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keep vigil
verb as in patrol
Example Sentences
There were instead families minus a child continuing to keep vigil inside the firehouse.
All night long did the fleet keep vigil, but not a shot, a voice, or even a splash came from the harbor.
Daily he attended seven services, and had often to keep vigil all night long.
And Vesta smiling, promised by that same token to keep vigil by one fire only, the fire that she had kindled in his heart.
Guardians of the precious lives of their own men and destroyers of the enemy's, the guns keep vigil.
The first entry on the pad said: Someone stealing my mushrooms; must keep vigil.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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