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Example sentences for "watch over"

  • They are bewitched, and are obliged to watch over a great treasure which is below in the tower, and they can have no rest until it is taken away, and I have likewise learnt, from their discourse, how that is to be done.

  • And there was a good fairy too, who was fond of the princess, and helped her mother to watch over her.

  • It is wicked to feel blue and downhearted, with baby and all the kind friends to watch over me, as you say; and then God is always near.

  • I beseech De, oh Lord, to watch over her, clothe her in raiment en vestures en feed her on manna en lead her li'l foots into de straight en narrer paths to de glory of Dy righteousness.

  • Thank you, and now good night, my dear friend; you are the last old comrade to whom I shall give an order--watch over my wife and child.

  • Engage thy wife, or friend, to watch over thee, and not to suffer thee to go to the alehouse, nor to drink more than is profitable to thy health.

  • Desire your friend therefore to watch over you in this: and amend what he telleth you of; and be not so foolish as to take part with your fault against your friend.

  • If less means prevail not, open thy case to some able, faithful friend, and engage them to watch over thee; and tell them when thou art most endangered by the temptation.

  • If a search were made, he would like to be at hand, so that Mrs. Meyrick might not be unaided in meeting any consequences-- supposing that she would generously continue to watch over Mirah.

  • My having found her binds me to watch over her.

  • But the chief reason is, that Mirah will desire to watch over you, and that you ought to give her the guardianship of a brother's presence.

  • No, not while there is an Almighty One to watch over us.

  • Bryant has promised to watch over you, and the Carltons are kind friends.

  • Bryant has promised to watch over us: and surely you have implicit confidence in both his judgment and honor.

  • He has promised to watch over you; tell him to take you from here--from this cursed place.

  • And if our guardian angel Gabriel should return," added Blanche, "we will ask him to watch over Djalma as over ourselves.

  • Faringhea, who has been able to convince him of his affection, remains to watch over him.

  • Why then should it be morbid to think of the spirits of those He has called home being near to help us, to watch over us?

  • And I am allowed to watch over him, to protect him, to help him.

  • Do you not think it natural that that person should seek to watch over you?

  • There I was an object of her especial care, though not to her especial comfort, for she spent many a sleepless night to watch over me.

  • Mr. Sands had agreed that Benny might go to the north whenever his uncle Phillip could go with him; and I was anxious to be there also, to watch over my children, and protect them so far as I was able.

  • I felt confident that I should go to New York myself; and then I should be able to watch over her, and in some degree protect her.

  • Good-bye, and the devil take you but watch over my sister; I care precious little for your old carcass, so long as the girl runs no danger.

  • Let me watch over him," she said; "he is my father.

  • I belong entirely to you, and you alone have the right to watch over me.

  • Leave him to watch over me, and over him who is dearer to me than all the crowns in the world.

  • Watch over my son," he said in a choking voice.

  • Watch over him," Cuellar said to the Count, "I know Don Melchior, he is a thorough Indian.

  • I swore to your father not only to watch over you, but to secure your happiness by all the means in my power.

  • One pullet was its especial favourite; it accompanied her every day to her nest under the boards of an out-house, and would then lie down outside, as if to watch over her.

  • You cannot expect, like him, to have a sagacious horse to watch over you.

  • Dear young reader, when you have the property of another person to watch over, guard it as effectually as did honest Bob his master's paddock.

  • His faithful steed, which had the character of being a vicious horse, instead of galloping home, as might have been expected, stood by his prostrate master, keeping as strict a watch over him as a dog could have done.

  • I have tried to watch over John as though he were my only son.

  • I intended to ask you to take care of him as I have tried to do, to watch over him, to comfort him, to sympathize with him, to be truly his helpmate.

  • The most I can do is to hope that you will do what I have always tried to do ever since I married John--and long before, too--and that is to make him happy and to watch over him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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