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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The general characteristics of all theocratic architecture are immutability, horror of progress, the preservation of traditional lines, the consecration of the primitive types, the constant bending of all the forms of men and of nature to the incomprehensible caprices of the symbol.†
Chpt 1.5.2

preservation = the act of protecting something or keeping it as it is

Do you know that I am called Florian Barbedienne, actual lieutenant to monsieur the provost, and, moreover, commissioner, inquisitor, controller, and examiner, with equal power in provostship, bailiwick, preservation, and inferior court of judicature?†
Chpt 1.6.1 *

The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory.†
Chpt 1.1.1

The silence which he preserved allowed the prologue to proceed without hindrance, and no perceptible disorder would have ensued, if ill-luck had not willed that the scholar Joannes should catch sight, from the heights of his pillar, of the mendicant and his grimaces.†
Chpt 1.1.2

It was this justly acquired popularity, no doubt, which preserved him on his entrance from any bad reception at the hands of the mob, which had been so displeased but a moment before, and very little disposed to respect a cardinal on the very day when it was to elect a pope.†
Chpt 1.1.3

The Grève had then that sinister aspect which it preserves to-day from the execrable ideas which it awakens, and from the sombre town hall of Dominique Bocador, which has replaced the Pillared House.†
Chpt 1.2.2

But, beautiful as it has been preserved in growing old, it is difficult not to sigh, not to wax indignant, before the numberless degradations and mutilations which time and men have both caused the venerable monument to suffer, without respect for Charlemagne, who laid its first stone, or for Philip Augustus, who laid the last.†
Chpt 1.3.1

That was, in fact,—when, after having long groped one's way up the dark spiral which perpendicularly pierces the thick wall of the belfries, one emerged, at last abruptly, upon one of the lofty platforms inundated with light and air,—that was, in fact, a fine picture which spread out, on all sides at once, before the eye; a spectacle ~sui generis~, of which those of our readers who have had the good fortune to see a Gothic city entire, complete, homogeneous,—a few of which still remain, Nuremberg in Bavaria and Vittoria in Spain,—can readily form an idea; or even smaller specimens, provided that they are well preserved,—Vitré in Brittany, Nordhausen in Prussia.†
Chpt 1.3.2

In this manner the archdeacon was the sole human being with whom Quasimodo had preserved communication.†
Chpt 1.4.4

Now it was a ~bejaune~ or yellow beak (as they called the new arrivals at the university), whom he had been mauling by way of welcome; a precious tradition which has been carefully preserved to our own day.†
Chpt 1.4.5

Quasimodo alone preserved his seriousness, for the good reason that he understood nothing of what was going on around him.†
Chpt 1.6.1

The poor fellow, supposing that the provost was asking his name, broke the silence which he habitually preserved, and replied, in a harsh and guttural voice, "Quasimodo."†
Chpt 1.6.1

All resistance had been rendered impossible to him by what was then called, in the style of the criminal chancellery, "the vehemence and firmness of the bonds" which means that the thongs and chains probably cut into his flesh; moreover, it is a tradition of jail and wardens, which has not been lost, and which the handcuffs still preciously preserve among us, a civilized, gentle, humane people (the galleys and the guillotine in parentheses).†
Chpt 1.6.4

All at once he moved again in his chains with redoubled despair, which made the whole framework that bore him tremble, and, breaking the silence which he had obstinately preserved hitherto, he cried in a hoarse and furious voice, which resembled a bark rather than a human cry, and which was drowned in the noise of the hoots—"Drink!"†
Chpt 1.6.4

I assuredly esteem as a rarity this nunlike prudery which is preserved untamed amid those Bohemian girls who are so easily brought into subjection.†
Chpt 2.7.2

The other was an earthenware pot, coarse and common, but which had preserved all its water, and its flowers remained fresh and crimson.†
Chpt 2.9.4

tell me who preserved for you that life which you render so charming to yourself?†
Chpt 2.10.1

Although he expected no resistance, he wished, like a prudent general, to preserve an order which would permit him to face, at need, a sudden attack of the watch or the police.†
Chpt 2.10.4

In token of which I here plant my banner, and may God preserve you, bishop of Paris," Quasimodo could not, unfortunately, hear these words uttered with a sort of sombre and savage majesty.†
Chpt 2.10.4

The beam did not stir, the edifice preserved its calm and deserted air; but something chilled the outcasts.†
Chpt 2.10.4

The priest remained motionless, his finger still raised toward the gibbet, preserving his attitude like a statue.†
Chpt 2.11.1

It was not because his only eye had not preserved its long range, but there was a group of soldiers which prevented his seeing everything.†
Chpt 2.11.2

Definitions:

(1) (preserve as in: preserve the records)
to protect something or to keep it as it is
(2) (preserve as in: preserve the peaches)
to prepare food in a way that keeps it from spoiling
(3) (preserve as in: a wildlife preserve)
protected wildlife area
(4) (preserve as in: no longer a male preserve)
something exclusive to (someone or some group) -- such as an activity or place
(5) (preserves as in: mom made preserves)
chunks of fruit cooked with sugar (like jam) and sealed (usually in a mason jar) so it will not spoil
(6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)