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Were they, surviving Adrian and myself, to find themselves protectorless in the world?

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

She had already experienced the evils of being protectorless and indigent, and my seasonable interference snatched her from impending and less supportable ills.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden