Example Sentences

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Mrs. Harrington would settle a liberal income on you, contingent, of course, of your faithful wardership over Allan.

From The Rose-Garden Husband by Widdemer, Margaret

The ladies were back in their own homes, and the crippled Blackbirds were bottled up in the Happy Valley, under the wardership of Sandy Lean and his wife and a small guard of Torch men.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

At the last, for he surely would not be hanged, I might meet the prisoner again, ruling blank account-forms in the Central Jail, and cheer him with the hope of a wardership in the Andamans.

From Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Kipling, Rudyard

Then, before I could utter a word of remonstrance, Tom had dashed off, leaving me to my loathsome wardership.

From The Golden Magnet by Fenn, George Manville

There was no sound or sign of wardership.

From Carette of Sark by Oxenham, John