Sentence examples for i kept vigil from inspiring English sources

"I wept for three days as I kept vigil over Mary's dead body," he said.

Along with some British journalists, I kept vigil at the British Embassy on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré Saint-Honoré

With others who had been TM's law clerks, I kept vigil by the bier for a time.

Throughout the night and the following day, the caretaker, my great aunt and I kept vigil, rubbing my grandmother's feet, holding her hand and sometimes laying our heads on her body to catnap.

I kept vigil with the brothers, offering up my poor prayers for the Abbot's recovery.

In the last 48 hours, my mother and I have kept vigil by my siblings' side — my twin, an adolescent brother and a sister within earshot of her high school valediction.

I kept my vigil for half an hour or so.

I was Senator Kennedy's press secretary, and so I kept whatever vigil I could over the news media from the campaign headquarters on L Street.

On a typical night, there will be actual physical struggles and a great deal of bitter haggling over the particulars — over whether it will be she or I who keeps vigil as he bravely contends against his own fatigue, over how many stories will be read to him and which ones.

I would keep vigil for my father and see that his last wish would come to purposeful, elegant fruition.

For the next four hours, I walked across meadows where wide-eyed cows kept vigil, and then passed into swampland that might have been in southern Louisiana.