"On one's guard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... believe what a goose he is! Then his voice sounds like a cracked bell; it's the most disagreeable voice you ever heard in your life. And one has always to be on one's guard lest he should make one do something that is—is—that isn't quite the thing for a gentleman. You understand;—what the messenger ought ...
— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope
... criticising my dress, my dinners, the gaucheries of the servants, my moral qualities, even the way I turn my sentences. I shouldn't mind trying to talk my very best English if he were not prying into my motives: it is difficult to be on one's guard in every ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various |
