But she was equally anxious to avoid the displeasure of Madame Cheron.
You can't repeat it too often, as a lesson to you to avoid the subject in speaking to me.
Together with Alcibiades, Nicias, much against his will, was appointed general: and he endeavored to avoid the command, not the less on account of his colleague.
His impulse was to avoid the emotional, to talk with this problematic woman as with an intellectual friend of his own sex.
Peak asked, determined to avoid the trial he saw approaching.
To avoid the risk of a casual meeting with acquaintances, he did not go to London, but sat for his examination at the nearest provincial centre.
Not wishing to be long absent from Paris, and anxious to avoid the trouble of the journey to Milan, he arranged to meet the deputation half-way at Lyons.
Then she lay for a minute or two immovable, and then backed water, or turned to avoid the attack of an imaginary foe.
Murphy gave ground, blocked, ducked, exerted all a ring general's skill either to stop or avoid the rush.
Your wife was exposed to smallpox and is at my house to avoid the danger of spreading contagion.
He drove his buckboard rapidly over the twelve miles that separated his home from the distributing booms, for he wanted at once to avoid the heat of the first sun and to arrive at the commencement of the day's work.
And of all human possessions, the soul is by nature most inclined to avoid the evil, and track out and find the chief good; which when a man has found, he should take up his abode with it during the remainder of his life.
Heyward, perceiving that the eyes of his companion were warily fastened on the rest of the band, fell back immediately, in order to avoid the appearance of any suspicious confederacy with their leader.
Heyward yielded the guidance of the canoe implicitly to the scout, who approached or receded from the shore, to avoid the fragments of rocks, or deeper parts of the river, with a readiness that showed his knowledge of the route they held.
Cannot we make a circuit to avoid the danger," asked Heyward, "and come into our path again when it is passed?
They struck into narrow by-paths going back, to avoid the people.
Of course I do," was easily said, and to avoid the necessity of more, he kissed the pink dimples at the base of her four fingers, as well as the baby crease that marked the wrist.
Maurice made a movement to conceal his book, merely in order to avoid the explanation he new must follow; but was too late; Dove had espied it.
Then, at a noise in the corridor, he swung hastily from the room, and was just in time toavoid the master, against whom he brushed up in going out of the door.
To avoid the roughness of the way, they entered the by-path, that by measures of carnal policy they might avoid afflictions.
Wherefore let us (at least to avoid the shame, that becomes not a Christian to be found in) bear up with patience as well as we can.
In this perplexity Bedreddin happened to reach a pastry-cook's shop, and went into it to avoid the rabble.
Repressing a shudder, I faced the inquisitor, and thereafter kept my eyes upon him to avoid thesight of those other horrors.
He was very tall, so that he was forced to stoop to avoid the lintel of the low door--as tall as Gervasio or myself--and the tanned face was bearded by a heavy brown beard in which a few strands of grey were showing.
It is so bad with him that of late he has remained shut in the citadel, and seldom ventures abroad, so as to avoid the sight of the starving faces of the poor and the general ruin that he is making of that fair city.
Once she fancied she discerned a form flying ahead of her, leaping from cross tie to cross tie to avoid the water, but when she called vehemently, only the sound of her own voice broke the silence.
I was a walking shadow of my own sin; horrible to look upon--and I fled to avoid the gaze of my race.
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