"Off her guard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... overwrought, excited, and off her guard, and spoke from a deep impulse. "A woman, in giving herself, gives everything. If he can't give up a scruple—I mean if his loyalty is so slight that his mother's wishes and ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... life, and almost ashamed in the open day to look around her. Poor thing! how her heart, that was once innocent and pure, now trembles within a bosom where there is awakened many a painful recollection of early youth, and the happiness of home, before that unfortunate night, when, thrown off her guard by accursed liquor, she ceased to rank among the pure and virtuous. Yes, all these, and a much greater variety, were here actuated by the noble resolution to abandon forever the evil courses, the vices, and the profligacy into which they were first driven ...
— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton
... off her guard, "the letters; my dear old doctor's letters—they are gone; gone." Her feeling seemed out of all ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock |
