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    1. This is Section 7, our coma ward


    2. He’s a ward of the state


    3. As I noted, he’s a ward of the


    4. Cobb could have sent Bill Ward


    5. Benjamin was put in a special ward where he was connected to


    6. When a few hours later we were let in the special ward, where Ben-


    7. He went straight to the intensive care and found that there was no-one guarding the ward


    8. stay in the hospital’s oncological ward my Bible accumulated a multitude


    9. ‘Taunton hospital … private ward


    10. Behind the ward walls,

    11. with visits to the cancer ward


    12. The Yogis maintain that you are only as old as your spine and that by keeping the spine in a flexible, elastic and healthy condition you can ward off old age for longer than you think


    13. Soon after having my 19th birthday party in a psychiatric ward, all too soon it was finally time to go


    14. During the raging some had yelled and cursed and some threw rocks to ward off the devils in that boat but most had stood in fear


    15. The doctor came to Govind's ward at 7 a


    16. 'Aunty, isn't it strange that all the men in the ward are crying while the women


    17. about him to ward off the cold


    18. The Ash Ward must be protected if the Barrier is


    19. Elucia looked surprised, ‘The Ward of the Flame


    20. You are the Ward,

    21. about being a Ward, and whatever that entails


    22. He deals with the police calmly, making a note of the hospital address and ward name


    23. shrugged, ‘Well it seems, the Ward has become


    24. Dave guides Carol through the same scuffed corridors that Billy followed when she kicked him off the ward earlier that morning


    25. The place is busier now, bustling with general ward visitors and staff


    26. Quickly checking the ward names on the board behind the porter's head, he asks for Bassett, explaining that his sister has just had her second little boy


    27. Blue signs indicate Capener Ward and Surgical


    28. Ward commented that 'Spalding's Team' might return to their streak of pennants soon


    29. Ward was visibly appeased by this confident assertion


    30. and this is young Henry Livingson of California, soon of Malvern College, England, a sharp head for business and my new ward

    31. Chrissie was in a room on her own, the nurse told him, set apart from the main medical ward of the old fashioned country hospital which had somehow survived the reorganisation afflicting the rest of the NHS and, as Jarvis walked along the corridor, he reflected on how lucky they were in their part of the world,


    32. Henry Livingson is a ward of my father's and Miss Spelman is, well, a dear friend of the family


    33. only other teenager in the ward, and this girl was


    34. He drew his cloak closer around his shoulders to ward off the chill and set to his work


    35. I held up my hand to ward of her questions


    36. mom in the mental ward


    37. They were generally at the same time erected into a commonalty or corporation, with the privilege of having magistrates and a town-council of their own, of making bye-laws for their own government, of building walls for their own defence, and of reducing all their inhabitants under a sort of military discipline, by obliging them to watch and ward; that is, as anciently understood, to guard and defend those walls against all attacks and surprises, by night as well as by day


    38. He was expected at the infirmary and the staff quickly escorted them to the private ward where his father lay


    39. Once there, you’re the ward of the Praefect


    40. It was a relief and a blessing how their mutual remembrances did well to ward off the most wrenching pain of the heart

    41. “What my colleague is chastening me concerning is that clients ten, fourteen and eighteen,” she hooked her thumb over her shoulder at the ward behind them, “are clearly over-medicated! The Captain can't possibly expect to have what he wants from clients stuck in la-la land all the time!” Jista held her breath, this was a dangerous gambit Reia was playing


    42. With that the boy put his mouth to the joystick and trundled back to his own ward


    43. In some ways she quite enjoyed being on the ward


    44. A couple of the days ago the consultant had asked the registrar why she was still on the ward, ‘Does she not have a home to go to?’ he had asked bluntly


    45. “I don’t know why there was such a fuss about such a small thing”, and she pushed her trolley with the dirty dressings on it and waltzed away down the ward


    46. The only thing that hadn’t changed was the cries of the wounded men in agony or the mutterings of the fever ridden and we knew that the serious dysentery cases were all in one ward on the port side


    47. When you looked round the ward you could see men both arms missing men with one or two legs missing men who had been eviscerated and emasculated


    48. We were eventually transferred to No 19 General Hospital in Alexandria and as luck would have it we were all kept together and put in the same ward


    49. A lot of the time we would sit out in the gardens that surrounded the hospital and the warm sun and fresh air made a wonderful change from the antiseptic smell of the ward


    50. ” The lads left after saying their goodbyes to Archie and the ward seemed a sadder place for their leaving and I would be glad to get out of here as it was getting a bit depressing now














































    1. Why was Arbitan keeping the clippings? For a moment, she wondered if he might be the wizard who warded the house—and created deadly magical creatures—but she snorted in dismissal


    2. “Furthermore, there are two races that are kept in quarantine in Warded reserves in Xervia by the Grand Council


    3. “This is now the most heavily Shielded and Warded place on Kellaran


    4. It is Warded and heavily patrolled by a vigorous Sylvan naval blockade force of fearsome military capability, both physical and magical


    5. At the moment of your Translocation, thousands of decoy versions of you will be Translocated to similarly Warded Locations all over The Just Alliance


    6. “We’ll keep augmenting our defenses until every wall and roof is thick steel and every building is Warded, or until the Nexus is past, whichever comes first


    7. “It is incredibly heavily Shielded and Warded!” Somonik reported after a few seconds


    8. “When they see one or more of our citizens emerge from the safety of shielded and Warded zones and buildings, they call an attack force of two to three million Sylvan and a few thousand dragons


    9. Corwin warded the room once he’d left and slowly pulled on his gloves and cape


    10. In the morning, they met for breakfast in the warded room where they ate fitfully and quickly

    11. The area around the Castle was warded and she could not transport herself into the tower without first crossing the boundaries


    12. ” She warded the room against such a creature but Bremer stopped her


    13. They mocked her, told her to blow her best against their warded gates and when the magicked steel and wood went up in flames, capitulated too late to save the central city


    14. Drugged and a puppet, poisoned with silver nitrate and warded with the most powerful spells I know


    15. Frank leaped after him, grasping for it, but George’s huge bulk warded him off


    16. It was warded


    17. “The walls are warded, love


    18. its own side effects and had to be warded against when


    19. Jayden is trying to contain them and I have warded the door


    20. And that condition implied a destruction to follow, except it be warded off by holiness

    21. Shut that gate! Barricade those ladders! Here with your stink-pots of pitch and resin, and kettles of boiling oil! Block the streets with feather beds!" In short, in his ardour he mentioned every little thing, and every implement and engine of war by means of which an assault upon a city is warded off, while the bruised and battered Sancho, who heard and suffered all, was saying to himself, "O if it would only please the Lord to let the island be lost at once, and I could see myself either dead or out of this torture!" Heaven heard his prayer, and when he least expected it he heard voices exclaiming, "Victory, victory! The enemy retreats beaten! Come, senor governor, get up, and come and enjoy the victory, and divide the spoils that have been won from the foe by the might of that invincible arm


    22. I have warded him out of my tangle of linens with blood-magic, an art I’d sworn never to practice, a line I wouldn’t cross


    23. Now I realize how lucky I was that we’d warded the Book on top of an altar


    24. Far beneath it, accessible only through the heavily warded Silver in the bookstore, are Jericho Barrons’s living quarters


    25. Twenty years ago it was led by Mac’s mother, Isla O’Connor, but the Haven got wind of Rowena tampering with black arts and suspected she’d been seduced by the Sinsar Dubh, which was locked away beneath the abbey in a heavily warded cavern


    26. So thin, so frail and thin, the veils were become that still warded it off


    27. We’re on an upper floor, and the house is warded, isn’t it?”


    28. Henry had said the house was warded, but surely the other magisters warded their homes and yet they had been damaged


    29. His opponent warded off the blow with his own shield


    30. He warded blows with his shield as best he could and swung his axe lustily at any Brokenheart who ventured into range

    1. Rather than warding them off, the zombies seemed drawn by the gunfire


    2. “This is Fire on the Water,” she said as stepped in again, four long strides, flicking the blade in precise wide cuts that was created for warding off demons


    3. The survivors took care that the few captured scripts, and warding symbols, were handed to proper


    4. Now, if you are refusing to see them, I can marvel at your willpower and I certainly respect it’s your prerogative to not see things; but the fact remains, there’s about at least three hundred zombies coming our way, and all that stands between them and your brain is this warding circle,” Steve told me with a feeling of acute worry in his voice


    5. I had been signing paper after paper concerning logistics supplies, administrative reorganization efforts and most notably, putting into full effective force the discontinuation of the practice of using those awful papal mitres and other silly hats as warding devices


    6. Warding you with the price of life, which often you demand


    7. The scribe’s childhood memory was a powerful one, that much is true, and would have gained them some time; the memories and stories of a mind-dweller are always strong in warding off mental attack, but only while they are being remembered or narrated, and for a while afterwards


    8. Reoren, the lich-troll uttered a warding spell to thwart the attackers


    9. A red ring of warding covered the perimeter of the sizeable party


    10. The mages, Alex, Gilead, Leif, Reoren and Sigrid combined their magical resources to generate a ring of warding around the defenders of the town

    11. The anthromorphs and gorgons followed the advice of the beholder and withdrew from Alex’s warding ring


    12. He shuddered and drew back, making the signs of a warding spell before me


    13. “Not like this,” he summarized, warding off the blow she directed at his stomach


    14. Unless he was warding off competition, or laying his claim on her, Jared had been more reserved and private with his affections


    15. In her fury she had picked up a bread knife from the draining board to defend herself, warding him off


    16. Many gestures, movements, the cry of the muezzin, the raising of the hands, etc, have been shown to be animistic in origin, warding off evil spirits


    17. She had backed into a corner and stood with her arms out, warding them off


    18. It had made one complete journey around the circumference, not once entering the space above the clearing, as if an invisible electrified fence had been erected at the perimeter and extended to the tree tops, warding off the flying menace


    19. These familiar buildings are interspersed with newer abodes with tremendous windows that can’t be sensible for temperature regulation or for warding off potential intruders


    20. The air had a clean, crisp scent, as if the mountains had hoarded winter and breathed its chilling breath from the rocks, warding off the sun

    21. Besides she had found that to be forewarned of the Matchmaking Meadows, the better prepared one was for warding off their stupid cupid attempts


    22. You’ve come here with the apparent intent of warding off my resurrection, here to the apex of the Dark Arts, but the irony is that you have instead facilitated my quest


    23. In the first six chapters of this book we have heard the part that diet plays in warding off heart


    24. BLOOM: (Warding off a blow) To show you how he hit the paper


    25. And the dead woman, the woman who had spent her life in warding off this danger, took shape also to my imagination, and I saw her as a shadowy but beautiful presence which intervened for ever with arms uplifted to screen the man whom she loved


    26. smokestack, we were alternately jostled together, then strained, nearly sundered, arms and fingers interlocked as I held the rail and Julia clung to me, thrust together again, drawn apart; then, in a plunge deeper than the rest, I found myself flung across her, pressing her against the rail, warding myself off her with the arms that held her prisoner on either side, and as the ship paused at the end of its drop as though gathering strength for the ascent, we stood thus embraced, in the open, cheek against cheek, her hair blowing across my eyes; the dark horizon of tumbling water, flashing now with gold, stood still above us, then came sweeping down till I was staring through Julia's dark hair into a wide and golden sky, and she was thrown forward on my heart, held up by my hands on the rail, her face still pressed to mine


    27. corner of the house, waving his arms as if he was warding off the rain - and indeed when he sprang over the threshold he seemed quite dry, except for his boots


    28. When he came to himself, a man of clerical appearance with a tuft of gray hair at the back of his head and wearing a shabby blue cassock- probably a church clerk and chanter- was holding him under the arm with one hand while warding off the pressure of the crowd with the other


    29. He shook hands with me in a friendly, but not over-friendly, fashion, with a sort of circumspect courtesy like that of a General, as though in giving me his hand he were warding off something


    30. When he came to himself, a man of clerical appearance with a tuft of gray hair at the back of his head and wearing a shabby blue cassock—probably a church clerk and chanter—was holding him under the arm with one hand while warding off the pressure of the crowd with the other

    1. If they had agents who were able to infiltrate his ship using instruments they weren’t even supposed to have, they certainly had agents that could infiltrate the charity wards where his mother was kept


    2. And many children found themselves as wards of Lord Tarak's household; much to the joy of Lady Rayne


    3. Their footsteps echo off matt blue walls as they pass wards and treatment areas signed in white lettering on blue metal


    4. The wards begin their day around six in the morning


    5. and their wards, but luck had deserted him


    6. It is, for most wards, a popular time for visiting


    7. They both started in the Democratic Party in the Puerto Rican wards of Nuevo York when it was New York


    8. nurses, the best wards, the best doctors


    9. We entered the harbour of Moudros and there we were transferred to the liner Mauritania which had been turned into a hospital ship the public rooms had been turned into wards Officers had the cabins and the dinning rooms had been turned into operating theatres


    10. I thought to myself this is more like it the large public rooms kitted out as wards were roomy and airy and the décor of them was both elegant and opulent I mean after all this had been one of the worlds finest liners

    11. I read the signs on the walls that directed people to different wards and other places in the building then I saw the one I wanted this pointed to Dr Sullivan’s clinic which was the one I wanted so I followed the arrows that pointed the way


    12. Shields and wards were part of her early training, followed by calling down lightning from a cloudless sky and making the earth erupt into walls of flame


    13. “They are creating wards against evil with the song, aren’t they?” Wil asked


    14. Pleased to see his wards again, the Madra guide was animated in his welcome


    15. She looked carefully around the forest and made afresh the wards to keep her from being detected


    16. “The wards are invisible until you smack into them like a concrete wall


    17. ” She had almost handed Sicarius the second invite anyway, but Akstyr had implied the house’s guardian wards would detect name swaps


    18. If magical wards protected the grounds, might not something protect Larocka’s suite?


    19. Hollowcrest brought a shaman to break through the wards and has surrounded the house with a company of soldiers


    20. “This house is protected by more than wards

    21. Doctors were brought in to help and the women were divided between the two wards that were established


    22. The court ruled the federal government was legally bound to treat Indians as wards of the state and provide healthcare, education and legal protection


    23. Johnson, wards,” he said, prompting Steve to jump up from his seat like a spring


    24. “But, sir! Regulations clearly state that wards are to be warn at all times!”


    25. wards, I suppose, I looked normal again, except that the tan


    26. He left Odin, Bao and I, as able wards to this world, and we swore to protect it


    27. The Bulgarian government offered inmates in prisons and psychiatric wards


    28. children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the Lord, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards


    29. the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the Lord


    30. “There are countless psychic wards

    31. all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, everyone in his business; 31 and for the wood offering, at times


    32. At rehab, I was the oldest person at 42 by far out of 40 patients in two 20-bed wards! I also was just about the only "pure alcoholic


    33. Then came the day you visited, to oversee the renewal of the Wards


    34. Skirting the truth to be sure, yet true enough to avoid compromising my honor, I think, because even before you passed the border I could tell that the Illusions and Force barriers of the Wards were not affecting you


    35. “The day before yesterday, the young man who is my daughter’s groom approached the Wards on the border of our lands at the southern pass into First Valley


    36. “I CANNOT APPEAR BEFORE YOU, EVEN IF I SO CHOOSE, FOR YOU STAND BEHIND THE WARDS OF THE NINE VALLEYS!!!”


    37. “Jmia should not have mentioned the word before such a vast assemblage, for our Wards are good, but not of the quality of the ones about Xervia


    38. “You know, Stripe and Scout are a formidable pair of guards, and we stand behind the Wards of The Nine Valleys, and so I should feel your trove to be secure


    39. It offers several layers of automatically activated Illusions, Shielding, Force barriers, and transducing-reflecting spells, the design of which are based on the border Wards of the lands of The People of Rain, in Felion, and there are also giantish and gnomish aspects to some of the spells


    40. “The present system of Wards and segregation was designed to provide defense and prevent infiltration by attackers and criminals, and with the conspiracy active, those concerns are still valid

    41. With this practice, and with the construction of strong Wards, I hope that even those of The Hidden Nation will feel comfortable there


    42. “The militaries of The Just Alliance are melding and redeploying throughout the alliance, civil defense and emergency response corps are forming everywhere, programs for the assistance of the poor and needy are suddenly so over-financed that they’re having to hire extra accountants just to keep track of it all, thousands are swearing binding oaths to justice with every second that passes, laws are being re-written by every government, prisoners are being sworn and prisons closed or renovated for other purposes, Wards are being altered to allow the passage of any who bear the mark of The Just Alliance, and travel between continents is widespread and increasing with every moment


    43. “The other elven nations have similar Wards and defenses, if not of the quality we have here


    44. “The Warm People have the poorest security among them, as they have a large and sparsely populated territory with weaker Wards


    45. “Of your properties, the volcano in Xervia is likely the safest, as the Xervian Wards and security are the best


    46. If you cast your awareness outward, you’ll find around the entire island a concentrated version of the Wards that The Grand Council of Xervia use around their continent, and around their council hall


    47. Beyond those Wards lies a concentrated version of the Wards around The Nine Valleys


    48. Beyond those, more layers of independent Wards, fifty-six in total, cast by every race and nation in The Just Alliance


    49. I should point out that this is an incredible diplomatic triumph! Not one of their citizens have ever been known to venture beyond Xervia’s shores, and now they wish to build a consulate here! Also, since the installation of the extensive Wards here today, combined with the fact that every visitor here is bound by Osbald’s Oath, they now consider this to be the safest place in the world


    50. Despite the many layers of mighty Wards around this entire island, he has some three hundred wizards of the Atoning casting a Battle Shield from the top of the cliffs out and down to the mouth of the cove














































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    Synonyms for "ward"

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    "ward" definitions

    a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another


    a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections


    block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care


    English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)


    English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)


    United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)


    a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)


    watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect