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  • He had spent the morning in the up-stairs library, at the unevadable suggestion of Colonel Graeme, while the colonel and his Roman collogued below.

    Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • He went on to say, if we can trust Boettiger, that it is 'precisely in this closing of the mouth at critical moments, when a saving word might rend the iron net of fate, that the unevadable and demonic power of evil-brooding destiny manifests itself most clearly and sends a gruesome shudder of awe through every spectator.'

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

  • He went on to say, if we can trust Böttiger, that it is 'precisely in this closing of the mouth at critical moments, when a saving word might rend the iron net of fate, that the unevadable and demonic power of evil-brooding destiny manifests itself most clearly and sends a gruesome shudder of awe through every spectator.'

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

  • Aunt Hominy took her place in the kitchen, and cooked with all her former art, but her voice and understanding were gone, and she never would go past the Entailed Hat, and still regarded it, as nearly as could be made out, as the cause of all her errors and dangers, though she seemed to admit its unevadable dominion.

    The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • Suppose they both went to Shott Woods idly; suppose -- which was not the case -- they had never heard of one another before, is it not possible that they were brought together by a law as unevadable as gravity?

    Catharine Furze Mark Rutherford 1872

  • And the bankruptcy of a government-owned manufacturer, the event that will bring an unevadable public challenge to progressive economic ideas of more government and more spending being solutions to everything, continues to draw closer and closer …

    Anchor Rising 2009

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