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Sentences starting with prevent

Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. [7]

Sentences ending with prevent

The matron's remark that she, too, was invited to the reception at the imperial residence that evening brought an earnest entreaty from Eva to accept the invitation for her sake, and the Swabian promised to gratify her if nothing occurred to prevent. [10]
In his bones he felt tragedies on foot in Ireland which concession and good government could not prevent. [11]

Short sentences using prevent

What will prevent that? [6]
Gordon will prevent that. [11]
He will not prevent you. [11]
Pierre wished to prevent this. [11]
Will you not prevent them? [11]
What's to prevent it? [11]
Nothing can prevent it. [9]
Nothing could prevent it. [5]

Sentences containing prevent two or more times

That flea would be President of the United States, and you couldn't any more prevent it than you can prevent lightning. [5]

More example sentences with the word prevent in them

In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy's forces from leaving Richmond and falling in overwhelming force upon General McDowell. [7]
Here was what would prevent him from forgetting all that he had been and not been, all the happiness he might have had, all that he had lost--the ceaseless reminder. [11]
But how long would it take to turn that circle into a polygon, unless some mighty counteracting force should prevent it? [6]
But it lies with you to prevent it from ever breaking out; for I should always endeavor to fulfill a kindly expressed wish, if it were possible. [10]
He was endeavoring, with loud cries, to prevent a number of men of his own class from carrying a large chest out of the house. [10]
Speranski smiled and, with an evident wish to prevent the conversation from taking an unpleasant course, told a story that had no connection with the previous conversation. [2]
I hope you will exert your influence to prevent this. [7]
It's the men who ruin all this for us, I believe, and prevent our enjoying it. [9]
At this Andreas whispered to her: "You are afraid lest I should prevent your coming with us? [10]
Would the resentment which, since the day before, had again filled her soul have permitted her to prevent it had she possessed the power? [10]
A certain sentiment which we may call pride was so strong in him that he felt ready to make almost any sacrifice to prevent it. [9]
The Regulations under which the Traffic exists in Queensland are inadequate to prevent abuses, and in the nature of things they must remain so. [5]
The only thing which she still feared was that her aching throat might prevent her from freely pouring forth what so passionately agitated her soul. [10]
Doubtless the wounds which he had received still ached, yet his sorrowful experiences did not prevent his being an attentive observer. [10]
The Scythian guards, which at last put a stop to the frantic rage of the deluded populace, arrived too late to prevent the destruction of the house, but they saved Philotas and the other youths from the fists and stones of the rabble. [10]
But to know what can and what cannot be executed is impossible, not only in the case of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in which millions participated, but even in the simplest event, for in either case millions of obstacles may arise to prevent its execution. [2]
Tibet and Persia were not too far, and France was not too near to prevent the incalculably smooth working of a striking and far-reaching political move. [11]
If the patient were brought into a warm room, heat would be applied very rapidly, were not something interposed to prevent this, and allow its gradual admission. [3]
Very strict precautions were adopted to prevent those who thought more of the golden angel hung round the neck by a white ribbon, than of relief of their bodily infirmities, from making too many calls, as they sometimes attempted to do. [6]
On this point we fully agree with the Judge, and when he shall show that his policy is better adapted to prevent amalgamation than ours, we shall drop ours and adopt his. [7]
Stripped here, as we are here, it will be all we can do to prevent them crossing the Potomac at Harper's Ferry or above. [7]
Bad as Marchand was, to prevent his crime was far better than punishing him for it afterwards. [11]
His sole knowledge was that he had promised, with his hand on his heart, to do everything in his power to prevent what threatened to cause her pain. [10]
Even Sally Grover was powerless to prevent the inevitable, and the touch of her hand seemed the signal for the release of the pent-up forces. [9]
Still his condition was not such as to prevent him from going on with various projects he had been contemplating or from forming new ones. [4]
I, whose sight was long trained to darkness, could see a great distance round us, and so could prevent a trap, though once or twice we let our canoe drift with the tide, lest our paddles should be heard. [11]
The other harbour was devoted to commerce, but, in order to prevent the spread of false reports, newly arrived ships were forbidden to enter. [10]
This pure mind was an awful touchstone of conduct, and there was a fear that Evelyn's ignorance of life would prevent her from making the proper allowances. [4]
But he said, wait a minute--I must be vaccinated to prevent my taking the small-pox. [5]
For our factions, unless you would have me run away and leave the country, I cannot prevent them; because I do make many stay that would else fly away whither. [4]
As I always understood, the Liberty men deprecated the annexation of Texas extremely; and this being so, why they should refuse to cast their votes [so] as to prevent it, even to me seemed wonderful. [7]
She did not try to prevent him as he kissed her good-by. [9]
If he should try her at noon and find her guilty, there was nothing to prevent him from compelling her to drink the poisoned cup or having her strangled before evening. [10]
In regard to Trumbull's charge that he [Douglas] inserted a provision into the bill to prevent the constitution being submitted to the people, what was his answer? [7]
Sherman is coming to you, though gaps in the telegraph prevent our knowing how far he is advanced. [7]
Dr. Woodville, Physician to the Small-Pox and Inoculation Hospital in London, found it improbable, and exceedingly inconvenient to himself, that cow pox should prevent small-pox; but Dr. Jenner took the liberty to prove the fact, notwithstanding. [3]
A hurried question to the Cure from Charley, a key handed over, a nod from Jo, and before the Cure could prevent them the two men had rushed through the smoke and flame into the vestry, Portugais holding Charley's hand. [11]
It was hard to tell how much he might have to do to prevent the man from making mischief. [11]
If she wants to take the veil later, who can prevent it, but the abbess herself advises that she should have at least a glimpse of the world before leaving it. [10]
People may try to stop him, and they may tear down what he does, but he does at last what he starts to do, and no one can prevent him--not any one. [11]
But we desire to reach out beyond those personal outrages and establish a rule that will apply to all, and so prevent any future outrages. [7]
He directed measures to prevent the use of the post-office for treasonable correspondence. [7]
Must I stay, to prevent the misery that threatens to overtake others? [10]
I say, what's to prevent our employing this worthy woman, your mother? [12]
The only way to prevent it is to vaccinate, so to speak, with two or three houses, and wait; then it is not so likely to spread. [4]
He was out to prevent his own son from driving himself into private life, and he would lose no trick in the game, if he could help it. [11]
This device was to prevent great drinking, which might ensue if the full pot stood always at the elbow. [4]
The owners want to keep it to themselves, and prevent the general development. [4]
What is it to him that you can localize and name by some uncouth term the disease which you could not prevent and which you cannot cure? [6]
He went up to her kindly and said: "You need not cry; come to the well again always, I will not prevent you. [10]
As she started to do so, he hastened to prevent her, but, utterly surprised, he saw the horse whinny to her cheek, and arch his neck under her white palm--it was very white. [11]
When she had thrown herself upon him, the dog had pulled her down before he could prevent it: he would certainly have sprung past her and have come to the rescue but that he must thus have betrayed his visit to the tablinum. [10]
Yet in reality those personal interests of the moment so much transcend the general interests that they always prevent the public interest from being felt or even noticed. [2]
Our delight in this wondrous spectacle did not prevent this generous wish for the gratification of the whale. [4]
Adrian's activity for this night was not yet over, for his father did not prevent his accompanying him to the town-hall. [10]
He must prevent this crime, and warn the Governor. [11]
Nor do I think that to keep the peace at the polls, and to prevent the persistently disloyal from voting, constitutes just cause of offense to Maryland. [7]
At length, when they were come to some Indian mounds, they found a picket of three, companies of the force which had reached the flat the day before, and had been sent down to prevent the enemy from obstructing further the stream below the fleet. [9]
With churlish insolence they entered Guida's hut before Maitresse Aimable could prevent it. [11]
I allude to these sorrowful things only to prevent your praises of me at Hermon's expense. [10]
He knows that there is no power on earth that can prevent the return of the long skirt. [4]
Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object. [7]
Since when did the truest love prevent a man from being petulant, even to the extent of wounding those he best loves, especially if the loved one shows scruples when sympathy is needed? [4]
He was probably the only man who could have guided the nation through the perplexities of the reconstruction period in such a manner as to prevent in the work of peace the revival of the passions of the war. [7]
He foamed at the mouth, with low moans, and, before Alexander could prevent him, racked with pain and seeking for some support, he had set his teeth in the arm of the seat off which he was slipping. [10]
Thou canst accept the money for him, and when thou art in the Soudan, and he is going to do it, thou canst prevent it. [11]
She was only the lover of honest things, the friend, the good ally, obliged to flee a cause for its terrible unsoundness, yet trying to prevent wreck and ruin. [11]
The exhilaration of the long spring-board, the necessity of holding on to something or somebody to prevent being tossed overboard, put occupants in a larkish mood that they might never attain in an ordinary vehicle. [4]
But to keep the house without a vast fortune to sustain it was an impossibility, and, as it was the most conspicuous of Mavick's visible possessions, perhaps the surrender of it, which she could not prevent, would save certain odds and ends here and there. [4]
We clung to the hours and the minutes, counting them as they wasted away, and parting with them with that pain and bereavement which a miser feels who sees his hoard filched from him coin by coin by robbers and is helpless to prevent it. [5]
The statues of the gods had, before Caesar's arrival, been placed on the pedestals erected for them to prevent any risk of a demonstration at the appearance of the deified emperors. [10]
The object of the garrison was to prevent this. [10]
When Heinz, after the Emperor Rudolph had mentioned the latter name, earnestly entreated him to prevent Wolff's persecution, the sovereign promised to fulfil the wish as soon as the proper time came. [10]
If Eva entered the cloister before him, the only strong tie which united him to the world would be severed, and nothing save the thought of his mother would prevent his following his vocation. [10]
I was certain that, if Roscoe or Mr. Devlin were present, a prohibitive influence could be brought to bear; that some one of strong will could stand, as it were, in the gap between them, and prevent a pitched battle, and, possibly, bloodshed. [11]
Without money, save that which the generous Creoles had advanced upon his personal credit; without apparent resources; without authority, save that which the weight of his character exerted,--how could he prevent desertion? [9]
It happened, however, that on the day he wired, the strikers tried to prevent the non-strikers from going to work and there was a collision. [11]
All the stories that can be found in old manuscripts will never prevent the going out of the fires of the legendary Inferno. [6]
Justice has a swift foot here with us; I am sorry for the man, but I cannot prevent its taking its course. [10]
Then the sufferer, summoning all her strength, exclaimed hastily, as loudly as her voice would permit, after measuring the prophetess' tall figure with a long glance: "You wish to prevent me from doing my duty--you? [10]
It has been suggested, that slight differences in these organs would suffice to prevent the intercrossing of well-marked varieties or incipient species, and would thus aid in their development. [1]
Guards patrol the streams to prevent poaching it. [5]
In the border States, so called,--in fact, the middle States,--there are those who favor a policy which they call "armed neutrality"; that is, an arming of those States to prevent the Union forces passing one way, or the disunion the other, over their soil. [7]
She was freshly startled by a struggle behind her, and, turning quickly, she saw Madame Marie holding the Seigneur's arm to prevent him from ending his own life. [11]
Myrtilus, who, in spite of his feeble health, by no means lacked courage, found it especially hard to bear that during the conflicts he was locked up with Bias, but even Ledscha could neither prevent nor restrict these measures. [10]
You could do so much to straighten things out, to prevent the worst. [11]
Such men, mostly sincere and ardent patriots, not only wished, but earnestly set to work, to prevent Lincoln's renomination. [7]
It's a bad sign when two people must have some third person about to insulate their self-consciousness and prevent those fatal moments when they have to be just their own selves, and have it out. [11]
If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? [7]
On the eastern shore, meanwhile, the men charged to kill the Arabs' horses were doing their work, so as to prevent any who might escape from returning to Fostat, or riding forward to Doormat and reporting what had occurred. [10]
To prevent so shocking an accident, it was pulled down many years since. [6]
To prevent this she must submit to part from her son or her daughter, and to take the veil. [10]
She felt, as she listened, the pressure of his sincerity and force, and had to strive to prevent her thoughts from becoming confused. [9]
Why could not she have done something to prevent it? [6]
No foolish passion shall prevent the convalescent youth from following his father upward along the pathway of fame. [10]
Nothing but death shall prevent me. [5]
But could the senate make the Nile rise, or stay the pestilence, or prevent the dates dropping from the palm-trees? [10]
Their not being seen did not, however, prevent the growth of the belief in their existence. [4]
They store up seeds, of which they prevent the germination, and which, if damp, are brought up to the surface to dry. [1]
Perhaps her mother saw this, and saw also that there was nothing in the Friends' society to prevent her from growing more and more opinionated. [5]

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