Prevented

Examples

• And this was what prevented him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Rivers and pipes have their metres, so that now the velocity and volume of rivers and streams are measured and controlled, and floods prevented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Cassy's air and manner, address, and evident command of money, prevented any rising disposition to suspicion in the hotel. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Thus, as Mr. Chesterton suggests, no determinist is prevented from saying if you please to the housemaid. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I had dreaded this from the firSt. I would have prevented it, if she had allowed me the smallest chance of doing so. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I not only prevented him getting off the marshes, but I dragged him here,--dragged him this far on his way back. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• One of the best-known cells in which weakening of the current is prevented by chemical means is the so-called gravity cell. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But Fate intervened enviously and prevented her from receiving the reward due to such immaculate love and virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The gray came in just after, and thereby prevented any ill treatment which the others might have given me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Though, mind,' added Mr. Pickwick, hastily checking himself--'mind, I do not say I should have prevented it, if I had known that it was intended. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And now she was very conscious that she ought to have prevented them. Jane Austen. Emma.
• My troubled mind had prevented me from noticing it before. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You have saved an innocent man's life, and you have prevented a very grave scandal, which would have ruined my reputation in the Force. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The lack of such a place never prevented experimentation, however, as long as he had a dollar in his pocket and some available hole in the wall. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was often hoping, intending to comebut was always prevented. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I will not be prevented, however, from making my own communication. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• A new company was proposed, and prevented only by admitting a number of new partners. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And she lifted it, though he would have prevented her, and put it to her lips. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• She might have prevented the indulgence and increase of such sentiments. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But it was a merciful Providence which prevented him from foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them in the grim depths of that gloomy wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Could a repetition of it be prevented? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• She was thinking in her heart, It was George Osborne who prevented my marriage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• To think that it should come to this, when I might have known it and perhaps prevented it, if I hadn't been a thoughtless fool! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Dr. Franklin's increasing infirmities prevented his regular attendance at the council chamber, and in 1788 he retired wholly from public life. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He retreated into the corner, step by step; but do what he would, the interposition of his own person, prevented its being opened to its utmost width. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And as my extreme weakness prevented me from getting up and going to him, I lay there, penitently whispering, O God bless him! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Thus, the paper passed between the drum and the two small wheels, and, as dry paper is a non-conductor, current was prevented from passing until a perforation was reached. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His foreign birth, and he refused to throw off his allegiance to his native country, alone prevented him from filling the first offices in the state. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That this exportation could only be prevented by a proper attention to what they called the balance of trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The difficulty of making a way through the dense forests prevented Burnside from getting up in time to be of any service on the forenoon of the sixth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Typist: Norton