Sentence examples for were drawn aside from inspiring English sources

The curtains of his bed were drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand … and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you … The story is so bleak, too.

Muscles were drawn aside from the skull and atlas, and the occipital-atlantoidal membrane was carefully retracted from the cisterna dura.

Occasionally, a curtain might have been used to augment the scenic effect, being drawn aside to permit upstage action.

Toby Young, who had offered me a tour of the premises, kept being drawn aside by workers with questions about the height of a dado rail.

The sliding caisson is usually housed in a recess, or camber, at the side of the entrance and can be drawn aside or hauled across with winch and wire rope gear to open and close the entrance.

As reference, matching level diagrams, modified from Paxinos et al. (2012), are drawn aside.

Those who wish to leave the EU and take the UK on its own separate way should also recall that on each occasion over the past 200 years when we have thought we could stand aside, we were drawn back into Europe's conflicts.

Moments of pluck and admirable endurance aside, both bouts were drawn inevitably towards a single victor and a simple truth: the two did not belong in the same ring.

Elegant architects' plans for the building's refurbishment were drawn up some years ago, but put aside when money got tight.

Aside from the occasional reference, almost all of his examples were drawn from accounts of plague in Asia and the Mediterranean.

In the long term, however, the city officials say the Gypsy community cannot stay, and plans have been drawn up to set aside a new area for the Gypsies to move to.