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• She kept her face half averted, her eyes refusing to meet Grace's Very well." —  Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
• By this arrangement an awkward silence is averted, and it certainly seems as if the chief argument in favor of "introducing people" is met; since, with "the roof" as their transient introduction, they are perfectly at ease without personal introductions. —  Etiquette
• Hereupon quoth Hildebrand: "Stand between the sundered limbs with your body bowed and your head averted, and the monster will be overcome". —  Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
• Had this been done twenty-four hours earlier the calamity which occurred at Ridgeway and the disaster at Fort Erie might have been averted, and the whole campaign had a different termination. —  Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870
• {144 Sepulchral Paean of short Strophe and Antistrophe_: for these libations' sake may the curse be averted--yet who strong enough to come as Averter: while Electra is pouring the libations on the tomb_. —  Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy

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