preserving

The family also believed that inbreeding was central to both preserving the family fortune and ensuring “purity of blood.”

And, collecting couture, at least I see and know what I am preserving.

“The making of couture clothes is changing so drastically that I feel like I am preserving its history,” she says.

And I am truly preserving something unique because those garments are like a dying breed.

All of these rules are aimed at preserving the honor of the women and, by extension, their families.

Birds were very numerous but the operation of skinning and preserving them would have taken up more time than could be afforded.

For all that, an occasional mutter came unheeded to his ears, the closed curtains preserving articulate sounds like room walls.

She had certain scientific formulas for preserving her beauty.

The latter were certainly reduced to tears; nor am I sure that Mr. Bowman succeeded in preserving a manly composure.

He came back to find a blooming maiden preserving the fresh, joyous grace which had captivated him in the child—and loved!