All 6 Uses of
evade
in
Middlemarch
- "Dorothea is learning to read the characters simply," said Mr. Casaubon, evading the question.†
Chpt 1
- But Dagley, only the more inclined to "have his say" with a gentleman who walked away from him, followed at once, with Fag slouching at his heels and sullenly evading some small and probably charitable advances on the part of Monk.†
Chpt 4
- "It was Bowyer who did it," said Mr. Standish, evasively.†
Chpt 5
- And since its appearance near London, we may well besiege the Mercy-seat for our protection," said Mr. Bulstrode, not intending to evade Lydgate's allusion, but really preoccupied with alarms about himself.†
Chpt 7
- "Some little nervous shock," said Lydgate, evasively.†
Chpt 8 *
- I have been shutting myself up and resting," said Will, feeling himself a sneak, but seeing no alternative to this evasion.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(evade as in: evade the enemy) physically avoid or get away from; or: said of something that is hard to obtain