But if the man had not learned to handle a bicycle, and balance himself on one, he would swerve for a few yards and then fall.
Were he to press too hard upon the rudder-bar, were the wing-tip to strike the tower instead of sweeping past it, his machine would swerve sideways with the momentum of its rush, and break itself to fragments as it crashed upon the ground.
Neither the advice of friends, nor the wrath of foes, couldswerve him, no, not one moment, nor one hairbreath.
But if the distance of the sun below the horizon when the dawn first appeared betaken into account, it will become evident that the solar rays must have been caused to swerve from their rectilineal course by reflection.
Our muscles were sorely tried by the twisting round the splintered turrets of the arete, but a long, long stretch of the ridge must be passed before we can venture to swerve from it.
Below me on the left-hand side was a jutting cliff, which bore the thrust of the river and caused the Aar to swerve from its direct course.
However, all he could say was insufficient to prevail on me to swerve from the fidelity I had vowed to observe to my brother.
Well, I trudged on and on, and I am sure I must have gone miles, but no duck pond; and I was beginning to despair of ever seeing it, when a sudden swerve in the road revealed it to me.
He raised the stick and made a long swerve sideways, but the other, picking up the hammer from the hearth, jerked it above his head and stood braced for the assault.
The blow was not hard enough to cause the Winner to swerve from her course or to upset the boat, but it threw the girls into a panic, and standing up in the boat, it almost immediately capsized.
He had indeed got 'em more thoroughly than he supposed, for as the air left one of the rear tires, they saw the car suddenly swerve to the right, and before the driver could regain control, it had turned turtle into the ditch by the road side.
The rain did not swerve from its work; it came down steadily; they could not see through the swift lead-colored drops.
She will never swerve one iota from her lofty standard, and some day, please God, she may yet wear her coveted crown right royally.
You know the conditions; and I promise you I will not swerveone iota.
Suffer no brilliant sophistry to dazzle your judgment, no remnant of prejudice to swerve you from the path of fidelity to your oath.
You may disappoint the ambition of your parents, you may be unable to distinguish yourself as you fondly hoped; but let this not swerve you from a determination to be a son of whose moral character they need never be ashamed.
And he no longer dared to dodge, because at every swerve that limp burden slid far to one side and dragged itself back with groans of agony.
When John maps out a course to act upon, if he believes he is right, nothing can swerve him--nothing.
He had reached one determination, and nothing on earth would swerve him.
Then he tried frantically toswerve out of the line of the rush of this terrible guardian of the treasure-horde.
The rush of the charging herd was hard on his heels as he reached the tree, and he had just time to swerve around its trunk and grip one of the vinelike tentacles which had not yet become a part of the solid shell of the strangler.
It is from these that our faith and spiritual understanding of God and his Christ is opposed and contradicted, and from these also that we are so inclinable to swerve from right doctrine into destructive opinions.
Rebuffed by kings, scorned by queens, he did not swerve a hair's breadth from the overmastering purpose which dominated his soul.
Polly backed further and further away from the awful vision before her—the wife of the horse–fiend at least—and every fresh swerve sent a new lot of furze–pricks into the peppery legs of Rufus.
The result must be that the comely young oak, just proud of its first big crop of acorns, would swerve on the bias of the wind, stagger heavily, and fall headlong upon the smart new fence.
Could the young but conceive a tithe of the misery I endured, they would never after swerve from the truth.
Peterkin's attention was drawn to me, and his ox, as if aware of the fact, seized the opportunity to swerve violently to one side, thereby throwing its rider off.
No bodily pang had power to swerveyour soul: Ye, in a cynic age of crumbling faiths, Lived to bear witness to the living Lord, Or died a thousand deaths.
For naught hath power to swerve the steadfast soul Within that valley broken and made whole.
The Richard dipped with a swerve which threw him violently against the coaming.
