Great Expectations vocabulary

When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, Casts down his warder to arrest them there.

Daniel.

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Wafting his warder thrice about his head, He cast it up with his auspicious hand, Which was the signal, through the English spread, This they should charge.

Drayton.

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If thou dost not instantly comply with these just demands, he defies thee to single combat to the last extremity.” And so saying the Herald cast down his warder.

Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto (1764)

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Like an implacable warder to whom one presents a permit signed by a higher authority whose protecting influence one has sought and who, finding it to be in order, replies: “Very well; I have nothing to say; if it’s like that you may pass,

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]

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She who made the bed, being privy to his escape, that night, to blind the warder when he came to lock the chamber-door, went to bed, and possessed Colonel Lambert's place, and put on his night-cap. So, when the said warder came to lock the door, according to his usual manner, he found the curtains drawn, and conceiving it to be Colonel John Lambert, he said, 'Good night, my Lord.'

  Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down,

  Though castles topple on their warders' heads,

  Though palaces and pyramids do slope