This preservative she had now obtained; and atthe age of twenty-seven, without having ever been handsome, she felt allthe good luck of it.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Elizabeth, particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the latterthe preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy,was hurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so illapplied.
There is not a messenger or process-serverattached to it, who wears a coat that was made for him; not a tolerablyfresh, or wholesome-looking man in the whole establishment, excepta little white-headed apple-faced tipstaff, and even he, like anill-conditioned cherry preserved in brandy, seems to have artificiallydried and withered up into a state of preservation to which he can layno natural claim.