preservative
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For treating leather boots, our staff at Wirecutter likes Obenauf’s Heavy Duty Leather Preservative.
From Slate • Nov. 9, 2018
Patrick Smith's Preservative against Quakerism and The Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man, missionaries carried with them local helps such as Bishop Wilson's Essay Towards the Instruction of the Indians.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Realize that in Gibson's "Preservative" there are not less than ten volumes of such writing!
From The Profits of Religion by Sinclair, Upton
From hence he did infer, that a regular Life is an excellent Preservative against all natural Ills; and that Intemperance produces quite contrary Effects.
From Medicina Flagellata Or, The Doctor Scarify'd by Anonymous
Wharton's Treatise of the Celibacy of the Clergy, in Gibson's Preservative against Popery, fol.
Vocabulary lists containing preservative
Novel Study: Fahrenheit 451, Part I
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The Million Dollar Shot
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"Allegedly" by Tiffany D. Jackson, Chapters 2–4
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