Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward. Spenser.

For the best ward of mine honor. Shak.

The assieged castle's ward
Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain. Spenser.

For want of other ward,
He lifted up his hand, his front to guard. Dryden.

And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard. Gen. xl. 3.

I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward. Shak.

It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords. Spenser.

(a)

Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight
To ward the same. Spenser.

Tell him it was a hand that warded him
From thousand dangers. Shak.

Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again. Daniel.

The pointed javelin warded off his rage. Addison.

It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections. I. Watts.

She redoubling her blows drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back. Sir P. Sidney.