Both Uses of
evade
in
My Antonia
- 'I'll come sometime, but Mrs. Harling don't like to have me run much,' she said evasively.†
Book 2 *
- The life that went on in them seemed to me made up of evasions and negations; shifts to save cooking, to save washing and cleaning, devices to propitiate the tongue of gossip.†
Book 2
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