His voice and his presence had Staved off a nightmare idea that was on the watch to seize on her-how if chance had brought Sally across this unsuspected relation of hers, and events had forced a full declaration of their kinship?
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
For the first time this year the sun had a touch of warmth in it-though patches of snow still Staved white under the shelter of the banks-and the sky was blue, and the light glinted on wet tree-trunks and in the furrows of the new-ploughed earth.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Besides attending to the wants of the shipwrecked mariners, as they had undertaken, they had employed a number of the resident fishermen, with their boats, to look after the wreck now lying dry upon a ledge of rocks, with her bottom Staved in, by whom every article of value on board had been saved.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton