Every surface of the body which may come into contact with foreign substances is covered with a protecting layer of cells closely bound to one another to form continuous sheets.
If I could put forth one protecting prayer that would cover all his years, it would be that through life he continue as wise as the day he was born.
Perhaps in this way we shall succeed in protecting our wives; and children from the danger that menaces them.
If I have confessed to you, it is merely because you are a man without that protecting shield of bristling authority and cold formality.
On the way we passed a single unfilled crater, a deep pit in the flinty quartz sand that spread a protecting blanket over the solid structure of the roof.
So both she and I were awaiting a tragic moment--she to learn that her husband or lover was dead, I for the inevitable tearing off of my protecting disguise.
We accepted the darkened protecting lenses, but I found I did not need mine until the sun itself had appeared above the horizon.
You see that I have no proper means of protecting you.
No eye looked wistfully on him to turn away disappointed; his smiles cheered the disconsolate, and his protecting arms warded off, when possible, the approach of new sorrows.
In response to Shiragi's overtures, the King of Koma sent a body of troops to assist in protecting that principality against any retaliatory essay on the part of the Japanese in Mimana.
They simply built a stone wall to block the foe's advance, and did not even adopt the precaution ofprotecting their flanks.
For, on the 6th of February, Japan had broken off the negotiations in St. Petersburg, and had given official information of her intention to take measures for protecting her menaced interests.
The armada sailed under divine guidance, a gentle spirit protecting the Empress, and a warlike spirit leading the van of her forces.
Not even a near, kindprotecting god--like the doctor?
A great wave of protecting love went out to meet that vision.
He could not but picture the little woman of the evening before hanging on to her husband, intent on protecting her dress and shrieking at every close flash of lightning or loud clap of thunder.
The climate is warm and dry, but from the protectingranges not rising precipitously as at Menton, the shelter from the northerly winds is less complete.
None of the protecting mountains of any of the stations are sufficiently high, precipitous, and united to ward off the cold winds when the higher mountains behind are covered with snow.
Previous to that it could serve man only for warming himself, or for protecting himself at night against wild beasts.
Now salt is as useful as either of these, protecting in a way the food as it comes into the body, and making it palatable and agreeable to the appetite.
It's a stupid game for her to keep them, I will say;" and she put a protecting arm across her sister's shoulder.
Don't cry," and Luretta put a protecting arm about the frightened Melvina.
During the last hundred years Russia has several times made war on Turkey, always on the pretext of protecting Christians, and it is this which is fast breaking up the Turkish empire.
Be these things as they may, however, and be her ulterior motives what they may, the solicitude of the empress-regent has been constantly directed to protecting the weak point in her dynastic defences.
Cochin China; and Gambetta was so enthusiastic on the subject that, while persecuting the Catholics in France, he was ready to expend the forces of the Republic in protecting them in distant countries.
I have already explained the importance of protecting the outside fibres of the wood.
Dope, to=--To paint a fabric with a special fluid for the purpose of tightening and protecting it.
But since the peace, France, Germany, America, and all the other countries of the world, had proceeded upon the principle of encouraging and protecting native manufacturers.
And, then, what about the necessity for protecting the machinery at all?
And it was a kindly Providence which placed the child's hand in the aged Jew's protecting one that night.
The Echoes," a homey little hotel nestling at the base of the green hill, with its square white tower, peeped picturesquely from the protecting sweep of graceful willows and silvery poplars.
His excellency forgot the duty of protecting American citizens from wrong, and thought only of protecting a foreign and wholly un-American party in committing it.
Finally: The inimical power in whose hands the Holy Father now finds himself is, either from weakness or malice, incapable of protecting his august person from any kind of insult.
Well, do Catholics pretend that the Pope is infallible by nature, or otherwise than through the supernatural assistance of the Holy Ghost protecting him from error in teaching the faith taught by the prophets and apostles?
Catholics must rely entirely on themselves, and not delegate the office of protecting them to any party or ruling power.
We are not surprised that Prussia and Austria have taken the alarm--consulted together as to the means of protecting themselves and society against their machinations.
Her protecting affection for her sister was the one virtue amidst many faults--the one feeling from which she could draw unalloyed pleasure.
A panther at home, protecting her young, was not a foe with whom he could take risks.
As the Old Road grew more and more neglected the duty of protecting it was forgotten, and the exploitation of the pits at last destroyed it at these points.
Alive as I am to the importance of protecting ourselves at all points, I might not have realized this particular danger had you not called it to my attention.
Through the spirit of the love of God they gained a new life, and they saw Christ living, helping and protecting them.
Finally, in consequence of His exile the whole of Europe and most of Asia came under the protecting shadow of the God of Israel.
We find examples of both kinds alike in the legislation for restricting the time of working and in legislation for protecting intervals of rest.
But even in measures of that kind it does not interfere for the purpose of protecting the persons of the wage earners in their relations of dependence on the employer.
