"Obviating" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... library, or, perhaps, carried on under the auspices of the state associations. At any rate, it is encouraging to reflect that we are not insensible to the obstacles in the way of making our own, or any other association truly American in scope, and are experimenting toward obviating them. ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
... to reports of his bigotry, I was agreeably surprized when he expressed the following very liberal sentiment, which has the additional value of obviating an objection to our holy religion, founded upon the discordant tenets of Christians themselves: 'For my part, Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... all discipline promptly, pleasantly, but no less firmly and without relaxation, on the least sign of its need, we find to do much towards obviating ...
— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine
... his boat so laboured that he could scarcely steer — that is, "the tempestuous matter of despair, that Troilus was in; but now of hope the kalendes begin." He invokes the aid of Clio; excuses himself to every lover for what may be found amiss in a book which he only translates; and, obviating any lover's objection to the way in which Troilus obtained his lady's grace - - through Pandarus' mediation — says it seems to him no ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... superabundant activities, ambitions, and confusions of daily life, but it has also the regulative powers teaching men to divide the sphere of the imagination from that of practical life, and thus obviating the dangers that so often arise from ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... POLISH.—This is one of the greatest inventions of the age. It has been the result of a large amount of study on the part of the inventor to perfect a polish that would work easily and satisfactorily in a perfect dry state, thereby obviating the disagreeable task of mixing and preparing. A good stove polish is an absolute necessity in every family. It is only a question, then, of offering the best to make a sale. To prove that this polish is the best is an easy task. All you have to do is to have a box open ...
— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus |
