...There are few cases throughout Grecian history in which an ablediscourse has been the means of averting so much evil, as was averted bythis speech of Xenophon to the army in Byzantium... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...Their main business is to summon orexorcise spirits for the purpose of averting or dispellingsickness, and of procuring favourable winds, a good catch of fish,and so on...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...These charms may be stones, small pieces of different sorts of bark, flowers, orvarious kinds of poisons, though the poisons appear to be only used for averting illness and death...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...The Christianlitany and the pagan ceremony had the same purpose,that of securing the blessing of Heaven upon thefields, and averting from them the pernicious effects of latespring frosts...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
...It is not improbable, that Wilson invented these circumstances in the hope of obtaining some attention, and thereby averting the punishment which he expected, and well knew that he had long deserved...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2」
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