In truth, painful to endure as it undoubtedly was, this hot wind and mirage had proved to be theirpreserver from capture, and probably death.
Life-Preservers All canoes should have a good cork life-preserver in them when the owner ventures away from land.
Celandine the greater is hot and dry (they say in the third degree) any way used; either the juice or made into an oil or ointment, it is a great preserverof the sight, and an excellent help for the eyes.
They let out lots of line, but still the life-preserver was towed away.
Again she came plowing along before us, the same group on her bow; again the life-preserver was thrown, and this time the captain seized it.
It was perhaps ten minutes from the moment of his falling into the sea when the white boat drew up alongside and pulled both him and the life-preserver out of the water.
Already the man on watch at the taffrail had cut away the lashings of a patent life-preserver and sent it into the sea, where it floated with signals erect, far astern.
By its light he dragged a life-preserver from the rack overhead and slipped the tapes about his shoulders, reflecting that Alaskan waters are disagreeably cold.
He slipped out of his life-preserver and adjusted it over her shoulders, first drawing her arms through the sleeves of her dressing-gown and knotting the cord snugly around her waist.
Each man had a similar life-preserver in a convenient place, and he was to keep this always ready to put on when we reached particularly dangerous rapids.
The Major stood on the middle deck, his life-preserver in place, and holding by his left hand to the arm of the well secured chair to prevent being thrown off by the lurching of the boat, peered into the approaching maelstrom.
The Major had on his life-preserver and so had Jones, but Jack and I put ours behind our seats, where we could catch them up quickly, for they were so large we thought they impeded the handling of the oars.
The Major as usual had put on his life-preserver and I think Jones had on his, but Jack and I, as was our custom, placed ours inflated immediately behind our seats, not wishing to be hampered by them.
Each man had his life-preserver where he could get it quickly, and the Major put his on, for with only one arm he could not do this readily in case of necessity.
Suddenly, a man stood before her with a cork life-preserver in his hands, and buckled it around her securely, under the arms.
In discharging its duty as the preserver of justice, the court finds two issues which need to be settled rightly.
All of this is in harmony with the old conception of the state as the protector of property and the preserver of freedom.
He lifted the unconscious man's mouth out of water and caught the life preserver that Forrester threw him.
You must wear your life preserver all the time that we are on the water.
Forrester staggered ashore, then with a life preserver on the end of a rope, he started along the river's edge.
To attain these great ends, the librarian who is qualified for his responsible position, must be both a preserver and a restorer of books.
Alex threw out a life preserver and shouted back: “Float down, then, and kick in as you go along!
My preserver has been here several times to make inquiries after my health," answered Pownal.
Again Betty threw herself on her knees, begging him to calm himself, as I was her preserver not her betrayer.
In less than ten minutes we were opposite to the little stream leading to the convent, but the secret of it was too dear to be hazarded, so as soon as we reached the point I paid my preserver and sent him back.
Seeing I must have sorrow (for I have sinned, O Preserver of men!
We have seen that six hundred years after Adam appears Noah, another self-triplicated Saviour or preserver of man, with his ark or seed vessel, beneath which is veiled the female element.
The Preserverof the Persians, who is seated on a rainbow in front of their rock temples, is Mithras, who is identical with Noah.
While he hated Jehovah, he praised the God of Nature, the creator and preserver of all.
Even before he knew him as God in Christ, the Creator and Preserver were enthroned in his bosom; and every event of the day, every object that met his view, gave rise to some touchingly simple question or remark concerning God.
But no, he had only done his duty; he had proved to his preserver the sincerity of his friendship and the depth of his gratitude.
Their hunger and thirst again manifested themselves, though little Rosa and her preserver no longer suffered from the last.
The child was perhaps only rescued from the reptile to be swallowed with her preserver by a monster far more; voracious, the ingulfing Gapo.
The adder in the fable stung its preserver to death.
And the preserver of your life, Everard--where is he?
And somehow, though he had not yet seen the lad's face, he knew the hissing serpent and the preserver of his life were one and the same.
The nurse and preserver of the arts and sciences, of religion and civilization, was not the work of one brain solely, neither did the gift bring peace at once, but rather strife and opposition.
Ham, the accursed, the third son of Noah, was the inventor or the preserver of magic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preserver" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deliverer; guardian; keeper; ranger; rescuer; saver; taxidermist
