We have got some heavy, quick work ahead of us," Charley said quickly enough to forestall the volley of eager questions on the tip of his excited chum's tongue.
In this attempt toforestall his enemies Jonson succeeded, and "Poetaster" was an immediate and deserved success.
And animated with this intention to forestall her disclosure, his long strides bore him swiftly past and into the house.
She hoped to forestall the deputy sheriff and his posse, following the circuitous mountain road.
But you need not distress yourself: I found Herr Elmhorst quite ready to forestall my wishes, and we parted, understanding each other perfectly.
Since she had been betrothed to Waltenberg her position in the household had undergone a change; Frau von Lasberg no longer permitted herself to find fault with her, and the president was always ready to forestall his niece's wishes.
Just as the bargain with Hancock secured the necessary votes for the Constitution in the Massachusetts Convention, so did the personal behavior of the Constitutionalists forestall any outbreak of protest after ratification.
The letter was not dated from the Archbishop's palace, but from the Home of the Little Lay-Sisters; and it was thither that he repaired, in order to forestall her humble yet amazing offer to wait upon him.
It was absolutely necessary, therefore, to forestall any reports of that speech in the metropolitan press.
Authoritative circulation of the plan--which means that the plan must be neither long nor over-secret--can help forestall such mistakes.
A more modest more calculated national propaganda effort would have helped forestall those attitudes which, in turn, made World War II possible.
But sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, and that in the matter of death as well as of life; if we are not to forestall the difficulties of living, surely we are not to forestall the sorrows of dying.
This notion does but forestall the more recent doctrine that electricity is more or less in all, or nearly all, known matter.
As the magician can either cause or cure sickness, we sometimes find, besides these magical spirits whose function is to do evil, others who forestall or neutralize the evil influence of the former.
For this reason it uses all its authority upon its members to forestall such dissidences.
But it was not established to forestall these mythical dangers or to assure particular advantages.
We had, therefore, to be content to forestall any possible catastrophes by other and less arbitrary means.
She gradually became accustomed to seeing me appear just in time to forestall her wishes.
And to forestallyour next question--no, our system does not create problems.
Hence even younger children cannot help but pick up many things now that will tend to forestall the indifference or aversion with which school studies were regarded not longer than fifty years ago.
He received a chorus of praises for his foresight, and Mr Mason expressed his eagerness to commence excavations at once, in order to forestall the others.
And if they have retained the missing leaf they may post up to Scotland and forestall us there," My companion remarked dubiously.
Forewarned is forearmed in any soldier camp; and through his blabbing, the plan by which I had hoped to lull resentment and forestall suspicion was nipped in the bud.
I'se sorry," he said in a small voice, trying to forestall the scolding he knew was coming.
So early as August, 1667, steps had been taken by the Estates of Holland to forestall the danger that threatened.
George Wood, who had remained at the store in his brother's absence, possibly witnessed his brother's fate and attempted to forestall a similar one for himself by striving to reach the settlers' cabins.
It was to forestall delays caused by the melting snows that they started about the first of March for the lake region with ox wagons heavily laden with seed, food supplies, and agricultural implements.
Bertrand had yielded the point and had taken her to the jail against his own judgment, taking Mary with him to forestall the chance of Betty's seeing the young man alone.
It was therefore essential for Athens to forestall this coming danger by interfering forthwith to uphold her remaining allies against the encroachments of Syracuse.
