Nothing short of total inability to continue would have preventedthem from working, such was the terror with which that man had inspired us all.
Chain-slings were passed around the carcases, which gripped the animal at the "small," being prevented from slipping off by the broad spread of the tail.
The flying spray drenched us and prevented us from seeing him, but I fully realized that it was nothing to what we should have to put up with if the wind freshened much.
So we were quite impatient to get along fretting considerably at the persistent fogs whichprevented our making much progress while in the vicinity of the Kuriles.
We were all heartily welcome to whatever was going, but there was a general air of restraint, a fear of breaking the Sabbath, which prevented us from trespassing too much upon the hospitality of these devout children of the sun.
These solemn promises, however, have not prevented the race of Abraham from becoming the slaves of a vile nation, that was detested by the Eternal; his dear friends experienced the most cruel treatment on the part of the Egyptians.
If this God, who knows all things, foresees all things, and possesses all power, had prevented or foreseen the fault of Adam, it would not have been necessary for God to sacrifice his own innocent Son to appease his fury.
The enemy, being thus compelled to watch all three routes, were prevented from assembling in any force.
The path zigzagged up the hill and, while the movements of the troops could be seen by the natives on its crest, dense foliage prevented the men toiling up it from obtaining even a glimpse of the enemy.
The enemy were now fully aware that the precipice was being scaled, and it was only the well-directed fire of the covering party that prevented them from issuing from their defences, and annihilating the party with rocks and boulders.
The jungle grass, however, prevented this from being carried out, and the heavy gun was therefore ordered up.
The paddlers at once sprang out, and prevented the boat from being carried out by the receding wave.
These attacked position after position on the eastern slope, and their fire was so accurate that it effectually prevented the enemy on the eastern side from concentrating.
The pertinacity of the attack through the day prevented the besieged from suspecting the inferiority in numbers of the attacking force.
A gunboat prevented his cavalry and artillery from occupying the town next day, but was driven away by the fire of the infantry.
The danger of drawing the enemy's fire prevented the lighting of camp-fires.
It made Buell's advance slow, but it prevented the new troops from being worn out, and brought them in good condition onto the field.
Be all the books--" Peggy's mirth prevented his oaths from being heard.
This having been the manner in which the Squire was said to have evaded the duel, it is unnecessary to say that Art's readiness to refresh his memory on the subject prevented him from being received at the Big House in future.
The widow's anxiety prevented her from seeing it in a ludicrous light; but Owen's severe face assumed a grave smile, as the man shook himself and attempted to comprehend the nature of his situation.
The love of liquor, and the disinclination to give it up, still lurked in his heart, and prevented him from setting about his amendment in earnest.
A smaller hill, around the base of which went the same imperfect road that crossed the glen of Tubber Derg, prevented him from seeing the grave-yard to which he was about to extend his walk.
His parents' anxiety that he should grow strong, prevented them from training him to any kind of employment.
Art's last fit of intoxication was not only a triumph over himself, but, what was still more, a triumph over his brother, who had so often prevented him from falling into their snares and joining in their brutal excesses.
Night closing in almost directly prevented any search for the missing animals.
The trees prevented them from seeing the extreme edge, while from the boat I could see through the branches a great part of the bivouac.
The cold had caused the blood from her wound to clot, and prevented the loss from being too great.
But we were prevented by the illness of Mr. Randal, who had been the guide and counsellor of our whole party.
He, with his political advisers, prevented her from driving the English quite out of France.
The upshot was that Major Forbes decided to return, but was prevented from doing so by a letter received from Dr.
The Park walls at their back prevented the infantry from seeking ignoble security in flight, after the fashion of the dragoons, and they were forced to lay down their weapons and beg for quarter.
The maister gunner, finding himselfe prevented and maistered by the greater number, would have slaine himselfe with a sword had he not beene by force withhold and locked into his cabben.
This was, however, prevented by the lackeys, who stretched him on the floor, and Bessé bandaged the foot before the patient had recovered from his fainting fit.
Now, it was only an accident that prevented his treachery being successful.
If animal pleasure becomes insipid when the spirit is roused by a different object, it is well known, likewise, that the sense of pain is prevented by any vehement affection of the soul.
Our enemies, the Shoshones, during the summer stole our horses, by which we were prevented from hunting, and drove us from the banks of the river, so that we could not get fish.
Scarcely were they through the straits than the wind, veering to the south-east, prevented them from making the course they had fixed upon, but they were able to coast along by the shore of Spain.
At this point was a sort of hanging door formed of rushes backed with osiers, and so arranged that at the slightest push from without the door lifted and enabled a wild-fowl to pass under, but dropping behind it prevented its exit.
To dream of seeing acrobats, denotes that you will be prevented from carrying out hazardous schemes by the foolish fears of others.
If you dream of being confined in a gaol, you will be prevented from carrying forward some profitable work by the intervention of envious people; but if you escape from the gaol, you will enjoy a season of favorable business.
This prevented the ankle's being cut as badly as it would have been, if the corks had been sharper.
Marco explained to him how he saw the boys, and what he thought that they were doing, and what induced him to go and see them, and how he was prevented from coming back as he had intended.
The children of these queens ranked next in order to those whose mothers belonged to the solar race, but nothingprevented them marrying their brothers or sisters of pure descent, and being eventually raised to the throne.
Seti had worked indefatigably at Thebes, but the shortness of his reign prevented him from completing the buildings he had begun there.
Abydos prevented Champollion and Rosellini from classifying these sovereigns with any precision.
It was even alleged that he had ventured into Europe, but that the lack of provisions and the inclemency of the climate had prevented him from advancing further than Thrace.
The king's prompt action, however, prevented their resulting in a general war.
The English engineers have succeeded in barring out the sand, and have prevented it from pouring over the cliff any more.
Without a word, Brotherson stood, watching him go till he saw his hand fall on the knob when he quietlyprevented his exit by saying: "Unhappy truths cannot be long concealed.
She had not closed the door; something within--a hope or a dread--had prevented that.
Lord Aberdeen was frankly told that the United States had committed "mistakes" in the past; and that the "American pretensions" which had prevented a former arrangement would not be revived.
The talk of "spoils" was amply justified; but the abuses of patronage had not prevented Jackson's popularity, and under Van Buren they were far less serious.
But the rapid increase of his malady preventedhim from proceeding farther than Margate, where he died about the beginning of August, attended in his last moments by his son Richard.
The unpleasant situation I was in prevented my seeing her as often as I could wish.
The lateness of the hour prevented any but very hasty discussion, and Adam and myself proceeded, by His Royal Highness's orders, to your house to relate what had passed to Lord Grey.
You had lost a mother who would have cherished you, whose talents you inherited, who would have softened the asperity of our father's temper, and probably have prevented his unaccountable partialities.
Many of our Indian wars would have been prevented had there not been on their part the violation of engagements in a manner which showed they never intended to keep them an hour longer than they were compelled by circumstances.
Many mistakes would be prevented if English people would remember that we have in India nations differing widely from each other.
Even in this case there were national and religious differences, which effectually prevented the intimacy which is often maintained where such differences do not exist.
He told us how the impression had gone out that the enemy were on us, and how the panic might have been prevented if information of the state of affairs had been given.
I have seen many an old house resting upon four heaps of rough stones, the latter having faithfully supported the edifice for years, and prevented the sills from rotting from contact with the damp earth.
As for crows, coons, squirrels, and numerous other creatures possessed by me at different times, only death or forcible detention ever prevented them from returning to the place where plenty of food and kindness awaited them.
After the defeat at Actium, Cleopatra, in imitation of this example, tried to take her fleet over the isthmus in order to escape to India, but was prevented by the inhabitants of Arabia Petraea, who burnt her ships.
She said she hated Adela for having prevented her from being chosen mother.
Only the bright and cheerful vision of old Miss Wragge being pushed about the house in her noiseless chair, chatting and nodding briskly to every one she met, prevented us from giving way entirely to the depression which governed the majority.
Something in the house that prevented his feeling funny," repeated the doctor.
In order to be able to keep to it, I pretended an increase of the pains in my thigh, which prevented my getting up; but the truth was, I neither could nor would see anybody, I felt so miserable.
One court day the Empress said to Madame Tchoglokoff that this fashion of riding prevented my having children, and that my dress was not at all becoming; that when she rode on horseback she changed her dress.
The Grand Duke returned home, and went to bed, but the next morning he awoke with a violent headache, which preventedhim from rising.
The matter rested there, and the Duke felt grateful to me as well for the pomade which had spared him unpleasant results, as for my presence of mind, which had prevented all suspicion even in the case of M.
This pain prevented me from sleeping, and this brought on a violent fever.
I waited for him until three o'clock in the morning, and was in deadly anxiety as to what could have prevented his coming.
But the rapid and daring advance of Cæsar prevented their concentration.
He had hardly withdrawn to his Bohemian estates, when Gustavus Adolphus, who had been hithertoprevented from affording active assistance to the Protestant party, landed in Pomerania with a small but highly disciplined army.
The sultan, however, with a large body of men had occupied the passes of the Balkans and prevented their farther advance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prevented" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
