Finally, he saw her, spared somehow in the midst of the destruction that rained around him.

Thus far he had remained at his mother's side with the irrational hope that even though he had been unable to save her from the bullet, he would somehow spare her from the indignity yet to come.

Sometimes when I knocked, on Imogen's door, she called, back, "Not now," meaning that she did not wish to stroll on deck, or that she was racked with seasickness, which somehow spared me.

This was the death he wanted; he just wished he could somehow spare Ylena's body from being mistreated in the process.

As the crisis faced by the township ratchets to ever higher degrees of peril, so Jacob, somehow spared the sickness that is rapidly carrying off his friends and neighbors, finds himself thrust into the center of events.

"Thank you, sir, but had I been thinking quickly from the start I might have avoided this and somehow spared those men."

It is a proud old sagging galleon of a neighborhood, spared somehow from the tweeness that infects other Alsatian towns with similar gingerbread architecture.

You think he's somehow sparing Sheila Jacques?

They saw two other nearby churches destroyed, those congregations somehow spared while funerals for Goshen went on all week and the obituaries filled an entire page in the local paper.

In the middle of the most violent a7legretto, they could somehow spare a note to flip up their tankards and a quart would be gone.