1 Yes, he is my legal ward and I am responsible for him.
2 She lunged for him, swift as a cat, but with a light startled movement, he sidestepped, throwing up his arm to ward her off.
3 Into a ward of whitewashed walls Where the dead and dying lay-- Wounded with bayonets, shells and balls-- Somebody's darling was borne one day.
4 The young ladies of the town, who were not permitted to nurse for fear they would see sights unfit for virgin eyes, had the convalescent wards in their charge.
5 The old lady had recognized Ellen's handwriting and her fat little mouth was pursed in a frightened way, like a baby who fears a scolding and hopes to ward it off by tears.
6 "You'd be glad to do without me if you knew what I really think of you," thought Scarlett sourly, wishing there were some other person than Melanie to help ward off Gerald's wrath.
7 Drill always ended in the saloons of Jonesboro, and by nightfall so many fights had broken out that the officers were hard put to ward off casualties until the Yankees could inflict them.
8 Flies, mosquitoes and gnats hovered in droning, singing swarms over the wards, tormenting the men to curses and weak sobs; and Scarlett, scratching her own mosquito bites, swung palmetto fans until her shoulders ached and she wished that all the men were dead.