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- I saw Doltaire with Juste Duvarney spring swiftly to the side of Alixe, and, with her father, put her and Mademoiselle Lotbiniere into the pulpit, forming a ring round it, and preventing the crowd from trampling on them, as, suddenly gone mad, they swarmed past. [11]
- The storm subsided toward daybreak, and I dozed gradually to sleep with a sense of obligation to Lem Hackett for going to eternal suffering in that abrupt way, and thus preventing a far more dreadful disaster--my own loss. [5]
- I know how to value his noble gifts, and I am his friend, but I am also his master, and I will find means of preventing my son from introducing the light conduct of the capital beneath his father's roof. [10]
- He thought that the only effective way of preserving and protecting public rights was for each citizen to do his share in preventing or punishing such infringements of them as came under his personal notice. [5]
- He had avoided the marriage so long as he might, in hope of preventing it until the Duke should die, but with the irony of fate the expected death had come two hours after the ceremony. [11]
- He could not see what motive of advantage to the new States could be subserved by merely keeping the public lands out of market, and preventing their settlement. [7]
- He took it out, and although he took out the other provision preventing a submission to a vote of the people, I ask, Why did you first put it in? [7]
- The very convention of making light of bravery and danger, which has its value, was in their case an evil, preventing them from facing the inner meaning of it all. [11]
- I have already mentioned the motives attributed by the Perkinists to the Medical Profession, as preventing its members from receiving the new but unwelcome truths. [3]
- He became conscious, however, that Dyck had a particular stroke in mind, which he himself was preventing by masterful methods. [11]
- Instead of waking him, she had misused her new power over her brother, and, by preventing his speaking, had perhaps frustrated the rescue of her people. [10]
- The windows were high in the wall, thus preventing any intrusion from the clothes-yard on which they looked. [9]
- Something closed in her throat, preventing her immediate reply. [9]
- The doctor who had been standing beside him, preventing Prince Andrew from seeing his face, moved away. [2]
- She had been energetic, helping great charities, aiding in philanthropic enterprises, with more than a little shrewdness preventing him from being robbed right and left by adventurers of all descriptions; and yet--and yet it was all so general, so soulless, her activity in good causes. [11]
- He had a double motive in preventing this new succession. [11]
- But they soon curled, as if what she heard aroused her disgust, for the speaker now turned to Dion and accused him of preventing the kindly disposed Regent from increasing the renown of the great Queen and affording her noble heart a pleasure. [10]
- Now if we could only succeed in preventing Hadrian observing the heavens merely during the third hour after midnight we should preserve him from trouble and anxiety, which will torment and spoil his life. [10]
- While no punishment could be too sudden or too severe for those murderers, I am well satisfied that the preventing of the threatened remedial raid into Missouri was the only way to avoid an indiscriminate massacre there, including probably more innocent than guilty. [7]
- As I ran by the side of the excitable fishers, I urged upon one or two of them the wisdom and duty of preventing a conflict. [11]
- Third--To blow my brains out the moment I had signed, thereby preventing me from making any subsequent explanation such as could remove the infamy. [5]
- If there was a rule preventing their amending it at the time, they could pass that, and then, Chase's amendment being merged, put it in the shape they wanted. [7]
- In 1876 or '75 I wrote 40,000 words of a story called "Simon Wheeler" wherein the nub was the preventing of an execution through testimony furnished by mental telegraph from the other side of the globe. [5]
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