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preserve
areas where game is reared for private hunting or fishing

preserve [prə′zərv]
(ecology)
An area that is maintained for game or fish, especially for sport, and may have limited access requiring a permit for entry.


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A strong sense of the value and blessings of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government to preserve and perpetuate it.
Massacres are to be sternly forbidden as heretofore; but any citizen or subject of either country disobeying the injunction is to detach the scalps of all persons massacred and deposit them with a local officer designated to receive and preserve them and sworn to keep and render a true account thereof.
So too the poet, in representing men who are irascible or indolent, or have other defects of character, should preserve the type and yet ennoble it.
 
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