the morals according to the Christian standard, overseers, officers, rulers are required.
Leaving a number of his men to guard the boats, the Adelantado departed on foot with the remainder.
Leaving ten men to guard the fortress, with a dog to assist them in catching utias, he marched with the rest of his men, about four hundred in number, to Fort Conception, in the abundant country of the Vega.
Thinking that he would be able to recuperate himself for the favour granted out of his guest's ransom, he hinted quietly to the people commissioned to guard the prisoner, that they might gratify him in this respect.
I then landed with the marines, and Mr Fannin staid to guard the boat.
Our whole force would have been barely sufficient to have gone up the hill; and to have ventured with half (for half must have been left to guard the boat) would have been fool-hardiness.
And he who was to guard the passage-way at once breaks his lance and lets the two pieces fall; the other strikes him in the neck, reaching him beneath the shield, and throws him over prostrate upon the stones.
He orders John to guard the tower, so that no one shall enter against his will.
What importance, then, had he, except that importance which his persecutors were most unwisely giving him by breaking through all the fences which guard the lives of Englishmen in order to destroy him?
No doubt a Rapparee who had run away at Newton Butler and the Boyne might find courage enough to guard the scaffolds on which his conquerors were to die, and to lay waste our country as he had laid waste his own.
The greater part of the armament might then return to guard the Channel, while Rooke, with twenty sail, might accompany the trading vessels and might protect them against the squadron which lay at Toulon.
With him was the Chevalier de Vaudreuil, who had just arrived from France in command of the eight hundred men left to guard the colony, and who, eager to take part in the campaign, had pushed forward alone to join the army.
Schuyler's strength was reduced by 27 men left to guard the canoes, and by a number killed or disabled at La Prairie.
Troops were detailed to guard the settlers at their work in the fields, and officers and men were enjoined to use the utmost vigilance.
He afterwards asked that the force at his disposal should be increased to 500 men, to guard the frontier; and the request was not granted.
The Baron de Centeville repeated his instructions, and then undertook to guard the door, while his son saw Alberic set off on his expedition.
The French have taken the keeping of the doors; indeed they are so thick through the Castle that I can hardly reach one of our men, nor could I spare one hand that may avail to guard the boy to-morrow.
Orders were given to the other commanders to form immediately, and in ten minutes they were all marching to the battle-field, except the battalion of Michigan Engineers and a company of the Thirty-eighth Ohio, detailed to guard the camp.
Moore, at Hartsville, where he had been posted by Thomas to guard the ford of the Cumberland River, and to watch the enemy on the Lebanon road.
They also constructed a fort, with a permanent garrison, to guard the temple of Zeus in the suburb of Polichne, and drove piles into the sea at all the landing-places of the Great Harbour.
A small body of troops was left to guard the camp, and all the rest, except such as were totally disabled by sickness, were distributed as fighting-men among the ships.
He himself, with Eurymedon and Menander, took the command, and the whole Athenian army was engaged in the adventure, except those who remained behind with Nicias to guard the camp.
Enemies are coming against him and his people, and he calls upon all the men here about him to help him to guard the land.
They are river nymphs, or something of the sort, and they are here to guard the gold, lest anybody should try to steal it.
For one instant in looking at her he forgets to guard the spear; he lets it go from his hand, the magician seizes it and strikes the King with it in the side.
Whispering to Mr. Errol to guard the door, and to the Squire to stand by the wardrobe, he took the lamp from Mr. Perrowne and flashed it under and over the bed.
Carruthers cried hastily, regaining his natural speech; "we must take off these haverals, Sylvanus and Toner, and bring them in to guard the prisoners.
All were armed with loaded guns and rifles; the carbine and the blunderbuss remained to guard the house.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guard the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
