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Example sentences for "protect them"

  • The Yankee deserters, having no friends to protect them, were treated with great harshness.

  • This was produced, but the kotwal besought the sahibs to move on without delay, telling them that their lives were in imminent danger, as there was a rebel regiment in the town, and he was quite unable to protect them.

  • Strong powers protect them openly, while they demean themselves orderly: weak powers get them to go away when not able to protect them.

  • She tells her people she will protect them in whatever they have laid, or may lay, their hands upon.

  • Had you as many citizens there as she, you would be compelled to protect them; and if you have not, why is it but because she keeps them off, and you refuse to offer them the inducements which she holds out?

  • If preorganization was against them then, why not do this now that the United States army is present to protect them?

  • He mentioned a letter which had been written by Lord Dorchester to the Indians, informing them "that Prince Edward had arrived with a number of chosen warriors to protect them," meaning against the United States.

  • She was obliged to send troops to protect them, but their valuable trade furnished her with means of paying those troops.

  • The whites were virtually in a state of siege, deserted and maligned by a veteran officer, whose duty it was to protect them; not knowing where to find succor, or even food, completely discouraged and dismayed.

  • The authorities here have not only used every exertion to protect them, but their exertions have been completely successful.

  • The Snake Indians had attacked and massacred parties of emigrants recently, and Major Rains was under orders to send a force on the emigrant road to protect them.

  • While neither reason nor experience are sufficiently matured to protect them.

  • They are a shrewd and calculating as well as an enterprising people; they understand their interests and will protect them.

  • This organization was gotten up for the benefit of the railroad men--for their own protection--for to protect them in anything that might be brought up.

  • We immediately formed the men to protect them, but afterwards they did not throw water on that fire at all.

  • During the fire, were you ever called on by the chief of the fire department, or by anybody connected with the fire department, to protect them in their attempts to put out the fire?

  • The Jesuits, also, strained every nerve, and put forth marvellous talent and art, to secure a pope who would protect them.

  • They even had the madness to invoke the aid of the Empress Catharine to protect them in their ancient privileges.

  • The Jesuits, in their distress, had only one friend sufficiently powerful to protect them, and he was the king.

  • If they started in the daytime, it would be necessary to have detachments of troops planted at different spots on their road to protect them.

  • In pursuing these savages to an imaginary line in the woods it would have been the height of folly to have suffered that line to protect them.

  • As their object was distinctly seen, and the duty imposed on the Executive by an existing law was profoundly felt, that mask was not permitted to protect them.

  • And if they were so disposed would it be the duty of this Government to protect them in the attempt?

  • If you think slavery is sinful, all you have to do is to set your slaves at liberty, do all you can to protect them, and in humble faith and fervent prayer, commend them to your common Father.

  • Trivial as is this case, it gives us a clear insight into the independence and self-assertion of the Moorish communities and the readiness of the courts to protect them in their rights.

  • Many of them had fled to the lands of the neighboring nobles, in the expectation that feudal jurisdictions would protect them, even against a spiritual court such as that of the Inquisition.

  • Yet when prelates and priests intervene to crush their malice, they laugh at excommunication and nobles are found who protect them.

  • The batteries from which the rebels fired were mostly erected after the steamer ran ashore, and seemed to consist principally of field pieces and guns hastily drawn to the spot, with no earthworks to protect them.

  • The transportation of supplies is limited by the ability of the Government to provide trains, and by the ability of the army to protect them; for large trains create large drafts on the troops for teamsters, pioneers, guards, etc.

  • These Whitworths they place concealed in hillsides, or in forests back of the places where they build the regular fort to protect them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been doing; certain words; dark bluish; deep brown; fire from; last will; male and; moment like; protect them; protect themselves; protected from; protection against; protection from; protective coloration; protective duties; protective mimicry; protective resemblance; protective tariff; protectively coloured; protectorate over; quarter miles; rank and; two distinct; various ways; whatever might; wife will