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Usage examples:

• Thus far, by avoiding the pain attendant on fashionable feet, and enjoying the free use of their limbs, they might be said to have the advantage of the city ladies.

  - "Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton", John Barrow.

• I thought that I was avoiding them, not that they were avoiding me.

  - "The Jervaise Comedy", J. D. Beresford.

• The avoiding of them is not an object of any moment.

  - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.