Preserves

Examples

• A powerful business corporation still preserves its industrial tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You need not be afraid of unwholesome preserves here. Jane Austen. Emma.
• By this indulgence of the fancy in its inconstancy, the tie of child and parent still preserves its full force and influence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It soon became known that Adrian took great delight in his park and preserves. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He sent over preserves and pickles, which latter the young gentleman tried surreptitiously in the sideboard and half-killed himself with eating. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We all know that leather is the skins of animals, dressed and prepared for our use by tanning, or some other process, which preserves them from rotting and renders them pliable and tough. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By favouring this clandestine escape he preserves a shew of consistency to his followers; but mercy is far from his heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This ground in front belongs to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord Southerton's preserves. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Light stimulates, nourishes, preserves. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The silo has the same relation to cattle feed as the glass fruit jar that mother uses has to the food she preserves in it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Silver in bullion still preserves its proper proportion to gold, for the same reason that copper in bars preserves its proper proportion to silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And it would fill any one with admiration to see how he preserves his self-possession in the presence of a barley sack. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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