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With a glass you can see the cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nimbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow. [5]
Ought we to withhold from them a protecting hand? [10]
So, perhaps, it was with the old man who watched the sleigh in the distance coming nearer, but that in his nature on which any one could feed was not so easily reached as the fresh young grass under the protecting snow. [11]
The ordinary chalet turns a broad, honest gable end to the road, and its ample roof hovers over the home in a protecting, caressing way, projecting its sheltering eaves far outward. [5]
They all seemed to tell; the swords always bent over the opponents' heads, from the forehead back over the crown, and seemed to touch, all the way; but it was not so--a protecting blade, invisible to me, was always interposed between. [5]
He wished them to look upon the semblance of that protecting spirit who had been faithful to her in her gravest hours of trial and danger. [6]
At the same time she raised the end of the linen drapery with her left hand, spreading it over him like a protecting canopy. [10]
The city permits this house to belong to private parties, instead of gracing and dignifying herself with the honor of possessing and protecting it. [5]
We slept in the sand close to the water's edge, between two protecting boulders, which took care of the stormy night-winds for us. [5]
The top of the protecting levee could be seen here and there, but nearly all of it was submerged. [5]
He thought that the only effective way of preserving and protecting public rights was for each citizen to do his share in preventing or punishing such infringements of them as came under his personal notice. [5]
The train was swinging along at a rapid rate, jarring from side to side; the step was a long one between the cars and there was no protecting grating. [5]
This seemed to satisfy Zeno, and ere Gorgias could urge him to extend a protecting hand over his nephew, he excused himself and, with a message to the wounded man, turned his back upon him. [10]
No man has raised you up more foes than this wretch, who undermines your security instead of protecting it. [10]
The same little protecting organs pave all the great highways of the interior system. [3]
One pair of protecting arms more or less could not matter to the nuns, while the captive Narses might very probably perish before he could be rescued without his interest with the Arab general. [10]
It was Philip's plan, who had engaged the seats, and promised himself an evening with Ruth, walking with her, sitting by her in the hall, and enjoying the feeling of protecting that a man always has of a woman in a public place. [5]
In such rare moments as this her heart melted towards Lise, and she would fling a protecting arm about her. [9]
Neither is the military necessity for protecting the people against paying large salaries fixed by a legislature of their own choosing very apparent. [7]
It did not matter while he himself was not conscious of it; but now that the armour-plate of conceit protecting his honest mind had been torn away on the reefs of foolish deeds, it mattered everything. [11]
M. Fille was like a little cruiser protecting a fort when gunboats swarm near, not daring to attack till their battleship heaves in sight. [11]
At intervals are landings, where arched windows are cut out to the sea, with stone seats and protecting walls. [4]
We will let Klea know this very day of all that has happened to you, and when we have obtained the release of your parents then--but--Help us, protecting Zeus! [10]
Nature has girded it on three sides with protecting walls which keep the wind from entering the valley, and to this, and the delicious, crystal-clear water which flows from the mountains into the pumps, its surprising healthfulness is doubtless due. [10]
In protecting commercial interests our consuls have necessarily had to encounter increased labors and responsibilities growing out of the war. [7]
It became quite intelligible that many Alexandrians should fear to fling a stone lest it might hit one of the good daemons of which the air was full--a spirit of light perhaps, or a protecting spirit. [10]
She does an inordinate deal of protecting, but in no distinctly named and specified case in her history has Number Two been the object of it. [5]
Neither the long incubation of hydrophobia, nor the protecting power of vaccination, would ever have been admitted, if the results of observation in these affections had been rejected as contradictory to the previously ascertained laws of contagion. [3]
Cooper's proudest creations in the way of "situations" suffer noticeably from the absence of the observer's protecting gift. [5]
Through it the hovering, protecting sense becomes instinctive, and prescience takes on uncanny certainty. [11]
Some of the hostiles think that Mrs. Eddy's idea in protecting this property in the interest of her heirs, and in accumulating a great money fortune, is, that she may leave her natural heirs well provided for when she goes. [5]
It was against her alone that Charmian was protecting Barine. [10]
Pierre answered that he "was protecting a woman," and that "to protect a woman who was being insulted was the duty of every man; that..." They interrupted him, for this was not to the point. [2]
But Joan had fortunately escaped them all, some by the protecting luck which attends upon ignorance and innocence, some by happy accident, the others by force of her best and surest helper, the clear vision and lightning intuitions of her extraordinary mind. [5]
At times their eyes wandered to the mountain, which seemed to regard them from a discreet distance--with a kindly and protecting majesty. [9]
This protecting wall extended along both sides of the long, plain edifice, and prevented the water from overflowing the open space which belonged to it. [10]
For herself she expected nothing, felt absolved from every duty except the one of protecting herself and her name from dishonour and humiliation. [10]
All the more exasperating, therefore, was a propinquity creating an intimacy without substance, or without the substance he craved for she had magically become for him a sort of enveloping, protecting atmosphere. [9]
Presiding over it, embracing and protecting it, was a splendid tree. [9]
It would not do, under existing circumstances, to kiss her in the palace, but she drew Leonax's daughter towards her to show Iras that she was ready to extend a protecting hand over the persecuted woman. [10]
She would have disengaged him from her protecting hold, but the doctor made her a peremptory sign, which he followed by a sharp command:-- "Do not move him a hair's breadth," he said. [6]
The greyish golden dawn was creeping in, when he found her with two lions protecting, keeping guard over her, while another crouched snarling in a corner. [11]
It was so dark that I stumbled right on a dim figure almost before I could get out a protecting word. [5]
The foliage of Central Park, already heavy, still preserved the freshness of its new birth, and invited the stroller on the Avenue to its protecting shade. [4]
How head is bowed, the broken spear is sticking in his shoulder, his protecting paw rests upon the lilies of France. [5]
I entrench myself behind that protecting word. [5]
No news had been received of him or of the sisters, and Philippus was the vessel into which the forsaken wife and Pulcheria--who looked up to him as to a kind, faithful, and all-powerful protecting spirit-poured all their sorrows, cares, and fears. [10]
And this had been accomplished by a nation facing the gravest crisis in its history, under the necessity of sustaining and financing many allies and of protecting an Empire. [9]
In the windows at the vacant end of the room stood six or eight, narrow-bladed swords with large protecting guards for the hand, and outside was a man at work sharpening others on a grindstone. [5]
More drops followed, and the great trees seemed to reach out to her a protecting shelter. [9]
On the right and left wings the rain which often falls in the northeastern part of the Nile Delta, near the sea, had washed off the protecting earth, and the wind had borne it away as dust. [10]
We have tried all other means of protecting society, of lessening the criminal class, of reforming the criminal. [4]
It stood on a corner, with a high iron fence protecting the area around it. [9]
Presently Pollux said: "Put your arm through mine; you ought to feel that I am protecting you, and I--I should like to feel at every step that I have found you once more, and am allowed to be near you--so sweet a creature. [10]

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