guard
verb (used with object)
to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over.
guardless
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a word derived from
guard.
Example Sentences
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In front of them, across the meadow, on the other side of the gap in the wall, now guardless, was the town of Wall.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Alas, what weight of anguish hast thou known, Unhappy prince! thus guardless and alone Two pass through foes, and thus undaunted face The man whose fury has destroy'd thy race!
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
Vain are thy hopes, the sainted Power replied, These rich abodes from Spanish hordes to hide, Or teach hard guilt and cruelty to spare The guardless prize of sacrilegious war.
From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel
Ah stay not, stay not! guardless and alone; Hector! my loved, my dearest, bravest son!
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
So on the guardless herd, their keeper slain, Rushes a tiger in the Libyan plain.
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir
