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Competitors found the patent impossible to circumvent, for any departure from its exact specifications nullified the effect.
Then the young lady, utterly forgetful of all else and with tremulous eagerness, delicately circumvented the red-spotted beauties.
To circumvent this mountain the river had been flowing in a westerly direction; now it gradually turned to the northward.
It took nerve and strength to care for him; unceasing vigilance and ingenuity were required in circumventing his erratic movements.
He examined it again, trying to break through or to circumvent the deadlock, but he gave up with a shudder of repugnance.
Now, as we hope to create a weak digestion, what is more obvious than that we must use artifice to circumvent the stomach?
Robinson, Hastings, and I were anxious to see whether it was not possible in some way to circumvent this objectionable block.
Stallman also learned the lore, stories of how hackers, when presented with an obstacle, had circumvented it in creative ways.
Various attempts have been made to surmount or circumvent this difficulty; and some of these will come under consideration in the sequel.
This sprightly account of how a modern Eve circumvented a nineteenth century serpent is sure to find favor with novel readers.
The grand difficulty in circumventing these fellows has always consisted in the want of unsuspected persons to mingle with them.
Let circumstance seem to thwart or circumvent them in one direction, and almost instantly they are going forward along another direction.
The confederated barons had no sooner got outside the street-door than John began to think over the means of circumventing them.
Civil Rights laws connecting compliance with federal grants are blatantly ignored or creatively circumvented by many institutes of higher learning.
The Emperor, thus circumvented, allowed himself to be deceived, and a few months later embarked in this perfidious and deplorable enterprise.
He had learned the nature of the Indian race too well for him to give this precious specimen any chance to circumvent him.
Twice had Landless laid his plans for a second visit, only to be circumvented each time by the watchfulness of the overseer.
Had not this move been circumvented in the "nick of time," it is impossible to estimate the disastrous consequences which would have ensued.
Yet with all their vigilance they were circumvented, for one woman succeeded in outwitting everyone and entered the sacred chamber itself.
Gloomy it was, and desperately, sitting in her bedroom that night, the masterly woman battled for some way to circumvent it.
The latter found the confederate right flank too strong to circumvent, and added one more to the long list of lost opportunities.
She untied the ribbon every five minutes for two days, when Mary circumvented her by sewing a blue ribbon on each sleeve.
I defy the nicest art to circumvent one of our American girls, brought up as young ladies are brought up in our opulent country villages.
He had been wise enough to keep this in mind when trying to circumvent the obstinate feline enemy that refused to let them pass.
If anything can circumvent cunning, it is certainly cunning itself, and in this sense, it is entirely laudable when exerted in a proper cause.
The ice was full of fissures, and these had either to be circumvented or crossed, a very difficult matter with heavily laden sleighs.
"He had need to be a clever heretic that would circumvent me," he said, with the vanity of a young and successful scholar.
"Never fear, but we'll bring her back, ma'am," said Martin; "Malachi is a better Indian than them all, and he'll circumvent them."
Such animals as these were to be pursued and overtaken by the superior speed of horses and dogs, or to be circumvented by stratagem.
Seymour was very jealous of all this greatness, and was contriving every means in his power to circumvent and supersede his brother.
Masses of rock had become detached from above and had fallen, so that we had either to quarry through them or to circumvent them.
Nevertheless, he could not contemplate giving up Anne with equanimity, and set his wits to work in order to circumvent the treacherous Olga.
Was this a clever device on the part of the painter to circumvent hostile criticism by clothing his innovations with a sympathetic theme?
Therefore, it was to circumvent the Northern pacifists quite as much as to undermine the Southern expansionists that he offered compromise and avoided war.
Strict orders to put a stop to the iniquitous proceedings were circumvented by agents sent in the interest of the authors of the outrages.
Sooner or later his vigilance is circumvented and the metal that he has extricated by the fiery furnace returns to its natural affinity.
He makes sharper spears, or a better bow, or he constructs a cunning pitfall, or combines in a hunting party to circumvent his new prey.
And then the thing happened which Herbert had expected, in part, and had planned to circumvent: a rally of reprisal had been started.
The going that morning proved fairly good, the chief obstacle being huge clumps of a coarse, rank grass, which we had to circumvent.
Widow, possessed of a natural curiosity that it is hard to circumvent, was loath to leave without a glimpse of the contents of the basket.
Whether the natives have ever circumvented the savages by the simple expedient of greasing the wheels is not recorded in the local chronicles.
Great as was this discrepancy between the opponents, it was counterbalanced largely by Howe's skillful dispositions, which his enemy could not circumvent.
From every point of view he conned over in his mind the defenses of the castle, and wrestled with the problem of circumventing them.
They were three; and, from the distinguished fidelity of their governors, and incorruptible chastity of Agrippina, could not be all circumvented by poison.
In his view, artifice is wisdom; and he honors the skill that can circumvent, no less than the valor that can subdue, an adversary.
Afterwards, because they had been circumvented by treachery, and by a countryman of their own, above all men, their grief was changed into anger.
If the analyst is skillful, he is able to circumvent all the subterfuges of the resisting forces and to uncover and modify the troublesome complexes.
A man cannot nonchalantly face the prospect of obliteration, and the biological fact of death may be circumvented by the equally real fact of reproduction.
The wisdom of the serpent sometimes had to be called into play to circumvent the adroit maneuvering of these interests and their servants in Congress.
The thousand feet from that point to the summit looked slightly more difficult, and appeared to possess certain rook towers, which, however, might be circumvented.
She, consequently, finding that he was unmanageable, did all in her power to embarrass him in his plans, and to thwart and circumvent him.
He forgot his spaniels, his parrots, his monkeys, and even his painted concubines, and roused himself to circumvent the plans of his hated rival.
Indeed, at every step forward which the people made for equality and justice, the senate, representing the aristocracy, passed laws to circumvent the plebeians.
He moved about the room, skimming the edges of the long table and circumventing chairs and protruding backs of awkward guests with peculiar skill.
He turned his secret over, and between intervals of hunting and of work, held deep speculation with himself how best to circumvent the miser.
"It means, my boy," I said, "that there's been a hitch in their arrangements, and that we're not too late to circumvent them after all."
It is outrageous to think of gratifying the wishes of those scoundrels, but I am afraid it must be done, if we cannot circumvent them before that time.
His foes are circumvented by his shrewdness and keen wit even as much as by his unfailing skill in archery or dexterous strength in personal contest.
For these intellectual duels with Douglas, he possessed a power of analysis that easily outran and circumvented the "Little Giant's" most extraordinary gymnastics of argument.
The Legislatures of Nebraska and Alabama have occasionally succeeded in passing amendments favored by politicians, by resorting to clever tricks to circumvent the constitutional handicaps.
When all hope of controlling Johnson had been given up, Thaddeus Stevens and other leaders of similar views began to contrive means to circumvent him.
There is no principle that is so intelligent, so upright, and so exact, as justice; and no creature can expect either to warp it, or to circumvent it.
She awoke from her stupor of indifference and strove in every way to circumvent the plot of the two conspirators, so far as I was concerned.
It might have been invented on purpose to circumvent collectors, as the Almighty has been supposed by some to have created fossils on purpose to deceive ungodly geologists.
Even had they been without arrows, they felt confident that in such a circumscribed space they would have been able to circumvent and capture the game.
They are to be dreaded exactly as human beings are to be dreaded; to be appeased or circumvented by the same methods that man applies to his fellows.
The result was, that after trying several ways to circumvent the unsympathetic parent, they decided upon a secret marriage, and this was actually accomplished.
The writs have not prevented smuggling; on the contrary, it is regarded as almost a virtue and a duty to circumvent a government which enacts unrighteous laws.
To circumvent the king, hero fills a sledge with earth taken from his own orchard, and has himself drawn into the presence of his Majesty.
Alexander literally "circumvented" them by making a night march over a difficult mountain pass, and astonishing them by an attack on their rear the following morning.
Already the Prince had organized that system of espionage upon Philip, by which the champion of his country was so long able to circumvent its despot.
For a sort of wily approach, as though to somehow circumvent an object of suspicion, had been promptly intercepted, and he found himself firmly held as before.
He has no need of hiding anything, and I am obliged to play the hypocrite, take him always into account, conceal my real feelings, deceive and circumvent him.
This was our first triumphant victory, which showed that not even darkness could circumvent our plans, and which dispelled all further doubts as to our efficiency.
This condition of affairs has resulted in the devising of ways and means of circumventing obnoxious laws and in some cases in practices which are pernicious in themselves.
He swore that he would circumvent their schemes, and that though his life should be the forfeit, he would severely revenge the sufferings he had endured.
One day, however, a fortunate chance enabled a party of the Huguenots to discover, and to circumvent an Indian hunter, upon whom they came suddenly in the forests.
Flawless might be their action, but both Steamer and his friend Railway had 'a little temper,' the differing expressions of which took me years to circumvent.
Although tall for a woman, the red-haired breed was head and shoulders above her, and she recognized a captor that could only be circumvented by guile.
When the afternoon march had already extended for hours we found ourselves travelling mile after mile across the line of our intended route to circumvent the crevasses.
The Persians were twice circumvented, in a situation which made valor useless and flight impossible; and the double victory of the Huns was achieved by military stratagem.
Every art the Indian can devise is made use of to circumvent these great birds, and snares, traps, and decoys of all kinds are employed in the pursuit.
However positive an order to the contrary, they will not infrequently contrive to circumvent it, mistakenly believing that by this act they save him from himself.
A glow of grim delight swept athwart his features at this, for he knew that the enemy were still ignorant of the plan on foot to circumvent them.
Yes, he absolutely played with the river, and though it kept catching at his diminutive form, he always evaded it, circumvented its movements, and avoided its snares.
Now suppose we find the ordinary box of a pantry, slip of a kitchen and scullery and larder, how should we best circumvent this arrangement, I wonder?
Great boulders had to be circumvented, and patches of bog, where the streams from the snows first made contact with the plains, mired us to our girths.
There being no direct way, and public sentiment being insistent, Congressmen find themselves under the painful necessity of circumventing the Constitution they have sworn to uphold.
General Grant saw what was going on, and has cruelly circumvented two young and unsophisticated hearts that were knitting together, like ivy round an oak sapling.
The douching from the descending shoots of water, the circumventing of the pools, caused the walk of the two to be no more than approximately side by side.
It circumvented them on all sides, save only in front, where, through several beaker-shaped breaks in the high sand dunes they could catch a glimpse of the sea.
They take up one of his notes for him, looking to see that it has not been tampered with, because "he is easily circumvented and not adroit in his business."
She felt certain that should the dusty knight reappear, he would be recognized from afar, and that Rufus Carder would circumvent any plan he might have.
And this course was valued both for its security, and because he that circumvented his adversary by fraud assumed to himself withal a mastery in point of wit.
And as a mathematician with built-in gift for logic and foresight, Stallman possessed the ability to circumvent design barriers that left most hackers spinning their wheels.
It is also obvious to what extent this representation by means of identification can circumvent the resisting censor, which makes the dream activity conform to such harsh conditions.
Wide and rambling galleries of one height or another crawled partially about the expanses of the building, and again paused, as though weary of the attempt to circumvent it.
Her swift motions and deft hands, impelled by her quick mind, would outwit half a dozen people who were looking for means by which to circumvent her.
She, therefore, strove all she could to circumvent her; and, indeed, she was fully qualified for such a purpose, as she was a cunning, deceitful young person.
They seemed to circumvent each morsel and, having won it, defied us with angry eyes to take it back again, regarding our free gift as a triumph of their own finesse.