"Avert" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... responsibility upon her antagonists. "If you will have it," she seemed to say, "you must take the consequences." And old Jervaise, at all events, foresaw what was coming, and at that eleventh hour made one last effort to avert it. ...
— The Jervaise Comedy • J. D. Beresford
... anything more about it," Sommers answered, closing his lips firmly. "It is part of the mire; we must avert our eyes, Alves." ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... He is the first oculist in England. He told me that my sight was in a precarious state, and that if matters turned out unfavorably it is possible, nay probable, that I may become quite blind. On the other hand, he gives me a prescription which he thinks and hopes will avert the danger." ...
— Polly - A New-Fashioned Girl • L. T. Meade
... any other man, still less that it had become club-talk in London. He saw at once what evil construction might be put upon it by malicious gossip-mongers, and he knew that henceforth he was face to face with a danger which he could do little or nothing to avert. ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... staircase, who disperse in all directions, with a great rustling of skirts, except Mrs Perch, who, being (but that she always is) in an interesting situation, is not nimble, and is obliged to face him, and is ready to sink with confusion as she curtesys;—may Heaven avert all evil consequences from the house of Perch! Mr Dombey walks up to the drawing-room, to bide his time. Gorgeous are Mr Dombey's new blue coat, fawn-coloured pantaloons, and lilac waistcoat; and a whisper goes about the house, that Mr Dombey's ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
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