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Definition of Diversions
1. diversion [n] - See also: diversion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diversions
Literary usage of Diversions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1873)
"I suppose I should have to add, though, ' by way of motto, " And in short it led
to the very Mag's ' " diversions. Old Saying. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"THE diversions OF PURLEY.* WE remember perfectly our boyish disappointment in
first making acquaintance with the well-known work of Home Tooke. ..."
3. A portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1807)
"PHE diversions of the field are usually followed by people,, ... Those, also,
who attend these diversions, are so numerous, and their rank and station and ..."
4. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1807)
"SECTION I. diversions of the field—diversions of the jield forbidden—General ...
J- HE diversions of the field are usually followed by people, ..."
5. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"diversions at court—The Spaniards surprise Amiens—Rosny contrives the means of
retaking this place—He is put at the head of the council cf-finances in the ..."
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