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Sentences ending with averted

Unconsciously, unintentionally, she smiled at him now, then, realising, retreated, shrinking from him, her face averted. [11]
More men of rank run at him, and he is finally captured and borne away; and we all breathe freer that the danger to royalty is averted. [4]
As for the inhabitants, some of them who had once bowed to us with a smile now passed with faces averted. [9]
His eyes were half-closed, giving them a sulky look, and his head was averted. [11]
And think of all the trouble and tragedy that will have been averted. [9]

More example sentences with the word averted in them

He had never wished evil to any one who did not injure him, but even if he could have averted this sore sorrow from the Emperor Rudolph he would not have stirred a finger. [10]
The fairest future was promised to Balbilla; the bull to whom she had to offer a cake, with her face averted, had approved of her gift and had touched her hand with his moist muzzle. [10]
There was no voice of rebuke; but there were averted eyes; there was a silence and an air of solemnity that struck a chill to the culprit's heart. [5]
She breathed quickly through her parted lips, and from the yearning in her tired eyes --as she gazed at the poor little form--he averted his glance. [9]
Zorrillo often met them, when they passed the guildhall, and Florette always gave him a friendly greeting with her whip, but he intentionally averted his eyes or if he could not avoid it, coldly returned her recognition. [10]
Instead of pursing the theme he had in his mind, Quilp folded his arms again, and looked at her more sternly than before, while she averted her eyes and kept them on the ground. [12]
Then she took the package from her bosom, and gave it with averted face to Master Byles Gridley, who, on receiving it, made her a formal but not unkindly bow, and bade her good evening. [6]
Hours elapsed ere the advancing multitude reached the camp, and Miriam who stood describing to Amminadab, whose eyes were no longer keen enough to discern distant objects, what was passing below, witnessed many an incident from which she would fain have averted her gaze. [10]
All the will that was left him averted his head. [9]
It was evident that the affair so lightly begun could no longer be averted but was taking its course independently of men's will. [2]
Let us hope that fighting will be postponed or averted for a while, but if it must come-- I am most emphatically in sympathy with the movement, now on foot in Russia, to make that country free. [5]
Who averted the sorest ill treatment from my head? [10]
Early that morning she had averted her lips from his because she felt as if the Emperor's kiss had consecrated them. [10]
Blushing at his own weakness, he averted his eyes from the Queen, and when he met those of Proculejus and the other witnesses of the scene, he realized the abyss on whose verge he stood. [10]
In that case, only about twenty were admitted to the secret; and yet one of them, in his anxiety to save a friend, betrayed the plot to that friend, and, by consequence, averted the calamity. [7]
The time was not yet come when neighbor stared coldly upon neighbor, when friends of long standing passed each other with averted looks. [9]
Meantime, Zorrillo had not averted his eyes from Navarrete and his companion. [10]
Then the old man, from whom the youth had not averted his eyes for an instant, beckoned, and Cagliari called him, saying that he, the gallant Antonio Moor's pupil, must now show what he could do; the Master, Titian, would give him a task. [10]
Then he brought it reverently, offered it to the collector, averted his face and said: "Take it, but don't let me see it go. [5]
They succeeded, however, in preserving the lion's share of the precious booty for a time of need, and thus averted much drunkenness, though the spirit of the grape-juice and the pleasure in obtaining so rich a prize doubtless enhanced the grateful excitement of the throng. [10]
And she averted her eyes from his glance. [9]
Also, once she had saved a settlement by riding ahead of a marauding Indian band to warn their intended victims, and had averted another tragedy of pioneer life. [11]
Her eyes flitted from bench to bench, yet met nothing save averted glances. [9]
Nancy, with her face averted, listened in silence--a silence that continued some time after I had ceased to speak. [9]
Laura began to encounter cold looks, averted eyes and peculiar nods and gestures which perplexed her beyond measure; but presently the pervading gossip found its way to her, and she understood them--then. [5]
Whether it was by the use of the means ordered by the old Doctor, or by the efforts of nature, or by both together, at any rate the first danger was averted, and the immediate risk from brain fever soon passed over. [6]
It had been better for him--it had, maybe, averted what people were used to term his tragedy--had he read his brother's letter at that moment. [11]
The head was averted, but a rough beard covered the face, and, in the light of the fire, one hand that clutched it showed long and skinny and yellow and cruel. [11]
With rapid steps and averted head Miriam drew the trembling Milcah on and gave her to the care of her uncle Naashon to lead home. [10]
The heads of all save three were averted, and they were Luke Claridge, his only living daughter, called Faith, and his dead daughter's son David, who kept his eyes fixed on the window where the twig flicked against the pane. [11]
The Roman looked after her, and as she passed by Hadrian's statue, and, as she did so, dropped her head rather lower than before, he roughly ordered her to stop and to tell him why she had averted her face from the statue of Caesar. [10]
Thy horoscope was a threatening, a very threatening one, but its omens may be averted, they may . [10]
But there was a shame after its kind; and if it were not averted, there was the end of the home, of the prestige, the pride and the hope of "M'sieu' Jean Jacques, philosophe. [11]
August 31, 1863 It is not improbable that retaliation for the recent great outrage at Lawrence, in Kansas, may extend to indiscriminate slaughter on the Missouri border, unless averted by very judicious action. [7]

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