Both Uses of
forestall
in
The Mill on the Floss
- If I were you, I think I would enter on the subject with Stelling at once: there's no necessity for sending the boy before Midsummer, but I would be on the safe side, and make sure that nobody forestalls you."†
Chpt 1.3
- But forestalling his answer, she said,— "I suppose it's all astronomers; because, you know, they live up in high towers, and if the women came there they might talk and hinder them from looking at the stars."†
Chpt 2.1 *
Definition:
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(forestall) to prevent something by taking action