...There are few cases throughout Grecian history in which an ablediscourse has been the means of averting so much evil, as was averted bythis speech of Xenophon to the army in Byzantium...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...Its perilousperegrinations demand agility of movement, long-sighted eyes andmasterly balancing-appliances; it has, in fact, a slender shape,ocelli, legs and special organs adapted to averting a fall...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...These charms may be stones, small pieces of different sorts of bark, flowers, orvarious kinds of poisons, though the poisons appear to be only used for averting illness and death...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...They "are neverpermitted to walk on the ice of rivers or lakes, or near the partwhere the men are hunting beaver, or where a fishing-net is set,for fear of averting their success...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
... Human sacrifices were extremely common in Polynesia; and, in Tonga, the "devotion" of a child by strangling was a favourite method of averting the wrath of the gods...
Thomas Henry Huxley 「The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study」
...It is not improbable, that Wilson invented these circumstances in the hope of obtaining some attention, and thereby averting the punishment which he expected, and well knew that he had long deserved...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2」
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