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  • My head was turned away in the image, with one hand held high to try and deflect the coming blow, but the man's face was in full view.†   (source)
  • He deflects all their questions.†   (source)
  • Luke deflected it easily, but I saw a change in his face.†   (source)
  • He learned to be careful when shooting from a foxhole, lest he hit a tree and wound himself with deflected shrapnel.†   (source)
  • The rest of the class was very eager to leave; Moody had given them such a rigorous test of hex-deflection that many of them were nursing small injuries.†   (source)
  • "Vogel," Lewis continued, "how far can we deflect in thirty-nine minutes with the ion engines?"†   (source)
  • A blur of white motion deflected the shaft down into the grass as the bear lunged.†   (source)
  • The sea rose up from behind the fog and welled underneath the Susan Marie so that the coffee cup on the cabin table fell to the floor, and the angle of deflection high up the mast was enough to jar loose the astonished man who hung there not grasping the nature of what was happening, and still he did not foresee his death.†   (source)
  • I punched shots away; I deflected shots over the goalpost; I came out and slid into them before they could get shots off.†   (source)
  • It was the plausibility of such a plan, the perfect way such a plan could deflect the neighbors' knowledge of you.†   (source)
  • Thomas ducked toward the floor and reached up with his hands to deflect the blow.†   (source)
  • Her arms ached as they were shaken from their slumber, but she continued to deflect and parry.†   (source)
  • I try to deflect the mood by turning around and asking Karen if she has a sack we can use for our things.†   (source)
  • He checked the next blow, spun away from the second, deflected the third.†   (source)
  • "Do you enjoy it?" he asks, deflecting.†   (source)
  • Zaphod Beeblebrox would not be needing his set speech and he gently deflected the one being offered him by the spider.†   (source)
  • The blast waves are like sound waves—they bounce and deflect.†   (source)
  • I don't tell her how I split the dead tree's trunk straight down the middle through telekinesis, or how Henri threw knives at me that I deflected into a sandbag fifty feet away.†   (source)
  • He can't resist deflecting any sincerity with a quick line of movie dialogue.†   (source)
  • Hatter deflected them into crystal byways by spinning his top-hat blades so quickly that the force of their wind sent the orbs reeling.†   (source)
  • Just as he was about to crumple to his knees, the Asian woman stepped closer and deflected his attention.†   (source)
  • The arrestor rods glowed, hissed, and deflected arc after arc of blue-white death over and around our small campsite.†   (source)
  • Lynn launches a plastic cup at him, which he deflects.†   (source)
  • Mysteries, like irony, make great use of deflection.†   (source)
  • Besides, I assume he'd cleverly deflect the subject, same as he did when I suggested it would make more sense for him to live indoors.†   (source)
  • I leaned forward in mine, trying to become a wall between Lena and Emily's minions like I could physically deflect their comments.†   (source)
  • Geyer would have agreed, except that his own search had revealed again and again Holmes's talent for deflecting scrutiny.†   (source)
  • The orange vendor deflects this nonsense with a yawn.†   (source)
  • She studied me, her face contorted, her head turning as if she wouldn't give me her direct glance, as if she must deflect an overpowering feeling of revulsion.†   (source)
  • It means you can see bad things coming and deflect them.†   (source)
  • He shrugged and shook his head, refusing to be deflected.†   (source)
  • Qendrim dove headfirst, arms at his sides, like a spear, and executed a perfect header, deflecting the ball and freezing the goalie—another score.†   (source)
  • His first and second stabs were deflected by an upraised arm, then Roran caught the soldier on the hip, and when he stumbled, in his throat.†   (source)
  • But he could feel the demanding race consciousness within him, his own terrible purpose, and he knew that no small thing could deflect the juggernaut.†   (source)
  • The bullet had made a shallow penetration and deflected away.†   (source)
  • With no deflecting wind, it was .†   (source)
  • At the reception Janice was impressed by Adam's poise when he graciously deflected any focus that came his way from relatives and friends aware of his recovery and sobriety.†   (source)
  • Ronnie would not be deflected, not this time.†   (source)
  • Above the door frame to the bedroom, Hema hung a mask of a bearded devil with bloodshot eyes, his tongue sticking out—a further deflection of the evil eye.†   (source)
  • Count Rugen was a bit surprised that his point had been deflected, but there was nothing wrong with piercing a helpless man's shoulder.†   (source)
  • "Mother wore that necklace to her wedding," I said, hoping to deflect her thoughts.†   (source)
  • Wes ran to the gourmet grocery where Delia was owed a favor, and Kristy and I just kept walking through with more appetizers, deflecting all queries about when dinner was being served with a bat of the eyelashes and a smile (her idea, of course).†   (source)
  • I was falling for the deflecting technique again, not that Havoline Oil had anything cloyingly poetical about it.†   (source)
  • The way he focuses on it, deflecting Meredith and Rashmi's conversation, is ...purposeful.†   (source)
  • They stood back to back in some neighborhoods, frantically scanning the rooftops for snipers, deflecting rocks with plastic shields.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they had thrown her out to deflect the avengers.†   (source)
  • Max stared at the table while Miss Boon and Mr. Vincenti answered or deflected questions about grades, room locations, class awards, and school supplies.†   (source)
  • AMONG THE last prisoners to show up in May, before the Camp was "closed" to deflect Martha Stewart to another facility, were three new political prisoners, pacifists like Sister Platte.†   (source)
  • At times she seemed to absorb each word, and at times she seemed to deflect them, as if overwhelmed.†   (source)
  • It then pierces the governor's wrist and deflects off the bones and into his left thigh, where it finally comes to rest.†   (source)
  • I wish I could have had some practice with the sword before using it in a fight, but it's my best bet to deflect the chains.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't understand it until later, but the ADA was flirting with Tess and she, swiftly and with a skill developed from experience, deflected him.†   (source)
  • He had trained us, as children, to deflect the phone-call requests for media interviews that never diminished over the years.†   (source)
  • Despite the ease with which actors knocked aside hurling blades in the movies, deflecting a well-thrown stiletto in real combat wasn't an easy task.†   (source)
  • He flings a saw-toothed dagger at my chest, and I only just deflect it with my scim.†   (source)
  • In a fight he used the elbow of his left arm as a deflector and his "fightin' right" to punch with.†   (source)
  • DeWeese looks at me, seems about to comment on my appearance, which is undoubtedly much different from what he remembers, but something deflects this and he turns to John instead and asks about the trip.†   (source)
  • I continued to bedevil the Law Society and registrar with demands, which they continued to deflect.†   (source)
  • We're deflecting most of the local inquiries with an ersatz story about a massive propane-gas leak, but not too many people are buying it.†   (source)
  • Janza's fist sank into his lower stomach but Jerry had deflected part of the force of the blow.†   (source)
  • There might have been some risk that the sound of the breaking window would be heard and someone might have reacted ....but your house sits at an angle and the sound was deflected by the facade.†   (source)
  • With his left arm he brought his sword up to deflect Alessandro's bayonet, and with his right hand, and a huge grunt, he swung the mace at the center of the rifle, intending to knock it from Alessandro's hands.†   (source)
  • She didn't hold it against them, and he saw how she deflected them, usually with some kindness, some small generosity.†   (source)
  • I had simply deflected what I felt necessary in order to protect my security clearance.†   (source)
  • The method was to refuse to deflect retribution.†   (source)
  • Drizzt bore in, his two scimitars whirling and jabbing, thrusting high and low too quickly for the barbarian king to deflect both.†   (source)
  • He slashed with the seraph blade as they rolled across the floor, and she deflected his blows easily, moving so fast she was a blur.†   (source)
  • There are too many feelings coming off those girls, and I'm not good at deflecting them.†   (source)
  • It hit the finger section of my glove, deflected off, smashed into the upper rim of the left lens of my glasses, glanced off my forehead, and knocked me down.†   (source)
  • I understood that her two rooms, the tiny bathroom adjoining them, and the kitchen and pantry, constituted the sphere of her influence, and she was quick to deflect any interest on my part to look into the cabinets or closets.†   (source)
  • On the ballroom floor she stood out in her animal or shell fish beauty but claws and caterpillar bulges tended to deflect suitors from thoughts of seduction.†   (source)
  • Despite Tom Short's warning, a large part of my trial strategy was to deflect attention away from Angel and to put Reverend Tester on trial.†   (source)
  • Which turned black as night as they attempted to deflect the massed photons.†   (source)
  • Why should they have to deflect the neighbors' questions about him?†   (source)
  • I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector.†   (source)
  • The Bugatti spun upon the corner and was hit by the Bentley, which was deflected into the path of the oncoming Jaguar, which rolled over twice and finished right side up by the roadside without a driver.†   (source)
  • While my fellow students were already establishing themselves in various esoteric specialties, most of which they invented for themselves on the theory that if you are the only specialist in a given field you need fear no competition, I was still unable to deflect my interests from the general to the particular.†   (source)
  • Partly, he managed to deflect it, to absorb some of its force.†   (source)
  • But Nathan was not to be deflected.†   (source)
  • A shot through the windshield was almost certain to miss because of light refraction or bullet deflection.†   (source)
  • During that time a lot of water's flowed under the bridge, and one of the things that have come floating along on it is ....(Reads) "The Church of England, that finest flower of our Island genius for compromise; that system, peculiar to these shores, the despair of foreign observers, which deflects the torrents of religious passion down the canals of moderation.†   (source)
  • Star got a fair hit at hers but it deflected on bone and kept coming and I kicked it in the shoulder as I was still trying to free my blade from its cousin.†   (source)
  • There's no longer the slightest doubt of it; and began to sign herself with the Cross in prayer for the dead, but sharply remembering we do not know, and feeling as if she had been on the verge of exercising malign power against him, deflected the intention of the gesture towards God's mercy upon him, in whatsoever condition he might now be.†   (source)
  • After all, she had perhaps purposely deflected the conversation from her own affairs, and after the pain his last words had evidently caused her he felt that all he could do was to follow her lead.   (source)
  • The ionosphere deflects radio waves.
  • Lit struck again, and Jason deflected his blade.†   (source)
  • Snow drinking from the poisoned cup himself to deflect suspicion.†   (source)
  • The missiles deflected off Aegis, but the force of their impact knocked Thalia down.†   (source)
  • But he knew he could not let any consideration deflect him.†   (source)
  • Haymitch takes a swipe with his knife but Peeta deflects it so easily it's pathetic.†   (source)
  • I lift my hand and deflect it away and it misses by a foot.†   (source)
  • My curse was deflected by the woman's foolish sacrifice, and it rebounded upon myself.†   (source)
  • Both had lifted visors streaked with deflection scars and their faces were very hard.†   (source)
  • He managed to deflect the spear, but it grazed his shoulder, and his arm went numb.†   (source)
  • The ball brushed his hands and deflected just under the bar to tie the game 2-2.†   (source)
  • Caught off-guard, he only had time to deflect, his parry lost in his size.†   (source)
  • He then made her dive to deflect one away for a corner kick.†   (source)
  • I intercepted with Riptide, but his strike was so powerful, my blade could only deflect it.†   (source)
  • Eragon saw the spear coming and tried to deflect it with a spell but was too slow.†   (source)
  • He's good at deflecting and even better at ignoring my snide remarks.†   (source)
  • Loren set down his tool and kind of deflected Harold's progress toward him.†   (source)
  • "Incarc—"Harry roared, but Snape deflected the spell with an almost lazy flick of his arm.†   (source)
  • My shield deflected the point, but I felt a painful tingling all over my body.†   (source)
  • No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity.†   (source)
  • 'Well,' said Harry, refusing to be deflected.†   (source)
  • Desjardins raised a shield to deflect the shards.†   (source)
  • What irony chiefly involves, then, is a deflection from expectation.†   (source)
  • Tyson couldn't deflect all those balls at once.†   (source)
  • I hoped to deflect his suspicion by playing to his greed.†   (source)
  • "In thirty-nine minutes we'd deflect ...," Johanssen quickly typed, "seventy-two kilometers!"†   (source)
  • I deflected it off the edge of my blade and kept charging.†   (source)
  • There's that net, clearly strung to deflect any such attack.†   (source)
  • My mind went on autopilot: stab, dodge, cut, deflect, roll.†   (source)
  • I raised a green shield of magic to deflect the fire.†   (source)
  • Its meaning can be deflected from the expected meaning.†   (source)
  • He deflected Eragon's probe with a flick of his thoughts.†   (source)
  • I deflect it and lift the scout again and throw it even harder.†   (source)
  • But as the giant raised his spear, Jason knew there was no way he could deflect this strike.†   (source)
  • "Fine, that was a cheap shot," he admitted, bringing his sword up to deflect another blow.†   (source)
  • I almost deflect them until I realize that it's Sarah.†   (source)
  • "Hmm?" she grunted, lunging to deflect his newest attack.†   (source)
  • A bolt of dark energy shot toward me, but I deflected it off my blade and slammed into him.†   (source)
  • I try to deflect the blast but it's too strong.†   (source)
  • Dorian swung his sword, grunting as Chaol easily deflected the blow and parried.†   (source)
  • just when I am about to deflect it, it explodes into a ball of fire, and the flames jump to me.†   (source)
  • She could only bound back, deflecting the blow with the iron tip of the staff.†   (source)
  • But he deflected, and though she spun and tried to knock him in his stomach, he blocked her again.†   (source)
  • I deflect it with the pocketknife but the weight of the sword snaps the blade in two.†   (source)
  • Chaol deflected, feigned, then thrust so hard that Dorian stepped back.†   (source)
  • "There's not much to tell," Katie protested, hoping to deflect the line of questioning.†   (source)
  • He flung some at Percy, who instinctively deflected it with his will.†   (source)
  • His first cut was low, and Victarion deflected it off his axe.†   (source)
  • But the second man managed to give the trunk a hard shove, just enough to deflect it away from them.†   (source)
  • And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing.†   (source)
  • The turtle's filmy inner eyelids blinked with uncanny precision, deflecting each shot.†   (source)
  • We tried to deflect the SF round with THAD, but it didn't even faze it.†   (source)
  • He belatedly lifted Brisingr to deflect the blow.†   (source)
  • Roran lifted his hammer and barely managed to deflect the razor-sharp blade.†   (source)
  • Blocking his friends, he deflected it, but a corner still struck him a terrible blow on the head.†   (source)
  • I suspect he had an inventory of these preemptive phrases to deflect inquiries while not offending.†   (source)
  • The man followed with his left fist, which Thomas also deflected.†   (source)
  • The great axe arced down, and though Drizzt was able to deflect its path, the effort numbed his arm.†   (source)
  • He threw it at the cable, but Sam deflected the blade with her ax.†   (source)
  • Deflect questions about yourself with jokes.†   (source)
  • Jason deflected it over Percy's head and into the lake.†   (source)
  • At first, I try to deflect her, unwilling to go on the offensive.†   (source)
  • Amos deflected them with wind and lightning.†   (source)
  • But he realized that she wasn't clinging to him in order to deflect guilt.†   (source)
  • The dead followed, their shields locked on either side and over their heads, deflecting all attacks.†   (source)
  • That money was specifically for—" Patsy deflected, "Take a chill pill, I'll pay you back.†   (source)
  • Mountaineering tends to draw men and women not easily deflected from their goals.†   (source)
  • At the last moment, Justin pulled his sword up and deflected the blow.†   (source)
  • Only a desperate parry deflected the next, as Vyndra now took his time, aiming with deliberation.†   (source)
  • And he also cast a spell to stop or deflect whatever might harm them.†   (source)
  • Jason intercepted it with his sword and deflected it sideways.†   (source)
  • Why did your wards fail to deflect Zar'roc, though?†   (source)
  • The stone deflected off the unfortunate dwarf's temple, snapping his neck violently to the side.†   (source)
  • I raised my wand and deflected the bolt of energy straight up.†   (source)
  • Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting.†   (source)
  • I deflected as another tear trickled down my cheek.†   (source)
  • Eragon stabbed, and Murtagh used his shield to deflect the attack.†   (source)
  • Chunks of cement and adobe brick flew at us, but Amos summoned the wind and deflected them.†   (source)
  • Shouting, Galbatorix charged at him, and Eragon deflected the king's clumsy blow.†   (source)
  • And the test at the chasm bridge, when I'd deflected those daggers—that hadn't seemed like me.†   (source)
  • Barst deflected the spear with his mace, then swung at Roran.†   (source)
  • Deflect much?†   (source)
  • He was improving so fast it was quite unnerving and when Harry taught them the Shield Charm — a means of deflecting minor jinxes so that they rebounded upon the attacker — only Hermione mastered the charm faster than Neville.†   (source)
  • I deflected one with my sword.†   (source)
  • The tiny number of people who henceforth knew of Ariana's existence could be counted upon to keep the secret, including her two brothers, who had deflected awkward questions with the answer their mother had taught them.†   (source)
  • My blade should've run him through, but it deflected off his stomach like I was hitting solid marble.†   (source)
  • He picked up a fork and began shoveling scrambled eggs into his mouth, hoping to deflect any invitation to join in this part of the conversation.†   (source)
  • I've flung out my arms to protect as much of his broken body as possible, so there's nothing to deflect the lash.†   (source)
  • The bullet deflected off Babi's fur as if it were made of titanium, and shattered a nearby McDonald's sign.†   (source)
  • To his consternation, he ran into a power that would not allow him to get closer, as if some magnetic force increased in direct opposition to his effort, deflecting him back into the room.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel deflects the compliments from staffers as we make our way toward the hall, stopping at an entryway marked "Stage Level Door 1."†   (source)
  • He had no desire to doubt again; he did not want o hear anything that would deflect him from his purpose.†   (source)
  • The Hephaestus cabin had set up traps around the entrance to the Labyrinth-razor wire, pits filled with pots of Greek fire, rows of sharpened sticks to deflect a charge.†   (source)
  • The man deflected it with his forearm, a red gash appearing there as the two of them collided and rolled across the floor, struggling against each other.†   (source)
  • The letter-writer, apparently an engineer, estimated the wind deflected the wheel to one side by only an inch and a half.†   (source)
  • He scrambled up and saw the snake outlined against the landing light: It struck, and Hermione dived aside with a shriek; her deflected curse hit the curtained window, which shattered.†   (source)
  • "Blocked again and again and again until you learn to keep your mouth shut and your mind closed, Potter!" sneered Snape, deflecting the curse once more.†   (source)
  • Bien controlled the ball, and tapped a pass to a streaking Idwar Dikori, who deflected the ball into the net.†   (source)
  • I gave Tyson a ten-foot pole and told him that his job was to push the other chariots away if they got too close, and to deflect anything they might try to throw at us.†   (source)
  • I ran for my sword, scooped it up, and launched a swipe at Ares's face, only to find my blade deflected again.†   (source)
  • Nothing would ever deflect Professor Binns, for example, from plowing on through his notes on goblin rebellions — as Binns hadn't let his own death stand in the way of continuing to teach, they supposed a small thing like Christmas wasn't going to put him off.†   (source)
  • I lunged at the thing that used to be Luke, thrusting my blade straight at his chest, but his skin deflected the blow like he was made of pure steel.†   (source)
  • Peeta has placed the broth pot under the worst one and repositioned the plastic to deflect most of it from me.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore flicked his own wand: the force of the spell that emanated from it was such that Harry, though shielded by his golden guard, felt his hair stand on end as it passed and this time Voldemort was forced to conjure a shining silver shield out of thin air to deflect it.†   (source)
  • The outer layer of the titan-poly exploded outward, deflecting most of the projectile energy in the counterblast.†   (source)
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