11.   Portuguese guarded the secret of the cloves on the Spice Islands by publishing false nautical charts designed to cause shipwrecks.

12.   She likes narrative, loves characters who guard their secrets and respects her readers.

13.   The arctic guards that secret as deliberately as it guards the Porcupine caribou, the grizzlies and the rare musk oxen.

14.   The villagers, too, are guarding their secrets.

15.   What secrets do they guard as if matters of national security?

16.   And there are the letters from colleagues at more advanced stages of their careers, guarding their secret tightly.

17.   When they join, they vow to carry out its decisions, observe its discipline, guard its secrets.

18.   Gendarmes are cagey about the number of truffle hounds to have disappeared, as are their owners, who jealously guard secret the location of their truffle groves.