1 Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
2 The old lady had recognized Ellen's handwriting and her fat little mouth was pursed in a frightened way, like a baby who fears a scolding and hopes to ward it off by tears.
3 "You'd be glad to do without me if you knew what I really think of you," thought Scarlett sourly, wishing there were some other person than Melanie to help ward off Gerald's wrath.
4 Into a ward of whitewashed walls Where the dead and dying lay-- Wounded with bayonets, shells and balls-- Somebody's darling was borne one day.
5 Yes, he is my legal ward and I am responsible for him.
6 She lunged for him, swift as a cat, but with a light startled movement, he sidestepped, throwing up his arm to ward her off.
7 Her hand still clung to Gerty's as if to ward off evil dreams, but the hold of her fingers relaxed, her head sank deeper into its shelter, and Gerty felt that she slept.
8 In return for this the Republicans would agree to put up no candidate the following year, when Scully himself came up for reelection as the other alderman from the ward.
9 That night he sat up with his gun and kept watch and ward.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 10 In the meantime, Mrs. Sparsit kept unwinking watch and ward.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 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.