What is my time-limit, avoiding all strain and worry?'
Avoiding the obstructions gave it the sinuous movement of a serpent.
And I should be avoiding my clear-cut duty if I did not take this task in hand myself.
I shall explain the whole of Hope's case to Mr Walcot, avoiding, if possible, all exposure of you--."
I got into the open park, avoiding the trees, and wandered on and on, without thinking where I was going.
"You must understand," began Howard abruptly, avoiding Graham's eyes, "that our social order is very complex.
Instead of operating on their own account they are reduced to mere servants of attaining pleasure and avoiding pain.
In themselves events are perfectly mechanical, steady, and fluid, not stopping where we see a goal nor avoiding what we call failures.
If a dog be uncleanly in the house, he should decidedly be broken of it, although it would be useless to correct him unless he has a fair opportunity of avoiding it.
The understanding of which she had half-seriously spoken must never come, and the only means of avoiding it was to-night's silence, the silence of all the days to follow.