This puzzle's perimeter entries are all types of them

Usage examples of guards.

All he cared about now was getting past the guards before delirium set in.

The air was still, which would make it harder to slip by the guards, but easier to hear the approach of their prey.

He still clutched the stone in his right hand, and now, with the guards approaching, he heaved it with all his might, up into the night sky and over the wall to the other side.

As they crossed through the inner gatehouse, however, one of the guards stopped them.

Xaver was confronted by two guards, both of them looking tall and burly in the torchlight.

Javan had them stop so that he could summon two of his guards to the front of the company.

Xaver could see the gate clearly now, as well as the guards standing on either side of it.

As they drew nearer, two men joined these guards, both of them carrying golden horns that shone in the sun.

Most of them turned away before reaching the castle guards, but Cadel continued to the gate and started to walk through as if he belonged there.

The later it got, the lower Panya would be in the night sky, and the harder it would be for the castle guards to see him climbing like a spider across the wall of the inner keep.

He already knew most of what his father told him, having heard it all from guards, servants, and some of the older boys in the court, and their ride seemed to last twenty years.

The tower was quiet, and there were guards posted at the top of the stairs.

There she found two more guards near the rooms of the duke of Curgh and his company.

Had the guards not been holding him, he would have fallen to the floor.

An instant later he turned his back on them and returned to his discussion with the guards, as if the duke and Fotir were of no consequence at all.