Both Uses of
avert
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- In a few minutes, some mortar and dust came dropping down, which he averted his face to avoid; and in it, and in the old wood-ashes, and in a crevice in the chimney into which his weapon had slipped or wrought itself, he groped with a cautious touch.†
Chpt 2.21 *
- Her hope had been to avert the wrath of Heaven from a House that had long been hateful to the suffering many.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
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(avert as in: avert her eyes) turn away or aside -- often to turn your eyes away from something