His instinct would not permit him to attack her, while her persistence would not permit him to ignore her.
Thus it was he learned the law, and ere he left the domain of the chickens, he had learned to ignore their existence.
Some further elaborations are desirable, but we can ignore them for the present.
* The application of this distinction to motion raises complications due to relativity, but we may ignore these for our present purposes.
The young man, although he could not
ignore his companion's unsociable instincts, was fidgety.
He pictured himself looking out for Miss Wilkinson, the embarrassment of going up to her and asking if it were she (and he might so easily address the wrong person and be snubbed), and then the difficulty of knowing whether in the train he ought to talk to her or whether he could
ignore her and read his book.
The woman whose immovable composure had conquered Grace Roseberry's utmost insolence in the hour of her triumph--the woman who, without once flinching, had faced every other consequence of her resolution to
ignore Mercy's true position in the house--quailed for the first time when she found herself face to face with the very person for who m she had suffered and sacrificed so much.
Hilbery was impervious to their discomfort, or chose to
ignore it, or thought it high time that the subject was changed, for she did nothing but talk about Shakespeare's tomb.
Striking through the thought of his dear ones was sound which he could neither
ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith's hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality.
It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions: conspiring to
ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.
For nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world; which while pauselessly active in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its peace, and
ignores you, though you dig foundations for cathedrals.
"We want to make sure our roads across the county are even safer and are asking motorists to work with us and make sure they do not
ignore these signs.