But ROLLO, as he clos'd his ears before, Now tired, averts his eyes to see no more.
From earth and these the muse averts From these the courtly muse averts her her view, eye.
The latter meets his glance, scowls, and hurriedlyaverts his eyes.
He seems about to kiss her--then averts his face with a shrinking movement, pretending he hasn't seen.
Wherefore it is not possible that a man should fight against Achilles, because one of the gods is ever beside him, who averts destruction.
For a man, who with intent concentration averts his attention from all outward operations, has intuition of the truth, and after that intuition he is not entangled again in the meshes of works.
Honour to the elephant-headed god whoaverts all hindrances, who is the cause of every success, who ferries us over the sea of difficulties.
Melchisedech, a Jew, by a story of three rings averts a danger with which he was menaced by Saladin.
Melchisedech, a Jew, by a story of three rings averts a great danger with which he was menaced by Saladin.
The man flushes and averts his face, as he passes a group of visitors clustered about an overseer.
With a look of horror he quickly averts his face, as I pull the trigger.
And once more she gives him that soft eager look, and once more averts it as he turns to her.
Hence is he preeminently, on the one hand, the kindly god who averts disease, and, on the other, of destruction in every form.
In other hymns S[=u]rya averts carelessness at the sacrifice, guards the worshipper, and slays demons.
Mrs. Kachin averts her head, and passes her without a word.
After a moment she slowly averts her face, as if seeking to hide the pallor that is rendering even her lips white.
Then suddenly recollection forces itself upon him, he drops his extended arm, and coldly averts his eyes from hers.
He who averts his eyes from charity commits a sin equal to idolatry.
She sees the expression on his face and averts her head in order not to meet his eye.
She hangs her head and averts her eyes in a mute acknowledgment of guilt.
Wisdom cannot be imparted to children by parents under an anaesthesia that averts pain and suffering.
Comradeship shuts out the sense of possession, prevents the invasion of personality, averts alike parental tyranny and filial autocracy.
The hero over there who averts his glance from mine, who in shame and embarassment gazes away from me.
With a natural impulse of womanly shame she avertsher face from all those eyes and hides it against the flowery bank.
She glances at Fainacky, and instantly averts her eyes.
The glances of the two men meet; involuntarily Lato averts his from Fainacky's face, and as he does so he is conscious of a slight embarrassment, which the other takes a malicious delight in noticing.
Here he made towards her the gesture with finger and thumb which averts the evil eye.
The other nodded, and made with his digits that "fig of Spain" which averts the evil eye; but under his loose blouse half furtively as if ashamed of his precaution.
A propitiatory sacrifice averts punishment from the offerer.
I am the true Paschal Lamb, whose blood sprinkled on the doorposts averts the sword of the destroying Angel, whose flesh, partaken of, gives immortal life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "averts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
