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Turn away

verb

Move so as not face somebody or something.

Turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest. Synonyms: bend, deflect.

Refuse entrance or membership. Synonyms: refuse, reject, turn down. "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"

Turn away or aside. Synonym: avert.

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"Turn away" Quotes from Famous Books

... masters compel into painting or song. To others it is granted but to have fleeting glimpses of that fair Art-world; and tempted by ambition, or barred by faint-heartedness, or driven by necessity, to turn away thence to the vulgar life-track, and the ...

— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

... cannot pause with delight. The nature in it is true nature. Given a story thus sad, and persons thus situated, and it is thus that the details would follow each other, and thus that the people would conduct themselves. It was the tone of Thackeray's mind to turn away from the prospect of things joyful, and to see,—or believe that he saw,—in all human affairs, the seed of something base, of something which would be antagonistic to true contentment. All his snobs, and all his fools, ...

— Thackeray • Anthony Trollope

... them to Lynn and Yarmouth; my friends in Yorkshire and the North tell me they will send what men they can lay hands on;" but at the same time he hopes that Locker, then Commander-in-chief at the Nore, will not turn away any who from other districts may present themselves for the "Agamemnon." Coming mainly from the same neighborhood gave to the crew a certain homogeneousness of character, affording ground for appeal to local pride, a most ...

— The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) - The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain • A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

... said Gabriel. "I ought to have foreseen that. Give me that dagger and turn away; I am young and my arm will ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... eagerness he presses forward, but his foot strikes against a stone and arouses the echoes; whereupon the blessed Paul closes the door and makes it fast. For hours Anthony lay at the door craving admission. "I know I am not worthy," he humbly cries, "yet unless I see you I will not turn away. You welcome beasts, why not a man? If I fail, I will die ...

— A Short History of Monks and Monasteries • Alfred Wesley Wishart

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