guardingly

Katie sat beside her, an arm thrown lightly about Ann's shoulders -- lightly but guardingly.

The Visioning Susan Glaspell 1915

And she laid her little nicely-gloved hand across her homely parcel, guardingly.

Real Folks 1865

To change a subject which he found wrought too powerfully on the recently-regained serenity of his mind, he affectionately inquired for the amiable boy he had seen take so touching an interest in the mournful errand to the church-yard on that ever-remembered day, and who, like a ministering seraph, had so guardingly watched the exposed head of his revered master, under the pitiless element then pouring down.

Thaddeus of Warsaw Jane Porter 1813