Suppose you were to ask me, what is that of which the presence or absence improves or preserves the order of the body?
This spotless robe the same appears, When ruined nature sinks in years: No age can change its constant hue; Thy Blood preserves it ever new.
He preserves the concepts of Morality even though he has no occasion to obey its dictates.
And as he can only live in society if he submits to its rules of good and bad, Morality, which urges him to this submission, aids and even preserves his life.
Now they greet him as their fellow-labourer, and with him praise the Lord who gathers and preserves his Church.
A modest Man preserves his Character, as a frugal Man does his Fortune; if either of them live to the Height of either, one will find Losses, the other Errors, which he has not Stock by him to make up.
Even Hegel said that wars invigorate humanity just as the stormpreserves the sea from putrescence.
The animal society dominated by a few instincts directed for the most part toward external objects preserves a state of peace within the species.
The main argument against the existence of a Proto-Mark is that neither Papias nor any known Father of the Church preserves the least recollection of it.
The historical parts of it are full of beauty, but he uses them mainly as a framework for the discourses of Jesus, which he preserves with loving fidelity.
While the sea water preserves this temperature, it must tend much to moderate the severity of cold, one would naturally expect in this latitude, near so many snow-covered mountains.
It is of the red kind, and still preserves a strong scent.
The old manpreserves his equanimity, says he has a fortune to tell her.
But, notwithstanding Tom affects the trim of the craft, the skilled eye can easily detect the deception; for the craftsman, even under a press of head sail, preserves a becoming rig.
The natural seediness of the parson excites suspicion, nevertheless he is scrupulous of his white cravat, and preserves withal a strictly clerical aspect.
It preserves in the same manner as the salts, by imbibing a portion of the water of composition; it bleaches, discolours, and hardens the organs.
That it is preferable to employ the acetate of alumine, because it preserves better; as the skin experiences no alteration, and as the central organs remain natural, excepting the colour of the muscles which become bleached.
The carmined lakes, thus suspended in fat varnish, produce absolutely the effect of arterial blood; this colour preserves very well, and with such like injections it is unnecessary to colour the surface of the arteries.
Arsenious acid preserves bodies very well, but a single subject would require a killogram!
He preserves his little indifferent air, with no expression in his eyes, until suddenly there comes a little nervous twitch at the corner of his mouth.
What is there in the air of Paris which preserves the beauty of a woman's face beyond the natural term, like a pastel under its glass?
But a curious legend, which has been much misunderstood, still preserves traces of the old cosmology of the great sanctuary of Northern Babylonia.
This veneration for the past, which preserves without repairing or modifying or even adapting to the surroundings of the present, is a characteristic which is deeply engrained in the mind of the Egyptian.
Wherever a pair of ravens do exist the landowner generally preserves them now, as interesting representatives of old times.
Being so near the woods and preservesit was part of the understanding that he should not keep a gun--he took a stout staff, and went out to his hayricks, and there stayed till daylight.
Eight days were spent in Westernport, the limit of Bass's discoveries in January 1798; and the name French Island preserves the memory of their researches there.
Cape Bernier, on the east coast of Tasmania--opposite the southern end of Maria Island--preserves his name.
In the first, he elegantly shows the universal, indispensable necessity of prayer, which alone unites the heart to God, andpreserves it from the approach of sin.
Apollo, the saviour of men, who preserves us from pestilence and famine, who enlightens, preserves, and governs the universe.
Myrrh was anciently made use of in embalming dead bodies: a fit emblem of mortification, because this virtue preserves the soul from the corruption of sin.
Its soil is a gravel, which, associated with its declivity, preserves it always so dry that immediately after the most violent rain a fine lady may walk without wetting her silken shoes.
It preserves remains of ramparts, a stronghold of the 16th century flanked by cylindrical towers, and a sculptured gateway of the 15th century.
The ancient episcopal palace, now used as prefecture, stands behind the cathedral; it preserves a Romanesque gallery of the 12th century.
A windowless closet as far as possible from the furnace, and best built under some small extension, thus giving it three cool stone walls, is the place where preserves and jellies keep best.
If there is no closet of this kind, a cupboard, standing firmly on the floor, can easily be built, for preserves must have darkness as well as coolness; otherwise they are apt to turn dark and to ferment.
We have a glimpse now and then of the lonely lad at his sport in the forest about Falaise and Valognes, where he set apart preserves for hunting.
There is nothing more striking than the traditional slander and prejudice which history preserves from age to age.
Nevertheless, of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves its purity.
One man still preserves the horns of the last deer that was killed in this vicinity, and another has told me the particulars of the hunt in which his uncle was engaged.
Josyan, in Sir Bevis of Hamptoun, preserves her chastity by the use of a rune.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preserves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
