upon one's guard
Example Sentences
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Is it possible, under such circumstances, always to be upon one's guard?
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
He had known in abundance women of courage, women of skill in dissimulation, but he remembered that when they were both beautiful and clever it was the part of wisdom to be upon one's guard.
From The Secret Witness by Gibbs, George
To stand upon one’s guard against Death exasperates her malice and protracts our sufferings.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
Their preoccupation spread around them an atmosphere of "constraint and ennui; one had to be upon one's guard and to check oneself."
From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John
It is well to be upon one's guard.
From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss
