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• But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
• secure of a welcome
• Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
• I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
• to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage
• It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
• to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
• to secure an estate
• With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
• "[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress." (Flight, 1911, p. 766)
• One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.