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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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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

I am guarding the sleeper, who is my son.”

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 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

It was just as though she were repeating the phrase that Flaubert puts in the Sphinx's mouth, 'I am guarding my secret—I calculate and I dream.'

From The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel by Edgar Saltus

Then he on the other side cries out: "Knight, I am guarding the ford, and forbid you to cross."

From Four Arthurian Romances by William Wistar Comfort

I am guarding the fortresses belonging to the King my Lord, until the arrival of my Lord my God; and lo!

From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Epiphanius Wilson