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turn away
«In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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occasion, occasioned, on occasion, turning away, turn away
«I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.»
«Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.»
«Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: / Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.»
«Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? / Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.»
«How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? / And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.»
«Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.»
«Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? / Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.»
«Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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Ancient of Days, Best A, draw away, Eye of, second best, turn away