Sentence examples for guards the passage from inspiring English sources

Finally, the game ended and the sepulchral white-haired man who guards the passage gestured to us to step over the low-slung chain strung across the gap.

Two frogs facing each other sit in water up to their shoulders, like sentinels guarding the passage between the inner and outer life.

This is where the story is set, where the parrots guard the passage into the underworld.

Migrants stood in front of special security forces and the Macedonia Army guarding the passage, holding placards saying "Open the borders", and, "We are not terrorists".

Refugees stood in front of special security forces and the Macedonia Army guarding the passage, holding placards saying "Open the borders" and "We are not terrorists".

Gondor had long been threatened by the nearby realm of Mordor, and in 3018 the Dark Lord Sauron began the War of the Ring, attacking the ruined city of Osgiliath that guarded the passage to Minas Tirith.

He has been critical in the past of long prison sentences, once describing as "sick" the leading role played by the California prison guards' union in the passage of the state's three-strikes law.

Guarding the rear at the passage of the Sesia, Bayard was mortally wounded by a harquebus ball.

For instance, the passage "And who guard their private parts, except before their mates or those whom their right hands possess, for they surely are not to blame, but whoever seeks to go beyond that, these are they that exceed the limits" (23:5-6-7) was used to argue that masturbation is prohibited by the Qur'an as well as to argue that it is not explicitly mentioned and thus not prohibited.

The passage into the castle was guarded by three portcullises and at least two heavy doors.

The guards tensed and surveyed the distant palm groves every time somebody marked the passage of the cortege by firing into the air.