As long as this charm is preserved and the patient abstains from eating of this variety of plantain, the effects of the bite are warded off.
We say that they were abandoned on account of a great famine or a severe epidemic, but to the native mind these afflictions are the work of the local deity, who could have wardedthem off had he been so disposed.
Balin warded the blow with his sword, but the heavy mace shivered the sword to pieces in his hand.
The knight warded the blow with his sword, and dealt such a buffet in return that he cut the churl almost in twain.
But Lancelot cunningly warded the blow with the bough, and then struck the knight so mightily on the side of the head with it that he stunned him.
It is likened to a shock of electricity sudden and sharp, which strikes in the centre of the heart, causes vomiting and spitting of blood, and may, if not warded against, end in the death of the victim.
He warded off the few blunders, and at the third change she had another well-bred partner.
There was Ben Upham, but Edward Saltonstall warded them off to her satisfaction.
He followed this up with a tremendous blow at his head, which Robert Leask, one of the Company's servants, fortunately warded off with the paddle of his canoe, which was cut in two by the blow.
The latter was unarmed, and warded the blows with his wrist, which was severely gashed.
Scathe to many a man is lightlywarded off by forethought.
Then the old man warded him; in sooth he was brave enow.
Many a stout spear was hurled upon them, but the bold and lordly warriors warded them in knightly wise.
As befitted good knights, the strangers warded off King Etzel's liegemen the livelong summer day.
It was warded off for a time, and he grew into a strong, hearty man: it might perhaps have been warded off for good.
By exercising self-control sickness will be warded off.
If the circulation could be maintained and the purity of the blood stream guarded, old age would be warded off.
If this be so, then disease can certainly be warded off by filters of cotton wool.
It is proper that we should {12} understand the construction and powers of our bodies; but it is our duty, as rational beings, to know the laws by which health and strength may be maintained and disease warded off.
Namuchi answered, 'By indulging in such sorrow as cannot be warded off one only wastes one's body and gladdens one's foes.
When any such calamity comes, productive of either physical or mental grief, as is incapable of being warded off by even one's best efforts, one should cease to reflect on it with sorrow.
He warded off with his elbows the exultant uprising and deposited the instrument tenderly on a handkerchief spread by his wife on a corner of the hatch.
It offered all the facilities for a bath, however, and moreover under an overhanging mass of rock that warded off the sun had watered to un-Spanish greenness a patch of grass of a few feet each way.
He warded them off with his stick, and ascended the stair.
Fischhof warded off the first blow that was aimed at him.
But men deemed it o'er-well warded by more than its stems of fight, And told how its earth-born watchers yet lived of plenteous might.
The Princesses, her daughters, were worthy of her; and if a few degraded beings did aim the shafts of calumny at them, these shafts dropped harmless, warded off by the elevation of their sentiments and the purity of their conduct.
Vanot, commandant of battalion, warded off a blow aimed by a wretch against the King; a grenadier of the Filles Saint Thomas parried a sword-thrust made in the same direction.
All were naturally made prisoners after a resistance which would have cost my brother his life if the bugler at his side had not warded off a saber blow at his head.
For a moment the young reporter was staggered by the suddenness and force of this unexpected attack, and only partially warded a stunning blow aimed full at his face.
His one idea was still to get to the car, and under a shower of blows, that he warded to the best of his ability, or bore unflinchingly, he struggled forward.
Her arm was bleeding; she had partlywarded off the blow aimed at him, and had saved his life.
O happy, sure, beyond the common rate, Who warded off, so long, the stroke of fate!
He alonewarded off Vulcan's violence from the fleet.
And now he drew his sword therewith and set on Grettir eagerly; but Grettir warded himself with his shield, but bore no weapon against Thorod; and so things went awhile, nor was Grettir wounded.
And Illugi threw his shield over Grettir, and warded him in so stout a wise that all men praised his defence.
When Oliver died, the anarchy which he had warded off came swiftly upon the nation.
The presence of Goodson's ships and his activity warded off this danger, and it is partly to him, therefore, that we must attribute the merit of retaining this colonial possession.
The Carrols kept their own counsel, and warded off gossip as best they could.
But all this danger was warded from us by a gracious Providence: for as Ychoalay was quickly travelling towards us, he fell in with a numerous horde of hostile Nakaiketergehe Abipones.
They frequently eluded the attempts of the enemy by vigilance, oftener warded them off by dint of brave exertions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "warded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
