protective colloid

Overnight people shed their fears, their protective camouflage and their restraints.

The ideas are simpler, the numina seem less cold and more protective, the worshippers more sensible of divine aid.

He put it in his garden, arranged a small protective wire cylinder around it, and sprinkled it with water.

But even an age of war and pestilence could be observed without torment from behind the protective shields of the Time Machine.

But I would tolerate, welcome, indeed, plead for a stiff protective duty upon foreign goods.

For this reason they have built up a protective instinct against fire.