It is the moment of all moments, the most trying to the soldier, when he is expecting every instant a hurricane of bullets, and yet sees no one to avenge his anguish on or forestall in the deadly work.

To her great relief, when the balance between life and death had decidedly turned, the inquiries became less frequent, and could often be forestalled by sending messengers to Oakwood.

Her own meager income, derived from the dead Shulski, was always forestalled for the wants of the familythe little brother whom she had promised her dead and adored mother never to desert.

He thought that he had the lovely Övid Cloister parkwhich was as large as a forestall to himself; and he wasn't anxious to go back to the stuffy cabin and the little patch of ground there at home.