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Her pitiless honesty of nature was just as inexorable in its dealing with her own soul as with others; she never paltered with, nor evaded an accusation of, her consciousness. At this moment, she was indignantly admitting to herself that her conduct and her feeling towards Stephen were both deserving of condemnation.
He evaded my proffered friendship with a blunt proposal to rejoin the mess; and yet a moment later, contrived to alleviate the snub. For, as we entered the smoking-room, he laid his hand on my shoulder with a kind familiarity. "I have just prescribed for Mr. Dodd," says he, "a glass of our Madeira." I have never again met Dr.
Accordingly, Newton perceived that if he could construct a telescope the action of which depended upon reflection, instead of upon refraction, the difficulty which had hitherto proved an insuperable obstacle to the improvement of the instrument would be evaded.
This seems the minimum of protection due the contracting parties themselves, as well as due the next generation. Marriage restrictions are easily evaded, however; unscrupulous physicians can usually be found to sign certificates. And where marriage is prohibited, illegitimacy is sure to flourish.
It was nothing so gross as that. One does not speak of the flavor of a rare wine; one calls attention to its bouquet. A subtle, teasing, elusive something that just tickles the senses instead of punching them in the ribs. So his speech was permeated with a will-o'-the-wisp, a tingling richness that evaded definition. You will have to imagine it. There shall be no vain attempt to set it down.
Now, as the problem is to account for the evolution of the highest conception of God, as far as that conception exists among the most backward races, the problem can never be solved while that highest conception of God is practically ignored. Thus, anthropologists, as a rule, in place of facing and solving their problem, have merely evaded it doubtless unwittingly.
They had small place in his concerns as an official of police. His sole ambition just now was to fix the crime definitely on the perpetrator. "You'll swear he killed him?" he asked, briskly, well content with this concrete result of the entanglement. Mary subtly evaded the question, while seeming to give unqualified assent. "Why not?" she responded listlessly.
The notorious criminal proved an alibi, and after being a nine days' wonder the great diamond robbery and murder case was supplanted in the public mind by an even more sensational crime. Nickie in his terror of being associated with the murder had been careful, up to now, to betray no interest. He had evaded conversation about it, and only occasional papers had come into his hands at the show.
In the excitement of the past hours she had forgotten to buckle it on. She was unarmed. H'yemba already grasped for her, to force her down upon the floor, kneeling to him to make her call him master. Already his strong and hairy fingers had all but seized her robe. But she, lithe and agile, evaded the grip. To the fire she sprang. She caught up a flaming stick that lay upon the hearth.
Her questioning, analysing, unwearying brain ignored the closure, and evaded poor Lady Isabel's evasions. Her religious life had been singularly vivacious, and the scope and variety of the petitions that she nightly offered caused considerable embarrassment to her mother.
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