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  • noun Plural form of preserver.

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Examples

  • What happened in the next few minutes I do not recollect, though I have a clear remembrance of pulling down life-preservers from the overhead racks, while the red-faced man fastened them about the bodies of an hysterical group of women.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • What happened in the next few minutes I do not recollect, though I have a clear remembrance of pulling down life-preservers from the overhead racks, while the red-faced man fastened them about the bodies of an hysterical group of women.

    Chapter 1 1904

  • Heidegger places his primary focus on the persona of the preservers and positions them in relationship to both truth and history: “[I]n the work [of art], truth is thrown towards the coming preservers, that is, toward an historical group of men.”

    Archive 2009-03-01 enowning 2009

  • Heidegger places his primary focus on the persona of the preservers and positions them in relationship to both truth and history: “[I]n the work [of art], truth is thrown towards the coming preservers, that is, toward an historical group of men.”

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  • Contiguous to Mr. Allworthy’s estate was the manor of one of those gentlemen who are called preservers of the game.

    II. The Heroe of This Great History Appears with Very Bad Omens. Book III 1917

  • Contiguous to Mr. Allworthy's estate was the manor of one of those gentlemen who are called preservers of the game.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887

  • Contiguous to Mr Allworthy's estate was the manor of one of those gentlemen who are called preservers of the game.

    History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730

  • A small group of wizards known as 'preservers' worked instead to restore the world to its former glory, but were often mistaken for defilers and shunned or attacked.

    The Worlds of D&D: Dark Sun Adam Whitehead 2009

  • A small group of wizards known as 'preservers' worked instead to restore the world to its former glory, but were often mistaken for defilers and shunned or attacked.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Plainly then it will not support itself, unless it shall collect the poor as a kind of preservers, to be within itself.

    NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

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