To Wolsey, whose mind had been intent on the larger schemes of his foreign policy, the notion of staving off the hatred of the influential people about the King by gifts of money, would never have occurred.
I've promised a rip-staving skinner on Tom Brown in that Custom House affair.
There is no staving off the battle of life now--the tents are struck, the camp-fires put out, and one must be on the march.
Vertical staving was used to carry the wale around the stern.
The stern, usually round, was planked with vertical staving that produced a thin counter.
This vertical stavingwas usually 1-3/4 inches thick before it was finished.
The planking around the stern on these frames was vertical staving that had been tapered, hollowed, and shaped to fit the flare of the stern.
In the 1880's that part of the bulkhead above the step was made of vertical staving that curved athwartships, but this feature was later eliminated.
Twice two soldiers raised their muskets with a general notion of staving in my skull "pour passer le temps.
For the rest of the afternoon he was ever staving with a gloomy brow about the neighbourhood, keeping an eye, as he said, to the possible chance of the enemy.
MacLachlan came staving up the cobbles in a great hurry, flailing the air, as he went, with a short rattan, for he affected some of the foppish customs the old officers brought back from the Continent.
But there was a means of at least delaying the danger, of staving off the attack as long as Gracchus remained tribune, perhaps of giving the people an opportunity of recovering completely from their delirium.
His only hope for staving off eventual disaster is the possibility of hanging on by his eyelids until he dawns as the last forlorn hope on the horizon of some freckle-faced, red-haired old maid, with nine millions in her own right.
As for getting any more of the income, in time to be of any use in staving off the tidal wave of ruin that rose against him, there was no chance of that.
She did not allow herself to think, and she succeeded in stavingoff silence.
While pretending to aid us they were to have watched an opportunity of staving the boats, so as to prevent them from floating in the deeper channel, which runs close to the land near Pillage Point.
His bridge foreman, Ed Peeto, a staving big one-eyed French-Canadian, had but two ideas in life.
In a few moments the Grampus was upon one of these canoes, staving it in and tossing its splintered pieces to right and left.
Instead of staving the boat, however, the Grampus ran under her, the forward part of the small boat's keel sliding over the deck.
A revolution with the prospect of becoming president of the republic was the only means of staving off his creditors.
They were quite capable of staving off inconvenient advances, and preferred to do it by lighter methods than those used by Young George, and to get some amusement out of it besides.
What he had been staving off all day, instinctively, was the ugly possibility of Beatrix defying his authority.
I never felt such pity for any living thing, unless it was old Recoil, my first steeplechaser, when he lived for twenty-four hours after staving in his chest against a stone wall.
Probably the force of the water, where his body deflected it against the side, was of some help; but it must have come jolly near to staving in his ribs where it drove into him at right angles.
Both he and the Ambassador, however, thoroughly realized that the Emperor had no fixed plan, and was merely following his usual hand-to-mouth policy of staving off present at the cost of future embarrassments.
All the morning, as we loafed along, having a good time, other pedestrians went staving by us with vigorous strides, and with the intent and determined look of men who were walking for a wager.
That was the explanation of why the ordinary precautions forstaving off a panic were not taken by the partners.
I could see by the fuss he made about his cigarettes that he was nervous, staving off the moment.
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