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1  Her guardian, however, he is, self-constituted as I believe; but his ward is as dear to him as if she were his own child.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
2  The former feeling gradually gave way before the endearments of his ward, and the pride which he could not help nourishing in the fame of his son.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  An obstacle occurred to this his favourite project, in the mutual attachment of his ward and his son and hence the original cause of the banishment of Wilfred from the house of his father.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  The noble Saxon was so fortunate as to reach his ward's apartment just as she had abandoned all hope of safety, and, with a crucifix clasped in agony to her bosom, sat in expectation of instant death.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  If, leaving this task, which might be compared to spurring a tired jade, or to hammering upon cold iron, Cedric fell back to his ward Rowena, he received little more satisfaction from conferring with her.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  In maintaining this pious watch and ward, the good monks were particularly careful not to interrupt their hymns for an instant, lest Zernebock, the ancient Saxon Apollyon, should lay his clutches on the departed Athelstane.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
7  This stern measure Cedric had adopted, in hopes that, during Wilfred's absence, Rowena might relinquish her preference, but in this hope he was disappointed; a disappointment which might be attributed in part to the mode in which his ward had been educated.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  To counterbalance their royal descent, he had courage, activity, energy, and, above all, that devoted attachment to the cause which had procured him the epithet of The Saxon, and his birth was inferior to none, excepting only that of Athelstane and his ward.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  Cedric, though surprised, and perhaps not altogether agreeably so, at his ward appearing in public on this occasion, hastened to meet her, and to conduct her, with respectful ceremony, to the elevated seat at his own right hand, appropriated to the lady of the mansion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  A band of villains, in the disguise of better men than themselves, have made themselves master of the person of a noble Englishman, called Cedric the Saxon, together with his ward, and his friend Athelstane of Coningsburgh, and have transported them to a castle in this forest, called Torquilstone.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX