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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
salve .
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Examples
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However, he must be a man of means, as he has given her a charming flat, beautifully decorated with water-colours which the Colonel salved from the French château in the early days -- these army fellows had all the chances.
The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne Stephen King-Hall 1929
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And we traded and salved wherever a dollar promised in the way of pearl and pearl shell, copra, beche-de-mer, hawkbill turtle shell, and stranded wrecks.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Gordon Brown salved the conscience of the left with large-scale transfers to the lowest-paid through the tax credit system while he was at the Treasury – albeit on the quiet.
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Remembering it now both stabbed and salved my broken heart.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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Remembering it now both stabbed and salved my broken heart.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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And we traded and salved wherever a dollar promised in the way of pearl and pearl shell, copra, beche de mer, hawkbill turtle shell, and stranded wrecks.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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For short-term political ends, and what looks like personal pique, NZ is undermining an independent nation's system of checks and balances, and right to free speech, while seemingly threatening to withdraw aid if bruised NZ egos are not salved.
Cleo Paskal: How New Zealand's Petty Politics Undermines Stability and Security in the Pacific Cleo Paskal 2012
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Now that the last incision has been sutured, the last blood stain washed away, the last dry pink pore salved, the last pill powdered, the last tumor appeased;
Permission to Go John Riley 2011
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For short-term political ends, and what looks like personal pique, NZ is undermining an independent nation's system of checks and balances, and right to free speech, while seemingly threatening to withdraw aid if bruised NZ egos are not salved.
Cleo Paskal: How New Zealand's Petty Politics Undermines Stability and Security in the Pacific Cleo Paskal 2012
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And we traded and salved wherever a dollar promised in the way of pearl and pearl shell, copra, beche-de-mer, hawkbill turtle shell, and stranded wrecks.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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