in reserve

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in reserve

available for use if needed. I know how much money I will earn, how much I can spend, and what I need to keep in reserve.

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Helped by the kindness of my friend, I have arranged to have a cabin kept in reserve, on payment of a small deposit. The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie View in context Having thus provided myself with these maxims, and having placed them in reserve along with the truths of faith, which have ever occupied the first place in my belief, I came to the conclusion that I might with freedom set about ridding myself of what remained of my opinions. Reason For Discourse by Descartes, Rene View in context For the bourgeois of Paris were aware that it is not sufficient to pray in every conjuncture, and to plead for the franchises of the city, and they had always in reserve, in the garret of the town hall, a few good rusty arquebuses. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context More results

References in classic literature

Helped by the kindness of my friend, I have arranged to have a cabin kept in reserve, on payment of a small deposit.

The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie View in context

Having thus provided myself with these maxims, and having placed them in reserve along with the truths of faith, which have ever occupied the first place in my belief, I came to the conclusion that I might with freedom set about ridding myself of what remained of my opinions.

Reason For Discourse by Descartes, Rene View in context

For the bourgeois of Paris were aware that it is not sufficient to pray in every conjuncture, and to plead for the franchises of the city, and they had always in reserve, in the garret of the town hall, a few good rusty arquebuses.

Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context

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