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What guards the purity of melting Maids,
In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades,
Dictionary Entry
A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.
In a Sentence
“The prison guard unlocked the door of the cell. After completing the repairs, he replaced the sump guard.”
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Common Phrases
. guardsguards securityguards redguards nationalguards horseguards armedguards two
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Poetry examples for “guards”
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Read full poem →Assume what sexes and what shapes they please.
What guards the purity of melting maids,
In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades,
Read full poem →From far, from prison;
And the guards by it keeping it we beheld asleep,
But thou wast risen.
Read full poem →With simple joys and quiet happiness
He guards the vision of the sunset sky;
Though faint with weariness he must possess
Read full poem →IN Talbot. — Captain in the Guards ;
Excise farmer; Commissioner of
Read full poem →mon beyond sea, at the Restoration was
made Paymaster to the Guards, where he
has cheated ^100,000; and is one of the
Read full poem →Behold thy kinsman[138] CÊsar's prosperous bands,
Who guards the[139] conquered with his conquering hands.
Read full poem →Lee. They met in strife; they parted in kindness; now
glory guards with selemn round the bivouac of the dead ;
Southerners mourn for Lee, their Christian hero; the nation
Read full poem →it is their duty, to throw off such government,and to provide
new guards for their futire security. Such has been the -
patient suff>rance of these coloniss, and such is now the