"Protect" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the end of a short honeymoon to find that she had only a limber stick or a broken reed to lean upon, instead of a self-reliant, independent, self-sustaining man, able to provide for her the comforts of a home and to protect her from the rudeness and suffering of privation ...
— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg
... safety, fellow," said young Harkaway, turning and facing their old enemy, "since you have so many backers to protect you." ...
— Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece • Bracebridge Hemyng
... momentary conflict, and then, with an inward prayer that Heaven would protect her, she passed on down the narrow hall and knocked softly at No. ——, while Sarah stood wringing her hands in genuine distress, and feeling as if her young mistress had gone ...
— Miss McDonald • Mary J. Holmes
... to you. If you want to search for these rubies, and you would be a fool not to, she must accompany you—that is all. I know that you will look after her, and if the worst comes to the worst, she has a medicine to protect herself with, the same that she so nearly used in the slave camp. Now, what do ...
— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard
... at me for an instant, and then turned to centre his attention upon the figure of our host, and I understood in some intuitive fashion that he was there to watch over the strangest contest man ever saw—to watch over and, if necessary, to protect. ...
— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood
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