The fingers of one hand clutched her throat, while the other warded off her blows.
The cuff around her arm warded them off, and they flowed around her instead of through her.
The subsequent experiments of Snellen, Senftleben, and, more lately, of Turner, seem to show that if the eyeball be protected from the impingement of foreign particles, an accident to which it is liable owing to its state of anaesthesia, the ulceration may be warded off indefinitely.
Cesare Borgia, who had seized many cities in Romagna, suddenly demanded the reinstatement of the Medici in Florence, and the danger was only warded off by appointing him captain-general of the Florentine forces at a large salary (1501).
Huguenots and Dutch were aided just enough to keep them going in the struggles which warded danger off from England's shores.
