After her death, to avoyd envy and scandall, he retired in to Gresham Colledge at London, where he diverted himselfe with his chymistry, and the professors' good conversation.
One was an ingeniose proposall of a publique banke, as I remember, for the easy raysing of money and to avoyd the griping usurers and to promote trade.
He hearing of this merchant Colbert to be a great master in this art, sends for him and desires him to make inspection into his accounts and putt him into a better method to avoyd being abused.
To avoyd which mistakes, and render to those termes of Commanding, Counselling, and Exhorting, their proper and distinct significations, I define them thus.
For Slaves that work in Prisons, or Fetters, do it not of duty, but to avoyd the cruelty of their task-masters.
For seeing all names are imposed to signifie our conceptions; and all our affections are but conceptions; when we conceive the same things differently, we can hardly avoyd different naming of them.
For the same reason, to avoyd battell, is not Injustice, but Cowardise.
To him that can avoyd these things, it is not easie to fall into any absurdity, unlesse it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before.
If ever he speake French, to avoyd prolixity, he will murder the toung.
To avoyd prolixity I am crost with a Sutor that wants a piece of his toung, and that makes him come lisping home.
Zounds, men are mortall; to avoyd prolixity, My lord of Orleance, your best course is flying, And therein I will be your follower.
To avoyd prolixity Ile kill him; yet first give me leave to weepe for my master.
In this Chapter our Authour prescribes some rules how to avoyd flattery, and not to fall into contempt.
But such was my agility, not to get me any prayse, but rather for feare: at that time I remembered with my selfe, that the valiant Horse Pegasus did fly in the ayre more to avoyd the danger of dreadful Chimera, then for any thing else.
The old man after long deliberation, thought there was no better way to avoyd the storme of cruell fortune to come, then to run away.
We shall have occasion to return more than once to an analogous myth referring to Indras.
So he is Sir, for he lives With one that is undone--avoyd us boy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "avoyd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
