Those who had forced open the coffins of the Orthodox saints during the Bolshevik Revolution, she wrote, "now jealously preserved a relic of their own."

The town, settled by refugees from the American Revolution in 1792 and briefly capital of Upper Canada, jealously preserves an image of a "British" way of life revisited by North American nostalgia.

In France, where for centuries the nobility jealously preserved the right to hunt, game still exudes a mysterious attraction.

Over the life of the mine, Henry Ayers jealously preserved shareholder profits by ruthlessly controlling wages and expenses.

Because of this, all ranks of 2/4 RAR were aware of the history of both 2 RAR and 4 RAR and jealously preserved these traditions, whilst working hard to establish a distinctive image for their battalion.

Though history may have betrayed the promise of West Cork's riches, it jealously preserved the land for the eye and the camera.

Albania, whose hard-line Communist Government is known for jealously preserving the country's isolation, will soon allow citizens to accept telephone calls from the United States.

When I die," he explained, "I am consigning to my son my artistic patrimony, and I know he will jealously preserve it.