The same motive of warding off evil spirits probably explains the custom observed by some African sultans of veiling their faces.
Throwing the sticks forward was symbolic of piercing or warding off the enemy, and drawing them back was symbolic of drawing their own men from danger.
The hanging guard, or modifications thereof, is capable of warding off all cuts made at the left side of the head and body, and is also effective against cut 7.
She sees joy throw up her arms as though warding off a blow, and turning finds that LEVER is standing in the opening of the wall.
Putting up her hand, as though warding off a blow.
This ease in warding off external attack had its most marked effect upon the internal polity of the nation.
But it was not merely in the simple facility of warding off external attack that the insular position of England was so serviceable.
Under all these names Apollo does not so much appear bestowing positive good as assuaging and warding off evil; and in this character he was invoked (according to an oracle) to send health and good fortune.
All these parries have nothing in common except warding off the same blow, and this it is, and nothing else, which is meant when we say they are movements terminating at the same point of space.
They kept flying back and forth, just as they do when they're warding off a foe from their nest.
Halla shields her face with her hands as though warding off a blow.
In Samoa the club is used for warding off lances, and the warriors frequently exercise themselves in this practice.
The 'kerri' sticks of the Hottentots are used for wardingoff stones and assegais.
But henceforth would he hold all still till he should have tidings of Folk-might; so nought was done thereafter save the warding of the Dale, from the country of the Shepherds to the Waste above the Eastern passes.
But one hundred of men let us leave behind for the warding of the Burg, even as we agreed before.
Therewith he made an end, and shouts and glad cries arose all about the hall; and an old man arose and cried: 'A cup to the memory of the Mighty of the Day of the Warding of the Ways.
As to the other matters whereof they took rede at this Folk-mote, they had mostly to do with the warding of the Dale, and the learning of the delivered thralls to handle weapons duly.
Even so say I,' said the Alderman; 'besides, we might theft leave more folk behind us for the warding of the Dale.
Here then on the morn of the eve of the wedding We pray to the Mighty that we too may bear Such war-walls for warding of orchard and steading, That the new days be merry as old days were dear.
Your whole life will be one long course of swallowing the consequences and warding off criticism.
While Janet was warding off this missile, the playwright made good his escape.
It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.
Defn: One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm; as: (a) A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.
Defn: A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.
A knock is heard; he steps back in horror and stretches out his hands toward the door, as if warding off something.
Goalie Bud Gray did heroic work in warding off a rain of vicious shots.
His shot was accurate, a startled Melville goalie wardingit off with his chest pad.
In the village in question no case had yet occurred, but the inhabitants feared that the dreaded visitor would soon arrive, and the following ingenious contrivance was adopted for warding off the danger.
For the purpose of warding off the danger he called together the neighbouring Princes, and urged them to join him in an expedition against the new enemy.
Though by well warding many blows we've pass'd, II.
Though by well warding many blows we've pass'd, That stroke most fear'd is which is struck the last.
Thou seest how those Rutulian men trust in their warding keep; How wide apart the watch-fires shine; how slack with wine and sleep Men lie along; how far and wide the hush o'er all things lies.
Ruth Dale put out her hands as ifwarding off a blow.
Dazed as she was by what he had said, she was frightened at his manner, and drew back, warding him off with rigid hands.
What should I do but live amongst my people, warding them from evil, and loving them and giving them good counsel?
Ralph gave her into the warding of the Sage, who was armed at all points, and looked a valiant man of war.
Study him as he walks the floor through the hours of the night warding off imaginary dangers with agitated anger and gentle hearted ignorance.
He came up running, and shot forward with that peculiar, side-wheeling motion that many men acquire from running with a foot ball under one arm while warding off tacklers with the other arm stiff.
Primitive medicine stands midway between magic and religion, as an attempt to safeguard health by control of so-called supernatural processes, and the warding off of evil influences by appeal to the gods.
But the bucket and its contents I guarded, as he struck at it from right to left, by rapidly changing it from left to right with one hand and warding off the spear with the other.
The potency of charms in warding off evil spirits is believed in.
The bride is taken to the house of the bridegroom, where they sit side by side on a plank, and the ceremony of warding off the evil eye is performed.
Human sacrifice is considered efficacious in appeasing the earth spirit, and in wardingoff devils during the construction of a new railway or big bridge.
And they that have given umbrellas proceed along this way with umbrellas warding off the sun's rays.
They fully know all sorts of Brahma and celestial and human and Vayavya weapons, together with the modes of using and warding them off.
And these delighting in blood, warding off the shafts of Daitya, pierced his head, bosom and face.
But under the circumstances they become a necessity; and their position is openly recognized as serving the special end of warding off temptation from those women favored by fate, who have found, or may hope to find, husbands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "warding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
