He took the chief custodianship of the Sun from him who then held it, and assumed the office himself with the title of "Shepherd of the Sun."
"History of the Incas"
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
The half-caste brothers fell in joyfully with the suggestion, and their first wild proposals were beaten down to forty dollars a month for custodianship and fifteen dollars for the room and the transport of Satterlee's food from the International Hotel-fifty-five dollars in all.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
With the railway in their hands small forces would have been stationed at the important points such as are afforded by the natural drifts, and while they maintained by this system of custodianship an open line of communication, they would, at the same time, have been free to utilise, in a combined and united mass, all of these scattered parties of Boers who were engaged upon marauding expeditions between here and Middle Drift.
"The Siege of Mafeking (1900)"
J. Angus Hamilton