Now he came storming into the brawl ("May the God of letters preserve me from the deep disgrace of deserving his commendation!"), and Collins lost his admired friend and closest literary ally.
We may think of ourselves as anti-ageist, yet the moment the subject of late motherhood is raised, out come all the stereotypes: you'll be permanently exhausted (show me the parent of a young child who isn't), you're much more patient (if this is patience, God preserve me from impatience).
Such an appalling scene may God preserve me from ever witnessing again".
It reminds one of that old joke: "Oh Lord, preserve me from sin -- but not just yet!" Or in other words, "preserve us from these dreadful jihadist terrorists, but not just yet, for Nusra is too useful a tool to lose".
He wrote to Wentworth: "Blessed be God for it who hath preserved me now from shipwreck, hunger, scurvy and pestilence... ...... His health declining, Baltimore's persistence over the charter finally paid off in 1632.
The plot, like much of the dialogue, is preserved intact from 1991.
We additionally evaluate the historic genetic diversity of walleye from Lake Erie using preserved samples from 1923 1949.
A man I'd never met before gripped my hand with desperate force, as though his physical clamp on me might preserve him from oblivion.
From some periods numerous votive offerings are preserved from a few temples.
A few brief written records are preserved from the 15th century, the first being a baptismal formula from 1462.
