Citations:preserved


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * O world of wonders! (I can say no less), That I should be preserved in that distress That I have met with here! O blessed be That hand that from it hath deliver'd me!


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "I see a vacant seat," replied the Ghost, "in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die."