Word: preserveres
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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His noble self-abandon, his untutored emotion, overcame me. I could only gasp, "Don't squeeze my hand too hard, my gallant preserver. I am a simple, guileless maiden, and I cannot tell; but - papa wouldn't mind, I guess." ...
IF there is one thing I hate more than another, - I say thing, as the word seems most appropriate, - it is a blue-coat, a peeler, a cop. I know not by what name that noble enforcer of the laws, that preserver of the country's peace, is best known...