Preservers

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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.” ❋ Enowning (2009)

Contiguous to Mr. Allworthy’s estate was the manor of one of those gentlemen who are called preservers of the game. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Contiguous to Mr. Allworthy's estate was the manor of one of those gentlemen who are called preservers of the game. ❋ Various (1887)

Contiguous to Mr Allworthy's estate was the manor of one of those gentlemen who are called preservers of the game. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Editor (1889)

There was in the departments, as there was in Paris, a lawful resistance, the resistance prescribed to the citizens by Article 110 of the Constitution, and superior to the Constitution by natural right; there was the legitimate defence -- this time the word is properly applied -- against the "preservers;" the armed struggle of right and law against the infamous insurrection of the ruling powers. ❋ Victor Hugo (1843)

Contiguous to Mr. Allworthy’s estate was the manor of one of those gentlemen who are called preservers of the game. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Some wore their life preservers, their shoeless feet were covered with aluminum foil. ❋ Unknown (2012)

If Dostoevsky believed you can judge the degree of civilization in a society by entering its prisons, what can be made of Lebanon, the self-trumpeting beacon of Arab human rights preservers? ❋ Patrick Galey (2011)

And, like on the Titanic, only the well-to-do have life preservers and access to the life boats. ❋ Dr. Jim Taylor (2010)

The boat was filled with passengers desperate to evacuate the island -- some panicked and crying, some bleeding, some with no shoes -- and now they scrambled for life preservers, thinking the boat was on fire. ❋ Jessica DuLong (2011)

His swimmers were still swimming though they probably wore life preservers, and he went for it. ❋ Charlie Carillo (2011)