forestalled

• Howbeit, forasmuch as some of our adversaries have said that the Bishop is already forestalled, and will not give us such audience as we look for; therefore I am humbly to beseech your Honour, that you will desire the Bishop, by your letters, to let us have justice; though it be with rigour, so it be justice: our cause is so good, that I am sure we shall prevail by it. —  Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, etc., Volume Two
• "The big part of what that proved to us is we scared the hell out of them and all of a sudden proved we don't have to rely on them for our telecom future." rounds up municipal networks nationwide, focusing on the consumer rights that various legislation appears to have forestalled, according to consumer advocates. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
• It has been forestalled, and has become an irritation. —  My Contemporaries In Fiction
• At every turn it found itself forestalled, and shall so find itself, he tells her, to all eternity I knew you once; but in Paradise If we meet, I will pass nor turn my face No: this with me is not a favourite poem. —  Browning's Heroines
• "If Rhoda has no occasion for her, let Phoebe wait on you The second request which had been on Gatty's lips being thus forestalled, the girls set forth--without consulting Rhoda, which Gatty was disinclined to do, and which Phoebe fancied that she had done--and reached the Maidens' Lodge without falling in with any disturbing element, such as either Rhoda or Molly would unquestionably have been. —  The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)

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