17 Metaphors for warding

The dormitories were clean, but the ward was not his old bedroom up the worm-eaten steps, with the slanting ceiling, where as he woke in the morning he could hear the sparrows chirping, the chaffinch calling, and the lark singing aloft.

WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE, English theologian; was a zealous promoter of the Tractarian Movement, and led the way in carrying out its principles to their logical issue by joining the Church of Rome; he was a broad-minded man withal, and won the regard of men of every school; became editor of the Dublin Review (1812-1882).

And thence, by degrees that were more imperceptible in the case of such a government than they could have been in a larger and more regularly administered state, Ward became the recognised, and nearly all-powerful head, manager, and ruler of the little Duchy of Lucca.

Ward was a native of Massachusetts, a worthy man, but not distinguished for military capacity.

ARTEMUS WARD, travelling showman and philosopher, whose adventures and sayings as given by Charles Brown were a new departure in the history of American dialect literature (1862).

Let the Ward be a Beauty, her Confident shall treat you with an Air of Distance; let her be a Fortune, and she assumes the suspicious Behaviour of her Friend and Patroness.

After the death of Sir Thomas, Mr. Ward became an engraver.

Mrs. Ward was a pupil of the Bloomsbury Art School and of Sak's Academy.

And thence, by degrees that were more imperceptible in the case of such a government than they could have been in a larger and more regularly administered state, Ward became the recognised, and nearly all-powerful head, manager, and ruler of the little Duchy of Lucca.

That ward of the city was the Florentine quartier St. Germain.]

S.R. Ward, a scholar of some note, was for a few years the pastor of a white church at Courtlandville, New York.

When, on leaving him, Veronica deposited the traditional and perfunctory kiss upon his sapphire ring, Cardinal Campodonico felt that his late ward had been a match for him at all points, and that after all it was not such a great thing to be a man, if one could not do better than he had done.

ward is here a suffix meaning course, direction to, motion towards.

Col. Ward, the deceased, was a man of high standing in the state, and very much esteemed by his neighbors, and by all who knew him.

Sir Hotham Ward, however, was too skilful a seaman to neglect the advantage Mons.

Eugénie was dearer to him than any other human being, and Welbyhis ward, the orphan child of one of his oldest friendshad been from his boyhood almost a son of the house.

Mrs Humphrey Ward is not the only opponent of women's suffrage to state that the atmosphere of girls' schools suffers from the preponderating spinster element.

17 Metaphors for  warding