Protectors
[prə'tɛktɚ]
Examples
- My protectors had departed, and had broken the only link that held me to the world. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I was guided by my father, because I had always found him the truest of all advisers, the best and fondest of all protectors and friends. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I will let it go to my and my sister's only protectors and friends. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I conceived that I was different and superior to my protectors and companions, but I knew not how or wherefore. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mothers, kiss you last--husbands, protectors no more, lead on the partners of your death! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The protectors of Solomon's Temple may claim license by the example of Solomon. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- At that moment I heard the steps of my younger protectors. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The cottage of my protectors had been the only school in which I had studied human nature; but this book developed new and mightier scenes of action. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- And thus philosophy is deserted by her natural protectors, and others enter in and dishonour her. Plato. The Republic.
- My attention, at this time, was solely directed towards my plan of introducing myself into the cottage of my protectors. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But his protectors among the princes were too powerful for him to suffer the fate of John Huss. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Terrence