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Definition of Divagating
1. divagate [v] - See also: divagate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divagating
Literary usage of Divagating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great House: A Story of Quiet Times by Stanley John Weyman (1919)
"He used the Beanstalk, too, and if his name had been John, a pretty thing might
have been raised upon it. But you're divagating, my dear," he continued, ..."
2. Microbes and Men by Robert Tuttle Morris (1915)
"Only one divagating branch among women (comprising the ones who approach the
masculine ... The other divagating branch among women has no interest in ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"But I am divagating. What 1 wanted to impress upon the reader was, that since
every one goes to Arran sooner or later, the chances are very great that he ..."
4. The Life of Whitelaw Reid by Royal Cortissoz (1921)
"When the insinuating Mr. Oakes Ames, the "Chicopee foundryman" of John Russell
Young's vigilant satire, went divagating around Congress, placing his Credit ..."
5. Blackstick Papers by Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1908)
"Other authors, less capable, indeed, write and rewrite their intentions, and then
find it impossible to keep to them; they go here and there divagating, ..."
6. All the Russias: Travels and Studies in Contemporary European Russia by Henry Norman (1903)
"... constraining obstinate climbers, circumventing the astutely divagating goat,
now dog-tired and sullen they are wending with the rest to the plain, ..."
7. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"Other authors, less capable indeed, write and re-write their intentions, and then
find it impossible to keep to them; they go here and there, divagating and ..."
8. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"Other authors, less capable indeed, write and re-write their intentions, and then
find it impossible to keep to them; they go here and there, divagating and ..."
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