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Definition of Keep guard
1. Verb. Watch over so as to protect. "The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keep Guard
Literary usage of Keep guard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... and to keep guard in the cook-room, to prevent the men's taking it to eat raw,
or taking it out of the pot before it was well boiled, and then to give ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"Tho Athenians also -sent twenty ships to cruise round tho Péloponnèse, and to
keep guard that none might cross over from Corinth and tho Péloponnèse to ..."
3. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... but Lithuania also : mean time the two generals of Poland with 12000 men each
keep guard near Warsaw. The French are providing with all necessaries ..."
4. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1872)
"Before sunset we had reached the valley, and passing under the shadow of El
Capitan (Tu-toch-ah-nu-lah), whose bold promontory seems to keep guard over the ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... observe, take notice of. The same root is found in all the Finnish languages
with no appearance of being borrowed. Lap. -wäret, to keep, guard ..."
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