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Meanings of prevent the duel in English

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Usage of prevent the duel in English
1
If she could reach the scene in time, she might prevent the duel.
Mavericks
2
You must prevent the duel somehow, for mylord Edouard is a dangerous swordsman.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
3
I suppose it's up to me to prevent the duel.
The Boy Allies on the Firing Line; Or, Twelve Days Battle Along ...
4
You will prevent the duel, will you not?
Cosmopolis — Volume 3
5
She was trying to prevent the duel.
Captain Macklin: His Memoirs
6
We were trying to prevent the duel.
Captain Macklin: His Memoirs
7
He rushed back with his evidence to Christophe, thinking that he could in that way prevent the duel.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
8
It was to prevent the duel.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
9
Now you will understand my uncle's reasons for so strenuously desiring to prevent the duel at St. Germain.
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sie...
10
Charles II endeavoured to prevent the duel, not from any regard to public morality, but from fear for the life of his favourite.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
11
Could he not have prevented the duel?
Jacqueline — Volume 3
12
They would have prevented the duel!
Castle Craneycrow
13
"But," interposed the abbe, "do not be uneasy; she will prevent the duel."
Ursula
14
"Your Eminence might easily have prevented the duel."
Saracinesca
15
"I promise, madame, to prevent the duel; you may feel perfectly easy,-butI must request you to leave me this letter."
Ursula
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"I have no apology to offer," exclaimed the prince, loudly, "and I am unwilling to prevent the duel from taking its course.
Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel
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