"Safeguard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... opening a trench or turning the ground up, so as to cut off the communication with the dry grass, leaves, and branches, which are the fuel for supplying the fires on the Plains. The little clearing on one side the house they thought would be its safeguard, but the fire was advancing on ...
— Canadian Crusoes - A Tale of The Rice Lake Plains • Catharine Parr Traill
... matter of fact, I had some talent for organization, and in any gathering of men, I somehow never lacked a following. I was young enough to be an honest partisan, enthusiastic enough to be useful, strong enough to be respected, ignorant enough to believe my party my country's safeguard, and I was prominent in my county before I was old enough to vote. At twenty-one I conducted a convention fight which made a member of Congress. It was quite natural, therefore, that I should be delegate to this convention, and that I had looked ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick
... "This safeguard is one given by the American commander-in-chief to the Dona Isolina de Vargas. Perhaps you have seen it before? And here is a letter from Don Ramon de Vargas to the commissary-general of the American army, enclosed within another from that functionary to ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid
... through the mating and nesting season, the cruelty of the act is still more dastardly. The attachment of the parent birds for their young is very beautiful to witness, yet this devotion, which should be their safeguard, is seized upon for their destruction, for so great is the instinct of protecting love they refuse to leave their young when danger is near, and are absolutely ...
— Dickey Downy - The Autobiography of a Bird • Virginia Sharpe Patterson
... girl has breeding to some extent, he might think it her due that she should pass under the safeguard of his name, ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
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