UNDER NOTE IX.—VERBS OF PREVENTING.
"The annulling power of the constitution prevented that enactment from becoming a law."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Which prevents the manner from being brief."—Id. "This close prevents them from bearing forward as nominatives."—Rush cor. "Because this prevents it from growing drowsy."—Formey cor. "Yet this does not prevent him from being great."—Id. "To prevent it from being insipid."—Id. "Or whose interruptions did not prevent its continuance." Or thus: "Whose interruptions did not prevent it from being continued."—Id. "This by no means prevents them from being also punishments."—Wayland cor. "This hinders them not from being also, in the strictest sense, punishments."—Id. "The noise made by the rain and wind, prevented them from being heard."—Goldsmith cor. "He endeavoured to prevent it from taking effect."—Id. "So sequestered as to prevent them from being explored."—Jane West cor. "Who prevented her from making a more pleasant party."—Same. "To prevent us from being tossed about by every wind of doctrine."—Same. "After the infirmities of age prevented him from bearing his part of official duty."—R. Adam cor. "To prevent splendid trifles from passing for matters of importance."—Kames cor. "Which prevents him from exerting himself to any good purpose."—Beattie cor. "The nonobservance of this rule very frequently prevents us from being punctual in the performance of our duties."—Todd cor. "Nothing will prevent him from being a student, and possessing the means of study."—Id. "Does the present accident hinder you from being honest and brave?"—Collier cor. "The e is omitted to prevent two Ees from coming together."—Fowle cor. "A pronoun is used for, or in place of, a noun,—to prevent a repetition of the noun."—Sanborn cor. "Diversity in the style relieves the ear, and prevents it from being tired with the frequent recurrence of the rhymes."—Campbell cor.; also Murray. "Timidity and false shame prevent us from opposing vicious customs."—Mur. et al. cor. "To prevent them from being moved by such."—Campbell cor. "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents it from taking place."—Priestley cor. "Which prevents us from making a progress towards perfection."—Sheridan cor. "This method of distinguishing words, must prevent any regular proportion of time from being settled."—Id. "That nothing but affectation can prevent it from always taking place."—Id. "This did not prevent John from being acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy." Or: "Notwithstanding this, John was acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy."—Henry, Webster, Sanborn, and Fowler cor.