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Example sentences for "turned aside"

  • But Helen Yardely was not so easily to be turned aside.

  • But there was another that was reached by a short portage through the woods from the subsidiary stream from which he turned aside, a waterway which fed the lake, and which cut off at least a hundred and twenty miles.

  • But the unfairness of such action prevented him from doing so, and though he was strongly tempted he turned aside.

  • Turned aside; deviating from a direct line or course.

  • An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.

  • A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.

  • I turned aside, and there below me in the glen was the lonesome grey church, the porch where I had waited for the coming of the woman in white, the hills encircling the quiet burial-ground, the brook bubbling cold over its stony bed.

  • As I turned aside to get round to the vestry, I heard heavy footsteps close to me.

  • I turned aside, and walked out across the hall and into the empty study.

  • Val Beverley looked at me appealingly then shrugged her shoulders, turned aside, and walked in the direction of Madame de Stämer's door.

  • I turned aside as the door opened and Dr.

  • On leaving Askrigg, we turned aside to see another waterfall.

  • And not a look he turned aside; His eyes were forward bent; And slow the eyelids opened wide, As towards the throne he went.

  • But in the gloom and rain he turned aside, And let the drops soak through the sinking clay-- What mattered it to him?

  • Till with short, dragging steps, he turned aside Into a closer thicket of tall firs, Whose bare, straight, slender stems behind them hide A smooth grey rock.

  • And her heart filled up with gladness, Till it could only ache; And it turned aside to sadness, As if for pity's sake.

  • As fate would have it, instead of entering the house he turned aside to the garden and walked down that pleasant enclosure, to learn if he were likely to find in the other half of it the woman he loved so well.

  • Whenever there was a pool of water by the road he turned aside to drink a mouthful, and remained there his own time in spite of Molly's tug at the reins and futile fly-flapping on his rump.

  • With a brief laugh he turned aside, dismissing the subject.

  • He turned aside to the room in which she generally sat, standing back for her to pass him.

  • Hassan's voice recalled him; and he turned aside to procure it.

  • The thought was unpleasant, and he turned aside as if to avoid it; but at the movement his eyes fell on Chilcote's cigarette-box with its gleaming monogram, and the whimsical suggestion of his first morning rose again.

  • Loder returned his questioning gaze; but almost immediately he turned aside.

  • In silence Loder brought out the whiskey and set it on the table; then instinctively he turned aside.

  • He turned aside when he had spoken, that he might not see her face; and for a long moment there was a silence between them which Anstice, for one, could not have broken.

  • Anstice's brow was wet with drops of sweat as he finished, his whole being convulsed with reminiscent agony; and he turned aside lest he should read shrinking, or worse, condemnation in the grey eyes which had never left his face.

  • The whole of his remark I could not collect: he turned aside, and (I believe) prayed.

  • I must do my duty; I must accomplish what is commanded me; I must not be turned aside.

  • A wise and upright man, whose serious thoughts lead him forward to religion, will never be turned aside from it by any worldly consideration or any human force.

  • She stood with her head bent, turned aside.

  • He turned aside, he could not look, it hurt his eyes.

  • When her pains began afresh, tearing her, he turned aside, and could not look.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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