What is "safekeeping"

Usage examples of "safekeeping".

And so it came about that God wore a wide-awake hat and fought skirmishes with an aboriginal Satan out at the antipodes of the firmament, in the name and for the safekeeping of any Victoria.

He was going home, though he had been no further from it than the Belgic citadel of Samarobriva, where, like many other hostages, he had been detained until Caesar decided where to send him for safekeeping.

I hid the pearl in Elysian for safekeeping in case I die in the process of bringing the demon out and killing it.

She was itching to spend some of her hard-won gold, but if she went right to The Jugged Hare, Steifann would insist that she put most of it aside for safekeeping.

Tom Zwingler had to change his clothes for something lighter and left his ruby tiepin and cufflinks with Billy for safekeeping.

I would be more than happy to disabuse them of any notions that their faith afforded them safekeeping in any way.

If necessary, Lily would lend Becky her small and veteran tube of the infinitely more grasping and tenacious substance called Miracle Glue, which she stored for safekeeping wrapped in a cotton rag and placed in an old shortbread tin stashed at the back of the spare mitten shelf of the out-of-season coat closet, a precaution taken because, from time to time, one heard of accidental and undesired adhesions involving heedless mis applications of the clearly and sternly labeled stuff.

Would Cuiva realize that Caleb should be given the disks she had entrusted to her for safekeeping?

Perhaps it was the fact that she had stuck her wand behind her left ear for safekeeping, or that she had chosen to wear a necklace of Butterbeer corks, or that she was reading a magazine upside-down.

But she took it along with her, back to her bunk, where she stuck both the vidcam and the strange piece of cermet into her personal bag for safekeeping, until they got back to Moonbase.

Upon his death, Alaron gave the sword to a shapechanger for safekeeping, to keep it from the hands of the defilers, whose touch would cause the magic blade to break and shatter its enchantment.

Of course we brought them in here for safekeeping from the despoiling Achaians.

Once, while I was assisting at the scene of a three-car collision over in Patchin, I stashed the drunk driver who'd caused it all in the back of my unit for safekeeping while I set out some road flares.

And that a bartender put the money away for safekeeping says a lot about how fishermen choose their bars.

He resolved to be at her final burial, to light joss sticks before her gravestone, and to say the prayers of reverence for the safekeeping of her spirit.