Nevertheless, the studied avoidance of exaggeration has not had the happiest effect as a precedent in the art of Punch.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
We find beauty to-day in the avoidance of complexity, because, being at last really civilised, we are impatient of irrelevance even in dress.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
Somehow she could not bring herself to speak to him of the strange avoidance of her husband that was being practised by the rest of the station either.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell