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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

... she almost relented when she saw Teddy look into the sugar-bowl, and turn away without ...

— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 • Various

... contempt and dislike in which the free blacks are held in all the free states of America. They are deprived of their rights as citizens; and the white pauper who holds out his hand for charity ... will turn away from a negro or colored man with disdain."[299] DeTocqueville, in a remarkable characterization of the relations between the races based upon his observations in the early thirties, says that as the legal barriers fall away in the free States ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various

... get back to the well before the storm is upon us. It is useless to look for shelter, for the dunes are too flat to protect us from the wind. And now the storm sweeps down, and it becomes suffocatingly close and hot. The dromedaries seem uneasy, halt, and turn away from the wind. We dismount. The dromedaries lie down and bury their muzzles in the sand. We wrap up our heads in cloths and lie on our faces beside our animals to get some shelter between them and the ground. And so we ...

— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin

... am the Rossmore woman! Listen, Mr. Ryder. Don't turn away from me. Go to Washington on behalf of my father, and I promise you I will never see ...

— The Lion and The Mouse - A Story Of American Life • Charles Klein

... dreams, in his waking hours, who, as it were, had covered the rest of the world from his sight, or, at least, had cast a veil over it, his excitement was so intense and his heart beat so violently against his ribs that he had to turn away to keep his countenance. Even after the lapse of several seconds, it was difficult for him to believe that the enthralled, enslaved condition of his being was not noticeable to the people about him. But his excitement was by no ...

— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann

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