How To Use Stave In A Sentence

Japan had hoped that the resumption of talks in September would help the countries settle the issue and stave off mounting cries on both sides for further escalation.
They entered the market obliquely through the production of non-agricultural products such as barrel staves that they bartered for textiles, hardware and cheap consumer goods.
But this shock win gave City a huge lift in their quest to stave off relegation from the Championship. The Sun
The man was whittling a stave of birchwood into a rude axe-handle, and asked the question without raising his head. THE GREAT INTERROGATION
The airline is pushing ahead with its own restructuring plan in an attempt to stave off bankruptcy. Times, Sunday Times

The wood of the stave and arrow shafts was dark with moisture.
A Ringwood business has staved off an enforcement notice from New Forest district council at the 11th hour.
Dublin finally bowed to the inevitable yesterday and said it DOES need a rescue package to stave off bankruptcy. The Sun
A polite tongue provided a shield of tactful silence and banal pleasantries that staved off needless provocation and harm.
The lost camper staved off death from hunger by eating birds eggs.
It's like a workshop in Hades - you feel the heat from barrels set over open fires in the floor and hear the piercing din of hammers on steel as hoops are pounded onto staves.
Re peace overtures, Krushchev and Eisenhower were about to have a big summit that might have staved off the hideously expensive Cold War. Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy
For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves.
The duty of the British infantry was now to stave off increasingly heavy attacks from cavalry, infantry and artillery. Times, Sunday Times
He invested 2.5m of his own money to stave off bankruptcy three years ago. Times, Sunday Times
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Many of the men had armed themselves with staves and pieces of iron.
It has little nutritional value but will stave off hunger pangs. Times, Sunday Times
Yet this is far from certain and policymakers need to do more to stave off the threat of deflation, stagnation and financial instability. Times, Sunday Times
Still, he has had to work hard to stave off competition from big retailers, and specialist sausages and oven-ready dishes like Irish stew and chicken with lemon and coriander sauce are a big part of the business.
In trying to stave off this fate of being dated, he has clung desperately to remaining youthful.
To their dismay, Staveley found they had their backs to the wall as Celtic grabbed two goals back.
His family business and its subsidiary, Keystone Cooperage, make oak wine-barrel stock - the staves and barrelheads - as well as finished barrels.
Eu fico entrigada com a desumanidade que vocês tem…Larga do dela dexa ela fazer o que quiser da vida dela …Dexa de ficar humilhando os outros com suas ações…Oque mais me entriga é que nenhum de vocês tem a coragem de falar seus próprios defeitos…Parem de falar mal dos outros e vão ser voluntários em alguma coisa ….tentar ajudar o planeta …Fazer alguma coisa que seja prestavel au nundo…. Jim Carrey Jenny McCarthy Commitment Ceremony
The manager may have to do business in next month's transfer window if he is to stave off the threat of relegation. Times, Sunday Times
The more powerful the force arrayed against them, the more likely Iraqi commanders will realize that resorting to chemical or biological weapons will not stave off defeat but simply put them before a tribunal once the war is over.
The two-year subsidy is intended to stave off colliery closures until after the general election.
Bingley's Rob Jebb, who lives at Staveley, was a disappointing ninth, four places behind his main challenger for the British championship title, Ian Holmes.
On the roadway, the supporters were shouting at the crowd to move back, staves were being swung, a few punches thrown.
If you're buying a stave from a dealer, you'll save on drying time (4-6 weeks if cutting your own). Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps
He used his stave like a walking cane, swinging it before him with a tap of his boot.
Here there were no men training, only a few targets and a pile of wooden staves in the corner.
This is placed between two staves and moved to wherever you want it by using the cursor keys.
Considering the number of life (and lifestyle and/or employment) threatening events that could be staved off with what the chattering classes consider “small change”, it would add much needed stability to millions of households. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
Senators, two and two, with short black cloaks, white bands, and gold-tipped staves, trod statelily towards the church. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
Gabe stalked over to the weapons rack and pulled down two wooden staves, in a bad temper because his preferred sword hadn't been chosen.
Villa are intent on making a long-term appointment rather than appointing a shortterm fix to stave off relegation. Times, Sunday Times
In an attempt to stave off a crisis, California has implemented some dramatic initiatives to conserve cash. Times, Sunday Times
They fought the riot police with staves and stones.
But at least you've staved it off for 30, 40 years so that you don't get those proportionate deadly results.
Map of Old Prince William "before p. 351.) [5] A piggin is a small container made like a barrel but open at the top and often with one longer stave with a handle fashioned in it. Letter from Robert Carter to Benjamin Grayson, July 13, 1731
Eating more fruit, vegetables and yoghurt helped to stave off middle-age spread. Times, Sunday Times
Villa are intent on making a long-term appointment rather than appointing a shortterm fix to stave off relegation. Times, Sunday Times
A freckled boy of about seventeen was stooped over his jointer, busy bevelling a barrel-stave, and another a year or two younger was carefully paring long bands of willow for binding the staves together when the barrel was set up in its truss hoop. An Excellent Mystery
The observed invariance of melittin-induced leakage with differences in bilayer hydrocarbon thickness is also evidence in favor of the toroidal pore over the barrel stave pore.
In cults and controlling groups the crisis of admitting that everything one has believed is wrong is staved off by finding new explanations for discrepancies in the group's ideas and rules.
Belloc then unwrapped the bundle, and Anest saw that it contained three staves of rare black oak taken from the Black Forest, a place of legend known only to wizards and the faerie creatures.
As he searched, he spotted a wooden stave laying in the dirt.
A fayre quilte of crymson sattin, vj breadths, iij yardes 3 quarters naile deepe, all lozenged over with silver twiste, in the midst a cinquefoile within a garland of ragged staves, fringed rounde aboute with Kenilworth
Britten's setting is mimetic and operatic, the piano part consisting of a stylisation of the boy's fiddling, notated on one stave only.
Vigilante groups dressed in robes and turbans, armed with staves and swords and mounted on motorbikes, patrol the city to enforce the curfew.
It's a film that plumbs the emotional depths of the women as they struggle to find meaning in their lives and stave off madness.
It is characterized by developed bronze types including palstaves, flange-hilted swords, dirks with rounded or trapezoidal butts, and a variety of pins and bracelets.
There are then two unattached cords of some strength, called the pull line and the forked line, which latter is attached, when required for use, to the two staves nearest the birdcatcher, at the intersection of the top line. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
When barrels are made, a profession called cooperage, the wood has to be heated over a fire to curve and shape the oak staves. News for Culpeper Star-Exponent
The clefs, rests, and expression marks such as slurs and phrasing, even the thickness of the staves, make up a complex pictorial and typographical unity.
Police were called to deal with the marooned low-loader on Friday morning after it became jammed on the crest of the bridge over the Kennet and Avon canal at Staverton.
I staved off jet lag with a bath and an early night.
Parts of the grandiose Stalin-era building were sold to casino owners to raise money to stave off closure.
This consists simply of four notes written out on a single stave in breves.
She wandered all over the stave and produced a curious counterpoint to the tune.
Lower down the stave, articulation was soft-pedalled to such an extent that some syllables never carried beyond the platform. Times, Sunday Times
His Swan Lake sets and costumes, informed not just by the overripe sensibility of the Pre-Raphaelites but also by Gustave Moreau and other decadents, look breathtaking on paper.
That is certainly the impression one receives from the memoir of Gustave Folcher.
Up M'Iver put his shoulders, dighted his blade on a tuft of bog-grass, and whistled a stave of the tune they call "The Desperate Battle. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
The study could help the design of pills or supplements to stave off heart disease and mental decline. Times, Sunday Times
I started to crash to the stones of the courtyard, only to find myself being supported by Gareth, who had immediately dropped his stave to catch me.
Electricity imported from Ireland also helped to stave off the threat of power shortages. Times, Sunday Times
For three years the wine is aged in new barrels made of hand-split oak staves.
To stave off calamity, mix degustation with the beach, bike hire and waterslides. Times, Sunday Times
Carving is also applied to the production of staves of traditional office, drums, dolls, and game boards.
Dublin finally bowed to the inevitable yesterday and said it DOES need a rescue package to stave off bankruptcy. The Sun
The airline is pushing ahead with its own restructuring plan in an attempt to stave off bankruptcy. Times, Sunday Times
A calculation model of the coefficient of heat transfer between gas and stave body and inlaid refractory is built based on the substitution method of boundary condition.
It is written in four-stave systems (the continuo is partially figured) and, interestingly, lacks both a viola part and a separate part for the violone.
Football chiefs rejected a Pompey plea to sell players outside the transfer window to help stave off the threat of administration last month. The Sun
Even if those horns manage a gouge here or a nick there, a matador can always depend on antibiotics to stave off serious complications.
This seems to me an admirably succinct account of what might be called the unromantic school of ecocriticism (disencumbered of the notion that literature can and ought to be deployed as a weapon in the battle to stave off our "headlong rush into destruction," that it might "help us tread more lightly on the earth"). The State of Criticism
All edges will meet properly and the barrel will hold liquid without any agent other than the hoops which hold the staves together.
The mouse allows you to click the notes into position on the stave and saves a lot of keying time.
But, largely thanks to the efforts of the ‘Save the Jags’ campaign, under whose auspices Thistle supporters rallied to raise funds, the immediate threat of closure was staved off.
At last we saw lights approaching, and another cavass (belonging to our excellent consul) appeared with lots of lanterns and men "with staves and swords," as becometh a Levantine consul, and, escorted by these, we walked a long way over the rough, slippery paving-stones before we reached the Armenian and Greek quarters. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
In 1874 he settled in Wilson, Wis., and for five years engaged in the manufacture of staves and barrelheads.
But, following a shake-up of the board and some work being undertaken on the green, the axe has been staved off for the time being.
One or two of the gang climbed the banks to discover if any bailiffs were on the watch; while the others sat down, and with the help of the turnip lantern "busked" their spears; in other words, fastened on the steel -- or, it might be, merely pieces of rusty iron sharpened into a point at home -- to the staves. Auld Licht Idyls
The inner form has one wedge-shaped loose stave which is withdrawn after the concrete has set for about 20 hours, thus collapsing the inner form and allowing it to be removed. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs
Formerly they made consultatory staves of this tree; and the variegated rods which Jacob peel’d to lay in the troughs, and impress a fancy in his father-in-law’s conceiving ewes, were of this material. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
But we could not have staved if off any longer in this day and age - and we were one of the few clubs in the country which did not have women as full members.
As usual, I heard Gustave's staccato yap, and Gwen Nielson calming him down: `There's a marvellous watch-dog! THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah.
In some books he used three impressions: one for staves, another for notes and other musical signs, and the third for the text.
This seems to me an admirably succinct account of what might be called the unromantic school of ecocriticism (disencumbered of the notion that literature can and ought to be deployed as a weapon in the battle to stave off our "headlong rush into destruction," that it might "help us tread more lightly on the earth"). The State of Criticism
Self-bows are those which are made fully of wood, either a single stave, or a pair of shorter staves, usually jointed at the handle, giving a single length.
Sketch for Le Pont de l'Europe, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes David Galenson: Gustave Caillebotte, Conceptual Impressionist
The research suggests that employees tend to visit online shopping sites to stave off boredom and escape from work pressures. Computing
I walked up and down Tottenhan Court Road with Mark at lunchtime in a vain attempt to stave off unconsciousness.
The same leaders of more than 50 men who beat Peter Cavanaugh to death with wooden staves forbade anyone other than close relatives from attending the burial.
Once I kotch up to him, I mean to stave his head in and nail his fly-bit hide to my door. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
With sharpened scythes and pitchforks, with pointed staves and heavy truncheons and ironshod clubs, they killed the miserable Germans all day long, and the line of escape was marked along the Beauvoisine road by corpses almost to The Story of Rouen
And Foley's production piles on the sight gags: chairs and tables spin across the stage every time a train passes, the robbery is re-created by miniaturised cars colliding on a vertical wall, and, when the thieves fall out, a trick-knife is embedded in the boxer's bonce, and the pill-popper is apparently run through with a non-musical stave. The Ladykillers – review by Michael Billington
Each chapter is called a stave, or stanza of the carol. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature
Archaeologists think it may have been built in a forlorn attempt to stave off the effects of climate change 5,000 years ago.
Her rapid vibrato, particularly above the stave, added a distinctive and not unpleasant color.
Anyone who remembered the plastic visors, the guns and staves of police guarding the Justice Department during Vietnam protests had to be struck with the civility of it all.
After about 200 metres I was half-dead, and promptly decided that I'd take the short route and meet the others by the hospitals they were going across Stavebrua, north on the other sida of the river and back to this side again via the bridge next to the hospital. Running.
The study could help the design of pills or supplements to stave off heart disease and mental decline. Times, Sunday Times
In some cases, concrete and stone retaining walls and dikes are erected along banks to stave off overflow in heavy rain.
DRYING AND SHAPING Pare the green stave with a hatchet and a drawknife so that it's slightly larger than the shape of your intended design. Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps
A similar move to repeal these taxes last August in Congress was staved off when President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have gradually repealed federal inheritance taxes.
Mavericks as they again staved off elimination in their Western USATODAY.com
He could make out the glint of staves and unsheathed swords through the swirling dust.
Wear out his team by February and hope they have already amassed enough points to stave off relegation? Times, Sunday Times
Jonathan trained his crossbow on the back door while Kyli and Ben stood on either side of the door with their staves raised.
Passing the long rows of steam saw-mills, -- Jacksonville is a flourishing lumber port, -- one comes to the point of debarcation for millions of feet of pine lumber, shingles and staves, and great quantities of naval stores. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
Gustave Adolphe, suivez en arriere, et gardez bien que le prisonnier n'echappe pas;" so saying, monsieur le capitaine led the way to a large white house and buildings, about two hundred yards from the river's banks. Newton Forster The Merchant Service
In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution.
Natural gas, boiling water, and steam will heat the wood effectively and allow the cooper to bend the staves without the creation of blisters on the inside of the staves.
But he could not stave off relegation from the Championship. The Sun
How coincidental that the Tate imbroglio should have taken place barely more than a month after the brouhaha stirred by the Yale University Press's bowdlerization of Jytte Klausen's book, "The Cartoons That Shook The World," to be published in November, after having excised the now infamous Danish cartoons as well as Gustave Dore's illustration of Mohammed for Canto 28 of Dante's "Inferno. Raymond J. Learsy: "Spiritual America": Censorship at Yale, and Now London?
A couple of teenagers were trying to stave in our shed door.
By looking at the end grain, it was often possible to determine whether the darts were made from natural shafts or split from larger pieces of wood in the form of staves.
Richard worked just about every job in that business, from harvesting logs to make the barrel staves through to coopering and trucking the water-tight barrels to fishery clients in Atlantic Canada.
He brought his stave up and I quickly dropped my left hand, dealing him a one-handed blow on the side off his arm before bringing my own stave up to block his blow.
Their poems were graven upon small staves or rods, one line upon each face of the rod; and the Old English word "stave," as applied to a stanza, is probably a relic of the practice, which, in the early ages, prevailed in the West. Forty Centuries of Ink
Perseverance '-- for that was her name -- was spoken somewhere in the vicinity of the ends of the earth, cruising along as leisurely as ever, her sails all bepatched and be quilted with rope-yarns, her spars fished with old pipe staves, and her rigging knotted and spliced in every possible direction. Typee
He could see long, curving horns attached where the pommel would be on a normal saddle, and the rider carried a shield and a long stave, and had a sword sheathed at her hip.
A Western diplomat said that the king had staved off the serious unrest that has swept other countries in the region, and that the monarchy remained stable. U.S. sends officials to reassure nervous allies
The Latins used formerly to call to bind _ligare_, and now call it _alligare_; wherefore the staff-bearers are called _lictors_, and their staves are called _bacula_, [A] from the rods which they then carried. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
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Football chiefs rejected a Pompey plea to sell players outside the transfer window to help stave off the threat of administration last month. The Sun
A couple of teenagers were trying to stave in our shed door.
Gold-covered wooden staves were used to carry The Ark Of The Covenant.
You know why I linger in this dear room -- dear as the barrier that staves off guttery death? Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet
Her timbers are swollen and misshapen; repeated doses of chemicals are being applied to stave off the encroaching rot.
Len Smith was attacked just seconds after reaching his 46th birthday and was beaten savagely with a wooden stave picked up in the beer garden of his pub in Salford.
I saw a young woman in a little, flower print dress and slingbacks, tiny handbag held above her head in a vain attempt to stave off the rain and wind.
The lost camper staved off death from hunger by eating birds eggs.
As not every tree in an auction lot can be used for staves, French cooperages usually work with wood brokers who have other customers.
The evolutionary phenomenon happens when an animal or plant resembles another creature or object, either to stave off predators or gain other advantages. Times, Sunday Times
I will do my best to stave off his participation.
He invested 2.5m of his own money to stave off bankruptcy three years ago. Times, Sunday Times
In the early seventeenth century staves were used in the ‘sport’ of bull-baiting, where dogs were set against bulls. Origin of Familiar Phrases
The Latins formerly used ligare in the same sense as now alligare, to bind, whence the name lictors, for these officers, and bacula, or staves, for their rods, because staves were then used. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
a French translation, a Parisian critic -- I am almost certain it was M. Gustave Kahn in the "Gil Blas" -- giving me a short notice, summed up his rapid impression of the writer's quality in the words _un puissant reveur_. A Personal Record
I will do my best to stave off his participation.
Listening to classical music can help stave off organ failure after a heart transplant. Times, Sunday Times
And William, if you'll visit the Caterina thread linked above (at the word "meme"), you'll find that my first dip into these waters produced a sentence in Russian (and quite a striking one it was too: Raza dva na etikh vecherinkakh poprekrasnodushestvovali v pochti polnom semeinom sostave i my). Languagehat.com: THE EXQUISITE CORPSE OF PAGE 23.
In an effort to stave off and global homogenisation, Britain boldly maintained its tradition of driving on the left.
In an attempt to stave off a crisis, California has implemented some dramatic initiatives to conserve cash. Times, Sunday Times
They would charge full in face, and presenting their own massive and solid beaks would stave in the hollow and weak forepart of their enemies 'ships; 40 while the Athenians, confined as they were, would not be able to wheel round them or break their line before striking, to which manoeuvres they mainly trusted -- the want of room would make the one impossible, and the The History of the Peloponnesian War
Dearer than life itself to the cannoneer is the gun he serves, and these brave men fought hand to hand with handspikes, rammers, staves, and even stones. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI
I staved off jet lag with a bath and an early night.
I heard the bows ground in the sand, staved the dingey off the rudder of the big boat with my piggin, and freeing the painter, landed. The Island of Doctor Moreau
And this I likewise might confirm of two elms, planted by me about 35 years since; which being little bigger than walking-staves, and set on the very brink of a ditch or narrow channel (not always full of water) wharfed with a wall of a brick and half in thickness, (to keep the bank from falling in) are since grown to goodly and equally spreading trees of near two foot diameter, solid timber, and of stature proportionable. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
Nutrition has improved, doctors and the Easter Seals people recommending folic acid in hefty does to stave off preventable birth defects like spina bifida. Beth Kohl: The Downside of Prenatal Information
David Obuya was the man sent in to stave of the hat-trick but he was yorked by Lee with the most perfect of deliveries.
The clefs, rests, and expression marks such as slurs and phrasing, even the thickness of the staves, make up a complex pictorial and typographical unity.
The picturesque fishing village of Honfleur with its medieval buildings, harbor and green hills attracted artists from France and England during the nineteenth century beginning with the Barbizon landscape painters, Camille Corot, Constant Troyon and Gustave Courbet among others. Denise Dennis: Normandy: Birthplace of Impressionism Celebrated this Summer
Yet this is far from certain and policymakers need to do more to stave off the threat of deflation, stagnation and financial instability. Times, Sunday Times
They perch on the wires like notes on a stave of sheet music. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the men had armed themselves with staves and pieces of iron.
Clearly, however, the dictator and his cronies are worried since this is a classic delaying gambit akin to racing chess pieces around the board in a desperate attempt to stave off impending checkmate.
Discoveries on a more human scale from those distant times included bronze spears, knives and palstaves and inscribed pots.
Europe also faces the spectre of deflation and this week its central bank meets to decide how to stave it off. Times, Sunday Times
There were no cockle-shells, or tape-sandals, or staves, or scrips, or anything romantic and pious about the eight persons who set out for Hazelbridge that morning, more earnestly wishful to be good and deedful -- at least Oswald, I know, was -- than ever they had been in the days of the beastly Wouldbegood Society. The Wouldbegoods
The side of the boat was staved in by the collision.
Each town has a blacksmith, a dealer in wands and staves, and a seller of potions.
A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the Orion had run back to Toulon. Les Miserables
He says that previous bailouts encouraged banks to think the government would always save them, and argues that doing nothing to stave off a crisis would do little harm to the U.S.
Jo vaig citar una frase de Gustave Flaubert (potser en angls, quin horror!) que magrada molt i que cpio aqu: Archive 2009-11-01
A masked, armed nightrider who admitted terrorizing freed slaves, William Stewart Simkins proudly spoke of beating a "darkey" with a barrel stave. Dr. Tom Russell: Professor's Paper Targets Klan Reference on U. of Texas Dorm ... And Gets Action
Finally the staves were joined on a jointer, known as a colombe in French.
Wilcox's experience as a logger developed into another niche market: cutting staves for a barrel maker.
Worry not, for I am armed with my deadly bumbershoot to stave off all the mashers of my unsolicited arsenal of verbose thoughts. Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
There were no cockle-shells, or tape-sandals, or staves, or scrips, or anything romantic and pious about the eight persons who set out for Hazelbridge that morning, more earnestly wishful to be good and deedful – at least Oswald, I know, was – than ever they had been in the days of the beastly Wouldbegood Society. The Wouldbegoods
Firefighters and control staff now have a chance to stave off swingeing attacks on their conditions by employers who have reneged on an earlier pay deal.
Also, look for any octave doublings or unisons, circling or otherwise marking them between the staves.
Her girls listened with grave attention; and by eagerly putting a question, whenever she showed signs of running down, they managed to stave off the Latin recitation for three quarters of an hour. Just Patty
For he now lived inside the words of Omar, the ghost's plaintive smile staved his soul of its inexpiable guilt. The Sanchez Ghost
In order to stave off the opponent's attack at the last moment and restore one's position one must keep the moral attitude of initiative so as not to get worsted by the adversary.
Yet this is far from certain and policymakers need to do more to stave off the threat of deflation, stagnation and financial instability. Times, Sunday Times
The two guards were confronted by four men in balaclavas, armed with a small samurai sword and wooden staves.
He also looks to have the right character of team to stave off relegation. Times, Sunday Times
To stave off colds, she should combine it with aconite at the first sign of a scratchy throat or a congested feeling in the head.
Sketch for Le Pont de l'Europe, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876, MusÃ©e des beaux-arts de Rennes David Galenson: Gustave Caillebotte, Conceptual Impressionist
There is one palstave, with double loops, in the National Collection; and another was found in Ireland at Ballincollig, County Cork, and is in the Evans collection. The Bronze Age in Ireland
Number 14 (Up Country, 2002, etc.) from the master of the parboiled potboiler, in which an intrepid cop single-handedly staves off Armageddon. Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille: Book summary
But he could not stave off relegation from the Championship. The Sun
Every character has swords, staves or other edged weaponry, which you can perform light spin attacks or strong power strikes on opponents.
Gustave Planche, in his time an influential antiromantic critic, used the term “realism” from about 1833 onward almost as an equivalent of materialism, particularly for the minute description of costumes and customs in historical novels. REALISM IN LITERATURE
Her habit of jealously bursting in on Gustave when he was dining with friends was notorious.
Everyone has worked hard to stave off any threat of hosepipe bans. Times, Sunday Times
Journalists alleged they were stopped at a distance of 9 km from Nandigram, about 150 km from Kolkata, by CPI-M men who 'patrolled' the area as angry residents moved about with swords, staves and other weapons in a free for all. CPI-M goons the new cops in forbidden Nandigram
It was, he said, necessary to help to stave off bankruptcy. Times, Sunday Times
Wearing a seemingly unlimited supply of colorful hand-knitted sweater-vests, Gustave had the whitest hair Byron had ever seen, with a bristly set of eyebrows that, other than up close, looked virtually invisible against his face. Unearthly Asylum
The staves at each end, to which the nets are permanently attached, are made of red deal, ferruled and jointed at the middle, in the manner of a fishing rod, for the convenience of carriage. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
Yet, and though it might seem unpalatable to the Rangers faithful, the truth is that the full effects of the club's trade deficit continue to be staved off in a footballing context.
An "ideal" BMI sufferer putting on a few pounds of muscle by doing some judicious exercise might well stave off death for a bit longer; simply gorging on cakes probably won't help. recent calls for a BMI tax are now further exposed as foolishness, and the "fat people" that he rashly proposes to attack with a stick (any time, Coren - better make it a big stick*) have the consolation of knowing that they'll probably outlive him. The Register
In 1851 he decamped for Paris to meet and study with Gustave Le Gray, a teacher of important photographers and a founder of the world's first photographic society.
Wear out his team by February and hope they have already amassed enough points to stave off relegation? Times, Sunday Times

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