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Definition of Stand guard
1. Verb. Watch over so as to protect. "The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stand Guard
Literary usage of Stand guard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"May our name not have to stand guard on that! .. . HENRY ADAMS TO CHARLES FRANCIS
ADAMS, JR. London, December 9,1864 • ••••••••• OF course Sherman's march ..."
2. A History of Boston: The Metropolis of Massachusetts, from Its Origin to the by Caleb Hopkins Snow (1828)
"Fresh soldiers were sent to stand guard during the night, and the next day all
were removed to Boston. The loss of the British was 73 killed, 26 missing, ..."
3. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"even the name of the palace or public place over which they stand guard ; and
though invariably civil, you might as well put a question to a statue of an ..."
4. Ten Years in Wall Street: Or, Revelations of Inside Life and Experience on by William Worthington Fowler (1870)
"A Bold Stroke for Fortune- On the Rack Once More—E and Myself stand guard Over
12000000—A Speculator's Dream—The Fatal Order Given and We ..."
5. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"even the name of the palace or public place over which they stand guard ; and
though invariably civil, you might as well put a question to a statue of an ..."
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