Happily, that danger was averted.

The anger of Theodosius knew no bounds, but was fortunately averted by the entreaties of the bishop, and the emperor abstained from inflicting on the guilty city the punishment he afterwards sent upon Thessalonica for a less crime.

In their despair, and not venturing to tell their master what they had done, they swore on Henry's part an unreserved submission to the Pope, and the excommunication was barely averted for a few months, while a legation was sent to pronounce an interdiction on his lands, and receive his submission.

"I mean," said Hardy, leaning forward and speaking with a vehemence which made the girl instinctively avert her head"I mean that to please you would be the greatest happiness I could know.

But Victor was well able to guess what resentment glimmered in the eyes so studiously averted; and his cold, sardonic smile more than once commented, unknown to Sturm, upon the accuracy with which he read the mean workings of his "secretary's" mind.

All the excitement that could be obtained from incest, threatened, narrowly averted, or actually committed, was offered to eager readers.

She sat silent with her head resolutely averted, but Edward took comfort in the fact that she had forgotten to withdraw her hand.

Of Byron's two contemporary rivals, Wordsworth had no feverish blood; nothing drove him to the world without; consequently his "eyes avert their ken from half of human fate," and his influence, though perennial, will always be limited.

Fear of starvation being momentarily averted, the Soeur used to light fresh candles around the tiny Holy Bébé on the still green Christmas-tree, and for a space we sat quietly enjoying the radiance.

From this day onward he averted his eyes from the irreparable present of the war and its dead, and looked towards the living, and the future which is in our hands.

Rodolph had not seen the friend whose timely aid had partially averted the deadly blow that had been aimed at him by the savage.

"A great calamity, sira great calamity," he hurriedly and confusedly answered, his face still persistently averted from me"has happened!

Then the man fell back, and Sir George, purposely averting his gaze and walking like a man heavy in thought, went by her; he passed through the little crowd about the coach, and was on the point of disappearing through the entrance, when she hurried after him and called his name.

If he is to follow out any one of the thousand branches of chemical research dealing with coal-tar products, for example, he knows his fate at fourteen or fifteen, and his eye is rarely averted from his goal until he has achieved knowledge and experience likely to help him in the great German trade success which has followed their utilisation of applied science.

" "It must be so, I suppose," assented Mr. Mortimer, but after a pause, and reluctantly, averting his eyes from the accursed thing.

Shudderingly averting his gaze, he quickened his pace, and soon reached a small farmhouse on the summit of the hill rising from Kensal Green.

Silently, his head averted, he ignored their existence, as Plotinus or Sophocles might that of a modern reviewer.

I then set out to get back to the ship, muttering: 'You can have Turkey, if you like, and I will keep the rest of the world.' I rowed sea-ward, my face toward her, but steadily averted, for I would not look her way to see what she was doing.

As he chatted with the daughter of the house, he cast a quick, covert glance at me, and then darted a meaning look at hera look of renewed confidence, as though he felt that he had successfully averted any suspicions I might have held.

He had very swiftly averted his own gaze from her, but she had seen something in his face which she did not understand, over which she had pondered ever since without coming to any solution of this terrible riddle.

I averted my gaze tactfully, but I could hear him kicking chairs and things.

In 1452 he marched upon London, demanding the removal of the Duke of Somerset, Henry's chief minister, but a conflict was temporarily averted.

"It is best to shun the semblance and the food of love, to abstain from it, and totally avert the mind from the object.

His love for her seemed changed to hate, and she tremblingly averted her gaze.

Sometimes to the peak of a gable are fastened crosses, tiny flags, or the skulls of animalsprobably to avert the Evil Eye or bring good luck.