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He who would travel on foot through the pass of that defile, of which we see but the picturesque summits, stops his nose, averts his eyes, guards his pockets, and hurries along through the squalor of the grim London lazzaroni. But seen above, what a noble break in the sky-line! It would be sacrilege to exchange that fine gorge for a dead flat of dull rooftops.
The Protagorean dictum that Man is the measure of all things assures him that his knowledge may become adequate to his reality, and that the value of truths and the differences between truth and error also are susceptible of estimation. True, this policy averts the bankruptcy of the intellect by scaling down the intolerable charges on it.
He remedies unfavourable accidents, cures petty ailments, contrives unexpected gifts of medicine, money, or the like, he averts bankruptcies, arranges profitable transactions, and does a thousand such services for his little clique of faithful people. The pious are represented as being constantly delighted by these little surprises, these bouquets and chocolate boxes from the divinity.
When the internal feels it is being subjected to compulsion, therefore, it withdraws as it were into itself, averts itself, and regards the compulsion as its enemy. For the love which makes man's life is irritated and causes him to think that he is then not himself and has no life of his own.
"It is well, minstrel," she called aloud. "She whom you await bid me greet you with a sign." At Kai Lung's feet there fell a crimson flower, growing on a thorny stem. "What word shall I in turn bear back? Speak freely, for her mind is as my open hand." "Tell me rather," said Kai Lung, looking out, "how she fares and what averts her footsteps?" "That will appear in due time," replied the aged one.
She turns her face away from his, and in doing so meets Portia's eyes. She has evidently been listening to what Dulce has just said, and now gives back her cousin's gaze as though against her will. After a moment she slowly averts her face, as if seeking to hide the pallor that is rendering even her lips white. "Both my evening suits are unwearable," says Dicky Browne, mournfully.
Melchisedech, a Jew, by a story of three rings averts a great danger with which he was menaced by Saladin. When Neifile had brought her story to a close amid the commendations of all the company, Filomena, at the queen's behest, thus began:
This ceremony is repeated four or five times, and averts the imminent danger of death.
Till then she would hope for the best. When Miss Wimple reached her humble little nest, she knelt beside her bed and prayed, tearfully, to the God who averts danger and forgives sin; but she did not sleep all night. In the morning a gossiping neighbor came with the news; "that little cooped-up Wimple never hears anything," she thought. Miss Madeline Splurge had disappeared. Mr.
If Tou Tou were here, she would overwhelm me with officious questions would stare me crazy, but Barbara averts her eyes, and asks nothing. We have been sitting in perfect silence for a long while; no noise but the click of Barbara's knitting-pins, the low flutter of the fire-flame, and the sort of suppressed choked inward bark, with which Vick attacks a phantom tomcat in her dreams.
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