If the Portuguese were biassed by any particular views, another bias equally powerful may have
deflected the Frenchman from the truth, for they evidently write with contrary designs: the Portuguese, to make their mission seem more necessary, endeavoured to place in the strongest light the differences between the Abyssinian and Roman Church; but the great Ludolfus, laying hold on the advantage, reduced these later writers to prove their conformity.
It happened that there was a sharp turn in the river at the point where the slough entered, and the whole main current of the river was
deflected to the other bank.
As soon as they were through with me I hastened to the chariot of Dejah Thoris, where I found my poor Sola with her chest swathed in bandages, but apparently little the worse for her encounter with Sarkoja, whose dagger it seemed had struck the edge of one of Sola's metal breast ornaments and, thus
deflected, had inflicted but a slight flesh wound.
As he shook his head free from the commotion of the smitten water he heard the
deflected shot humming through the air ahead, and in an instant it was cracking and smashing the branches in the forest beyond.
But he was
deflected by the crash of the mainsheet blocks on the stout deck- traveller, as the mainsail, emptied of the wind and feeling the wind on the other side, swung crazily across above him.
The ape-man grinned and crossed quickly to the opposite side of the street, for his delicate senses indicated that at this point the breeze stirring through the city streets and
deflected by the opposite wall would now blow from the lion toward him as the beast passed, whereas if he remained upon the side of the street upon which he had been walking when he discovered the carnivore, his scent would have been borne to the nostrils of the animal, and Tarzan was sufficiently jungle-wise to realize that while he might deceive the eyes of man and beast he could not so easily disguise from the nostrils of one of the great cats that he was a creature of a different species from the inhabitants of the city, the only human beings, possibly, that Numa was familiar with.
With a bound he was upon his feet and at the same instant brought his other gun from his side and levelled it upon the man who had released him; but as his finger tightened upon the trigger Virginia Maxon sprang between them and grasping von Horn's wrist
deflected the muzzle of the gun just as the cartridge exploded.
"Rheumatism is still the great mystery," Doctor Emory said, returning to Daughtry as if
deflected by the thought.
The ball had evidently been fired from the opposite side of the room, for in one of the oaken beams overhead was a shallow blue dint, where it had struck a knot and been
deflected downward to the breast of its victim.
"You know," said the stranger, "that when any luminous rays cross a medium such as the air, they are
deflected out of the straight line; in other words, they undergo refraction.
Sweeping in from the ocean forty miles away, they were
deflected by Sonoma Mountain and shunted high into the air.
After all, she had perhaps purposely
deflected the conversation from her own affairs, and after the pain his last words had evidently caused her he felt that all he could do was to follow her lead.