Even married people, I believe, Jack, prevent abundance of quarrels, by seeing one another but seldom.

NOTE XI.To prevent ambiguity or obscurity, the relative should, in general, be placed as near as possible to the antecedent.

How far the fear of detection and punishment prevents crime is, of course, purely theoretical and cannot be settled either by statistics or logic.

The stinging cells of the anemone prevent fishes from attacking the hermit, and that is the reason of his care for the parasite.

Yet leave us, lord, and seek some safer shed, Where, more secure, thou may'st prevent mishaps; For great pursuits and troubles thee await.

Having disorganised the Russian military machine, Germany sent her agents to continue the disorder and prevent recovery.

The imperturbable Valentine, with one preventing arm laid across the breast of the expected victim and an open hand held restrainingly up for truce, stood between the two men and said: "Professor Frowenfeldone moment" Frowenfeld's face was ashen.

With his extraction, and his glorious mind, Make the proud sails swell more than with the wind; 20 Preventing cannon, make his louder fame Check the Batavians, and their fury tame.

A poultice thus made, will act as a local tepid bath to the inflamed part; and the oiled silk preventing evaporation, it will be found, when taken off, as moist as the first moment that it was put on.

A great preventing lump was in her throat, an obstacle that precluded speech.

Preventing means, or used to mean, when words had a meaning, getting beforehand with anything.

In our late fight, when cannons did diffuse, Preventing posts, the terror and the news, Our neighbour princes trembled at their roar; But our conjunction makes them tremble more.