There will probably be some roughs on board, who will be certain to get up a row, in which case you can make the babies in arms very effective as "buffers" for warding off blows, while the crowd will save you from being knocked down.

The woman stood alone, en silhouette against the glow of the companionway, her arms thrust out as if to ward off some threatened danger.

So I shall prescribe Rudolph's company for myself, to ward off an attack of moral indigestion.

And the scared sleepers, rushing forth in fear, Met death without the portals from dim foes, Or e'er the warrior could grasp his spear, Or fit the arrow to his unstrung bow, Or ward the fatal stroke that laid him low.

And the mist of cold fire stayed their way, so that we had knowledge that there fought for the souls of them, one of those sweet Powers of Goodness, which we had belief did strive to ward our spirits at all times from those Forces of Evil and Destruction.

Most evils serve to secure us a much greater good, or to ward off a still greater evil.

They warded off the darts discharged from the ballisters against them, by the assistance of turning wheels, which either broke them to pieces or carried them another way.

If this is accomplished, life is a burden, and then there comes the second task of doing something with that which has been wonof warding off boredom, which, like a bird of prey, hovers over us, ready to fall wherever it sees a life secure from need.

Perhaps they will ward off the powers of evil, and let him grow up to shoulder the burden of the great Caïds of the south.

While on the home-service, he does not yet exercise enough to harden him or to ward off disease.

But fearing that Madame or the Signor might come to Savannah in search of tidings, and that some unlucky accident might bring them to speech of his bride, he concluded it was best to ward off such a contingency.

Still, if the right point is only approximately reached, it will be enough to ward off destruction.

This would be a very far advance in human observation; but the Polynesian, by experience, or knowledge brought from his old Asiatic home, must have held such a theory, and sought in the system of adoption, and in not bringing up consanguineous children together, to ward off such misfortune.

Louise insisted upon warding off her enmity, or at least establishing a truce, and Beth, however suspicious and ungracious, could find no way of rejecting the overtures.

"A peaceful spot of earth," I thought, as I went into the hedged inclosure, and shut myself in with the gleaming marble, and the low-hanging evergreens that waved their green arms to ward ill away from those they had grown up among.

It was a sore business for my mother, who had the task of warding off prying eyes from our ragged household and keeping the fugitive in life.

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I wish to ward off this suffering from you!"

By this means he avoids reproach, since he has made it so evident, that the poor man's time was come, and that nothing could ward off the shafts of destiny.

A partial warm bath, such as the foot-bath, is of much service in warding off many complaints.

I understand moreover the urgent necessity of establishing in each town a solid and robust organization, the strongest bulwark of public security and the sole means of securing that union and discipline which are indispensable for the establishment of the Republic, that is Government of the people for the people, and warding off the international conflicts which may arise.

The directions, she intimated, went completely and precisely to the point, obviating all difficulties in the way of coming at the treasure, and even, if I remember right, were so contrived as to ward off any troublesome consequences likely to ensue from the interference of the parish-officers.

He wards off their strokes with enormous brattices of wood, wing-walls of logs bolted together, and such other contraptions as experience teaches.

His breastplate first, that was of substance pure, Before his noble heart he firmely bound, That mought his life from yron death assure, And ward his gentle corpes from cruell wound: 60 For it by arte was framed to endure The bit* of balefull steele and bitter stownd**, No lesse than that which Vulcane made to sheild Achilles life from fate of Troyan field.

Although nature, indeed, has appointed death for all men: but valour is accustomed to ward off any cruelty or disgrace in death.