53 collocations for staves

"They have stove the boat with cold shot, and the men are in the water.

The responsibility of rejecting a conference, which, by staving off the evil day, might have preserved the peace of Europe, falls solely on the shoulders of Germany.

All the same, the satirical rhyme, which an old chronicler put into the mouths of many a despairing patient, in later days, may have been true also of "Old Honesty" and his nostrums: "There's not a herb nor a root Nor any remedy to boot Which can stave death off by a foot!"

"That last five hundred you gave me will stave off ruin for a week or so.

The cowpunchers, hearing that volleying of hoofbeats, went to spur and quirt to stave off the inevitable, but at five furlongs Lady Mary left her sisters and streaked around the tiring range horses into the lead.

Mahomet was content that he had staved off immediate attack, and set to work to complete his defences and strengthen his fighting force, when grave news reached him from the immediate environs of the city.

But the excitement of climbing up and down the social ladder did not stave off our craving for art; and there came about this time a very decisive event in our lives.

The Turkish forces were disorganised by heavy and repeated defeats, the men demoralised and not in good condition, and there was no hope for them that they could receive sufficient reinforcements to enable them to stave off the ultimate capture of Bethlehem and Jerusalem, though as events proved they could still put up a stout defence.

You think, then, that there is a chance of staving it offby cleansing, I mean?"

All we can do now is to watch him, soothe him, and by all means stave off this confession until he is stronger.

The desire to live increased, and when I felt the numbness creep from my limbs into my body, I crawled alongside Peoria Red and snuggled closely against him, hoping that our mutual body warmth would stave off the crisis to the last possible moment.

Like many other Communist generals he took the most stringent measures for concealing the truth from his soldiers, and thus staved off total demoralisation until the Versailles troops were in the heart of Paris.

We've got to stave these devils off for two or three weeks, at least, and we'll have to look sharp.

Incapable of effectively dealing with the problem, the government temporized and resolved to stave off the difficulty.

My brain worked in a flashthere was but once chance to stave off discovery.

He managed to hold the empire together in spite of these troubles, and to stave off the doom that impended all through his reign of thirty-seven years (1048-1118).

He was called the savior of his country; and he succeeded in staving off for a time the fall of his country's liberties.

Provisions were brought from the village of Careca to the people left behind at Darien, for the first consideration was to stave off the famine that was imminent.

the wicked fox! was all the cry; Out from his house ran every neighbour nigh: The vicar first, and after him the crew, With forks and staves the felon to pursue.

And when he heard all the lad had to tellthat he was the only child of an old family, and that his mother was in failing healthhe threw off the rope as I throw off this, and he kissed him on either cheek, as I kiss you, and he bade him go, as I bid you go, and may every kind wish of that noble general, though it could not stave off the fever which slew my son, descend now upon your head.

Yet Italy was only temporarily delivered, for Stilicho,the hero of Pollentia,with the collected forces of the whole western Empire, might still have defied the armies of the Goths and staved off the ruin another generation, had not imperial jealousy and the voice of envy removed him from command.

] STAVE ONE MARLEY'S GHOST Marley was dead, to begin with.

His dinner is his other work, for he sweats at it as much as at his labour; he is a terrible fastener on a piece of beef, and you may hope to stave the guard off sooner.

She did not name an immediate day, because it would be well, she thought, to stave off the evil hour.

" Her manner was indeed strange and flighty; and though she recurred to questions about the Ordination and the Bowaters, Julius perceived that she was forcing her attention to the answers as if trying to stave off his inquiries, and he came to closer quarters.

53 collocations for  staves