22 Metaphors for guarding

The National Guard might become janissaries.

At first, out of mere shame, the National Guard attempted to justify themselves: "they had been told," they said, "that the Body-guard were the aggressors; that they had attacked the people."

The very guards who surrounded them are the persons who threaten them most.

On arrival at El Kala the guards will form up facing steps on the opposite (i.e. east) side of El Maukaf Street, the British guard being thus on the left, Italian guard on the right of the line, and remain at the slope.

He could not be shackled while climbing along the cliff slopes; he could not be shackled in the canoes, where there was always chance of upset and drowning; and standing guard would be an additional and severe penalty on the weary, honest men already exhausted by overwork.

The Home Guard is frequently a cavalry corps, and is always composed of men who have passed the usual term of military service; for it is deemed necessary to reserve the youth of the country to meet the "Northern masses," the "Federal mercenaries," on the field of possible battle.

The savage's blood-feud, the elements' strife, Whose guard was the Cross, at his peak proudly flying, Whose fare was the bread and the water of life?"]

The advance guard is a detachment of the main body which precedes and covers it on the march.

The right guard, Morris, was a pitiable sight as, with white, drawn face, he stood up under the terrific assault, staggering, with half-closed eyes, to hold the line.

Pretty managed by his skill in lawn-tennis to make the position of right-guard, and the left-guard was the chief of the Crows, MacManus.

The hunting guard is no restraint at all unless the hat flies off, in which case it keeps it from following the example of John Gilpin's, but with the Henry Heath lining, your hat is perfectly secure in anything from a Texas Norther to a New England east wind.

The guard immediately behind me was a man I knew.

And so, maybe, from sheer contrariness Some day a guard may be a slight success; At any rate you cannot well do worse.

The guard of Nubian eunuchs with their black glossy countenances, clothed in scarlet and gold, waving their glittering Damascus sabres, and gently bounding on their snow-white steeds, is, perhaps, the most picturesque corps in the world.

LXV.The only guards provided against all these contingencies were twenty-two cohorts, which were collected from the entire province by Lucius Caesar, the lieutenant, and opposed to the enemy in every quarter.

The Home Guard is a volunteer police force, raised because of the absence of so many of the young men of the city at the islands, and because of the supposed necessity of keeping a strong hand over the negroes.

And, in his tone there was a buoyancy, a hint of something new to hersomething almost decisive, something of protection which began vaguely to thrill her, as though that guard which she had so long mounted over herself might be relievedthe strain relaxed-the duty left to him.

To slide past so many guards so easily was a net gain indeed.

The old guard were naturally the mentors, and it was a pleasure to watch the skill with which they performed their tasks.

The continued uneasiness of Fingal prevented his master from again giving way to sleep until after day had dawned, when his faithful guard became tranquil, and he likewise sought the repose which he greatly needed before recommencing his fatiguing journey.

His Majesty's guards shall not be half so well equipt.

" The doctor stalked haughtily away, and then said in a low voice to her companions that the old guard was an imbecile.

22 Metaphors for  guarding