keep clear of


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And in the meantime, if you can sit and talk with me of other things, for God's sake, stay and do so; but if you cannot keep clear of this accursed topic, then in God's name, go, for I cannot bear it.
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Commander Farragut thought, and with reason, that it was better to remain in deep water, and keep clear of continents or islands, which the beast itself seemed to shun
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Oddly enough it happened that the least satisfactory of Helen Ambrose's brothers had been sent out years before to make his fortune, at any rate to keep clear of race-horses, in the very spot which had now become so popular.
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The slightest mention of anything relative to Willoughby overpowered her in an instant; and though her family were most anxiously attentive to her comfort, it was impossible for them, if they spoke at all, to keep clear of every subject which her feelings connected with him.
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I have done my best to keep clear of the two vanities--the vanity of depreciating and the vanity of praising my own personal appearance.
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Give my letter to Helen, and say whatever you feel yourself, but do keep clear of the relatives.
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cries the carter, in so sharp a note that his very horse started; and then, "Well, mannie," he added, "it's nane of my affairs; but ye seem a decent-spoken lad; and if ye'll take a word from me, ye'll keep clear of the Shaws.
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With the whole county to hang a man in," expostulated Joe, "you might keep clear of Carr's woods.
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He is nothing to me otherwise; I would not cry him up on any personal ground--I would keep clear of that.
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A fallen log gave me an instant's advantage, for climbing upon it I leaped to another a few paces farther on, and in this way was able to keep clear of the mush that carpeted the surrounding ground.
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Ere they returned to camp he knew enough to stop at "ho," to go ahead at "mush," to swing wide on the bends, and to keep clear of the wheeler when the loaded sled shot downhill at their heels.
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A man should make sacrifices to keep clear of doing a wrong; sacrifices won't undo it when it's done.
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