Use preserve in a sentence
Sentences starting with preserve
- Preserve his army, put a bow of brass in the hands of those who have armed themselves in Thy Name, and gird their loins with strength for the fight. [2]
- Preserve my heart, encourage me, according to Thy truth. [11]
- Preserve your innocence, and wherever you go you will bring love, as flowers spring in every spot that is trodden by the golden foot of Hathor. [10]
Sentences ending with preserve
- But what I wish to put on record now, is my new invention--hence this note, which you will preserve. [5]
- Nothing is more unwieldy than our big blanket-sheets: they are awkward to handle, inconvenient to read, unhandy to bind and preserve. [4]
- Yet the proverb says: 'Stretch yourself towards the ceiling, or your feet will freeze--'Necessity knows no law,' and 'Reserve to preserve. [10]
- But the rooster, in his oriental iridescent plumage, jumped upon a fence-post and crowed defiantly, in warning that this was his preserve. [4]
- They were shaped and finished as nicely as if they were breastpins for the Titans to wear, and on their polished surfaces were engraved in imperishable characters the records they were erected to preserve. [6]
- These statements are all well authenticated in many legends that are among the most trustworthy legends the good old Catholic monks preserve. [5]
Short sentences using preserve
- The gods preserve us! [10]
Sentences containing preserve two or more times
- As every one is bound to preserve himself, so he is bound to preserve the rest of mankind, and except to do justice upon an offender we may not impair the life, liberty, health, or goods of another. [4]
More example sentences with the word preserve in them
- The fact--is, Margaret, you've got a sort of preserve up in Brandon, and you fancy that the world is divided into sheep and goats. [4]
- What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
- On this the young man appeared, and though he and Paula did their utmost to preserve a suitable demeanor, every one could see the violent agitation they felt at meeting each other in such a situation. [10]
- Thus they were willing to commit a sin against the spirit of religious law, in order that they might preserve the letter of it. [5]
- The costly urn, which thou wilt receive herewith, is sent by Sappho to preserve the ashes of the deceased. [10]
- Then, if there were anything that a good woman could do to win a man and still preserve her self-respect, it was something which escaped the natural subtlety of a woman determined to allure. [13]
- Hear us when we pray to Thee; strengthen with Thy might our most gracious sovereign lord, the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich; be mindful of his uprightness and meekness, reward him according to his righteousness, and let it preserve us, Thy chosen Israel! [2]
- The fullest stream--he was well aware of it--came from ancient pagan times, but from whatever sources the spring was fed, the Church had understood how to assimilate, preserve, and sanctify it. [10]
- A crowing hen was always an object of interest and distinction; she was pointed out to visitors; the owner was proud of her accomplishment, he was naturally likely to preserve her life, and especially if she could lay. [4]
- One thing only was a pang to his vanity: No succeeding generations would preserve the memory of his heroic struggle and death for the cause of the gods. [10]
- If Heaven had vouchsafed him a miracle, it was done to preserve his life that--as Eva desired--he might fight to the last drop of his blood for the Church, his holy faith, and the beloved Emperor. [10]
- The former preserve us from becoming Europeanized; they keep our pride of country intact, and at the same time they intensify our affection for our country and our people; whereas long visits have the effect of dulling those feelings--at least in the majority of cases. [5]
- We hail only two men who could make speeches for their parties and preserve their honor and their dignity. [5]
- They must first try to save Myrtilus's work and, when that was accomplished, preserve his also from destruction by the flames. [10]
- If you desire to preserve the power I have conquered for you always undiminished, you must keep your eyes open. [10]
- How am I to preserve self-control, calmness, patience, when I see her in the arms of that handsome young demi-god whom I scorned only yesterday as a worthless scoundrel? [10]
- Perhaps he wished to preserve one possible relic of the old life, perhaps he liked this touch of drama; or both. [11]
- It is easier to preserve it on a granite block than in your head. [5]
- Sometimes it seems to me almost of the nature of a misdemeanor to be wandering about in the preserve which the fleshless gamekeeper guards so jealously. [6]
- Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? [7]
- You will have to live, as it were, with that corporation, and help to preserve it. [9]
- We need gold to bid the foe defiance, to preserve the independence of the throne, the country, and the people. [10]
- I send you this, and the accompanying copy, not for publication, but merely to explain to you, and that you may preserve them until their proper time shall come. [7]
- I have seen this power gathering strength, stretching its arm little by little over the institutions I fought to preserve, and which I cherish over our politics, over our government, yes, and even over our courts. [9]
- I believe, however, they are still resolved to preserve their country and their liberties; and in this, in office or out of it, I am resolved to stand by them. [7]
- May Isis preserve them long to thee! [10]
- Shall we send thee thither and preserve thy belly? [5]
- May Serapis preserve thee and thine. [10]
- Be prepared for the worst; then you are armed against failure and preserve your right to hope! [10]
- But they were the type to which he most wished to appeal; of all of his flock, this family seemed best to preserve the vitality and ideals of the city and nation. [9]
- They had discovered the treasure and only needed to preserve it. [10]
- But who beneath the sun who has warm blood in his veins can preserve his composure when juicy grapes are held before his thirsting lips to be withdrawn, as from Tantalus, ere he can taste them? [10]
- It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. [7]
- It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. [7]
- Their cards preserve the intimacy and keep the acquaintanceship intact. [5]
- Some believed in the Commission's scheme to arbitrarily and permanently confine (and thus deepen) the channel, preserve threatened shores, etc. [5]
- In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires. [2]
- He was certain that the seed he had sown in her mind would take root; she could now clearly picture to herself what pleasures she would enjoy as empress, and from what she could preserve others. [10]
- But she knew that the Nile would flow backwards before she could dissuade him from keeping his promise to the abbess, so she forced herself to preserve at any rate outward composure. [10]
- An' to preserve that life is each man's first an' closest thought. [13]
- Does not history teach us that to be a great general, or poet, or philanthropist, is not more certain to preserve one's name than to be the richest man, the Croesus, in his age? [4]
- He was so tall that he had a little difficulty in keeping his balance, and his hat was set upon the back of his head to preserve his equilibrium. [4]
- Stobo might have swung at the yard-arm in this new predicament, had his French valet divulged his identity with the spy of Fort du Quesne; but fortune again stepped in to preserve the adventurous Scot. [11]
- These things are suffering damage and passing to decay, for the last Hirschhorn has been dead two hundred years, and there is nobody now who cares to preserve the family relics. [5]
- Not knowing what she meant to do, but meaning to preserve him or be killed herself, she staggered forward and looked in. [12]
- He does not seem at all suited for the monastic life, and therefore I shall continue to strive to preserve him from it. [10]
- I would have sacrificed all Alexandria to preserve Caesar's mind from gloom and care. [10]
- He even sharply rebuked the Mayor, who urged surgical preparations upon him, for not sending sooner to the Government for a force which could preserve order or prevent the procession. [11]
- They have a pure and lofty religion, and they preserve it in its integrity and order their lives by it. [5]
- If there should prove to be one real living free-State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him, and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be extinct variety of the genus Democrat. [7]
- Esquire Valeer, whose pride was already touched, resolved to preserve the dignity of his family. [5]
- They hastened to preserve the relic. [5]
- He desires to preserve the government, that it may be administered for all as it was administered by the men who made it. [7]
- Its metal will preserve it from the hackings and chippings which so defaced its predecessor, which was of marble; but the brick foundations are crumbling, and it will tumble down by-and-bye. [5]
- The people here preserve all the memorials of Byron; and, I should judge, hold his memory in something like affection. [4]
- At last the portrait-head had found its right position, shrouded still in a cloth to preserve it from the marks of workmen's hands. [10]
- He is to pack it with sand which will preserve it, and have it buried by the side of my mother at Alexandria. [10]
- Wherever they ferret out a lost locality made holy by some Scriptural event, they straightway build a massive--almost imperishable--church there, and preserve the memory of that locality for the gratification of future generations. [5]
- In a generation or two it may be laid aside as no longer necessary, or men may be compelled to resort to it to preserve their supremacy. [4]
- Among the three or four million cradles now rocking in the land are some which this nation would preserve for ages as sacred things, if we could know which ones they are. [5]
- Had he not, only too painfully, experienced that there was a stronger will than his own, and that, easily as he could destroy, it did not be in his power to preserve the life of the meanest creature? [10]
- He read not only the latest intelligence of the strike, but the editorial comments on it, which praised the firm attitude of both parties, and the admirable measures taken by the police to preserve order. [8]
- This peace every one may preserve, aye, even you, a woman, if you constantly do what you recognize to be right, and fulfil the duties you take upon yourself. [10]
- The two passed on, looking, in their cool elegance, as if life were the most pleasant thing; as though the very perfume of their garments would preserve them from that plague called trouble. [11]
- It still depends on Your Majesty to preserve humanity from the calamity of another war. [2]
- The insane oddity of a monument set up in a village to preserve a name that would outlast the hills and the rocks without any such help, would advertise Elmira to the ends of the earth --and draw custom. [5]
- We are much obliged to Professor Thayer therefore for the two following pleasant recollections which he has been good-natured enough to preserve for us, and with which we will take leave of his agreeable little volume:-- "At breakfast we had, among other things, pie. [6]
- The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am, none who would do more to preserve it, but it may be necessary to put the foot down firmly. [7]
- The widow made no advances, and some time passed in indifferent conversation, till Paaker abruptly informed her that he had heard of her son's reckless conduct, and had decided, as being his mother's nearest relation, to preserve her from the degradation that threatened her. [10]
- It is a narrow flagged street, lying under the shadow of St. Paul's; at each end there are posts placed, so as to prevent the passage of carriages, and thus preserve a solemn silence for the deliberations of the "Fathers of the Row. [14]
- Still, in the midst of his self-accusation, the flattering voice made itself heard in his soul: "It is only to preserve your master from sorrow, and it is nothing wrong that you are asked to do. [10]
- The juice that mashed out of it stained a place in the letter, which I mean to preserve and cherish for the sake of her who procured it to be sent. [7]
- For what right-minded man would not desire to preserve others from the misery which once crushed him to earth with its bitter burden?--But you are mistaken. [10]
- This will necessarily make the stoppages frequent and preserve the interest of the tourist. [5]
- The enemy will make extra efforts to destroy them, and we should do the same to preserve and increase them. [7]
- Men are thought lucky in being light-hearted, but, for my part, may the gods preserve me from such luck! [10]
- I am as lonely as you, I love less happily than you, the House of Seti threatens me with evil times--and yet I can preserve my full confidence in life and my joy in existence. [10]
- I remember in Liverpool, in 1867, first buying the copy, which I still preserve, of the celebrated 'Jumping Frog. [5]
- And if with less money, or money more easily paid, we can preserve the benefits of the Union by this means than we can by the war alone, is it not also economical to do it? [7]
- We'll preserve British justice and the statutes, too. [11]
- In any case it was her duty to her betrothed to preserve from evil, and prevent him from concluding any alliance with that false Siren. [10]
- She replied that it was a debt she would be glad to preserve unsettled for ever. [11]
- Are not clothes intended primarily to preserve dignity and also to afford comfort to their wearer? [5]
- We must submit if the superior might of Rome renders Egypt a province of the republic, but we can preserve to our city and her council the lion's share of their freedom. [10]
- His heir, our ideally placed American, shall take possession of the old house, the home of his earliest memories, and preserve it sacredly, not exactly like the Santa Casa, but, as nearly as may be, just as he remembers it. [6]
- If so, their idea of means to preserve the object of their great affection would seem to be exceedingly thin and airy. [7]
- In that case I must withdraw my influence; because, for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity. [5]
- I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. [7]
- Two poems preserve his memory, one that of Ralph Waldo, in which he addresses his memory,-- "Ah, brother of the brief but blazing star," the other his own "Last Farewell," written in 1832, whilst sailing out of Boston Harbor. [6]
- Zermatt gossip darkly hints that the elder Taugwalder cut the rope, when the accident occurred, in order to preserve himself from being dragged into the abyss; but Mr. Whymper says that the ends of the rope showed no evidence of cutting, but only of breaking. [5]
- This compassion kept him from becoming hard, but it would also preserve him to hourly sacrifice--Prometheus chained to his rock. [11]
- All is mystery here, and in order to preserve that mystery we shall delay for a little the few words which will explain Mr. Weed's successful mission. [9]
- Not far from here was a niche where they used to preserve a piece of the True Cross, but it is gone, now. [5]
- Should Fate demand her life, she would not resist if she were permitted to preserve it only at the cost of murder or base treachery. [10]
- She anxiously clasped her emaciated hands, and from her troubled bosom rose the prayer that the Lord would preserve her darling from the fulfilment of the most ardent desire of his heart. [10]
- T.]--at which time Helena came and built a church upon Calvary to commemorate the death and burial of the Lord and preserve the sacred place in the memories of men; since that time there has always been a church there. [5]
- I think nothing has so profoundly impressed me as the story of the precautions taken to preserve the Venus of Milo from the brutal hands of the mob. [6]
- Surely each man has as strong a motive now to preserve our liberties as each had then to establish them. [7]
- It was a great point too that Kit himself was flattered by the sensation he created, and after several efforts to preserve his gravity, burst into a loud roar, and so stood with his mouth wide open and his eyes nearly shut, laughing violently. [12]
- Allah preserve you from all error! [11]
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