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am guarding

  • present progressive
    of guard (1st person singular).
    guard
    verb (used with object)
    to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over.

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M. Yon answered smiling,— "I am in truth watching, not against you, but for you; I am guarding you."

From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

I am guarding the frontiers, because as there are few men here and the fort is in Manila, they were in need of reënforcements.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 10 of 55 1597-1599 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

"Oh, Honour of the Section, I am guarding you like my life!"

From The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold

Say that I have that sacred instrument here at the White House, and I am guarding it with great care.'

From Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure

"Taylor," said Lincoln, with his frankness, which resembled impiety now, "go back and tell Chase not to bother about the Constitution--I have that sacred instrument here, and am guarding it with great care!"

From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Henry Llewellyn Williams