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1  Grey Beaver defended White Fang.
White Fang By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V THE COVENANT
2  He could do nothing to defend himself.
White Fang By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I THE MAKERS OF FIRE
3  Yet they never replied in kind, never defended themselves against her.
White Fang By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I THE BATTLE OF THE FANGS
4  In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.
White Fang By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V THE COVENANT
5  He forgot that in the covenant entered into between him and the gods they were pledged to care for him and defend him.
White Fang By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER III THE GOD'S DOMAIN
6  Nay, Grey Beaver himself sometimes tossed him a piece of meat, and defended him against the other dogs in the eating of it.
White Fang By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II THE BONDAGE
7  Each time that his teeth struck they sank easily into the yielding flesh, while the animal did not seem able to defend itself.
White Fang By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV THE CLINGING DEATH
8  He could now see the man-animals driving back the dogs with clubs and stones, defending him, saving him from the savage teeth of his kind that somehow was not his kind.
White Fang By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I THE MAKERS OF FIRE
9  White Fang was too helpless to defend himself, and it would have gone hard with him had not Grey Beaver's foot shot out, lifting Lip-lip into the air with its violence so that he smashed down to earth a dozen feet away.
White Fang By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II THE BONDAGE
10  He symbolised it, was its personification: so that when they showed their teeth to him they were defending themselves against the powers of destruction that lurked in the shadows of the forest and in the dark beyond the camp-fire.
White Fang By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I THE ENEMY OF HIS KIND