But for any chance, even the faintest, of averting the calamity impending over New Moon, Emily would have faced the entire Sacred College.
'I hope so,' said Anna, averting her eyes, 'I am trying.
"No, I'm not hungry," he answered, averting his head, and speaking rather contemptuously, as if he guessed I was trying to divine the occasion of his good humour.
" Mr Deane, who had heard from his wife what had passed the day before, thought Tom was come to appeal to him for some means of averting the sale.
At six o'clock he had already been long dressed, and had spent some of his wretchedness in prayer, pleading his motives for averting the worst evil if in anything he had used falsity and spoken what was not true before God.
, and thus averting what must, humanly speaking, have been a terrible accident.
No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes .
No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes .
He would stare into their fucking eyeballs, ask some question, and would want a response without the other person averting their eyes.
But for now, they must balance their mission to increase trading volumes with averting a socially destabilising crash, he says.
We become so accustomed to slouching, averting our eyes, or folding our arms that we barely even notice what we're doing.
My driver, a chain-smoking, sweaty little man who introduced himself as Gholam, drove nonchalantly and recklessly, averting collisions by the thinnest of margins, all without so much as a pause in the incessant stream of words spewing from his mouth: terrible what is happening in your country, yar.
No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes .
