warding-off

In a dramatic turn, Silko writes of coming upon a piece of construction equipment down in a wash, the kind of yellow machine on which Abbey encouraged desert dwellers to practice unauthorized maintenance, and of battling it by painting warding-off symbols taught to her by those Star Beings.

A novelist explores her desert habitat Post 2010

In a dramatic turn, Silko writes of coming upon a piece of construction equipment down in a wash, the kind of yellow machine on which Abbey encouraged desert dwellers to practice unauthorized maintenance, and of battling it by painting warding-off symbols taught to her by those Star Beings.

A novelist explores her desert habitat Post 2010

Marty started lifting his hands in the universal warding-off gesture, as if flesh and bone could stop a bullet.

30 Days Of Night TIM LIBBON 2010

It was a warding-off stance, the icy pose on a sarcophagus.

The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

It was a warding-off stance, the icy pose on a sarcophagus.

The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

He had also come to but he held his hands before him in a warding-off gesture. was a mask of dread.

Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

He barely had time to make a warding-off motion with his hands.

Conan the Indomitable Perry, Steve 1989

But it hadn't been against _their_ capacity to put two and two together that she had instinctively thrown up that warding-off arm, which hadn't at all warded off attention, but rather drawn it hard and scrutinizing, in spite of those down-dropped sharp eyes.

The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

There was only a frightened little pleading, a warding-off, as of some unknown, threatening danger.

The Tangled Threads 1894

Stimulus packages, industry friendly monetary policies and massive liquidity injections, time and again by the central banks of many countries were unsuccessful in warding-off this problem, which had snow-balled into a global crisis.

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