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  • I wrote out the formulas for some of them almost instantaneously and could tell at a glance that the rest of them were divergent.†   (source)
  • No matter how widely our paths may have diverged for the rest of the day, we overlapped again and again at our appointed hour and place.†   (source)
  • Each lived a distinct style, to divergent ends.†   (source)
  • When the workingpeople began leaving their houses, the daybreak boys diverged, Mars Bar to the East End, Maniac to wherever.†   (source)
  • So when she lay in the dark listening to Fiona begin her nightlong snoring—she slept on her back—Briony already sensed that the parallel life, which she could imagine so easily from her visits to Cambridge as a child to see Leon and Cecilia, would soon begin to diverge from her own.†   (source)
  • With a divergence test, obviously there isn't a single right answer.†   (source)
  • Two roads diverged in a yellow wood … He moved on to the next desk.†   (source)
  • Their paths diverged more and more as they flew, and where Bernard made a clumsy, crunching landing and bounce on his wall, Alai did a glancing triple bounce on three surfaces near the corner that left him most of his speed and sent him flying off at a surprising angle.†   (source)
  • As they leveled out, their minds began to diverge, becoming distinct personalities again.†   (source)
  • Their paths diverge and both leap from about twenty feet away, one jumping at Henri, the other coming at me.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they do not respond to questions and when they do the responses are little better than the grunts or divergent answers one receives from slow children.†   (source)
  • Our paths, which had crossed so suddenly and so powerfully in a life-changing encounter for both of us, were about to diverge.†   (source)
  • Not the Babel event-which most people consider to be a myth-but the fact that languages tend to diverge.†   (source)
  • When word got to my family, I faced divergent pressures: I should be responsible and have this child.†   (source)
  • Minute by minute they're beginning to diverge from each other.†   (source)
  • The result was that students often got the best of our divergent approaches (and they certainly got role models on how to work with people different from themselves).†   (source)
  • A CONFLUENCE OF PATHS Two roads diverged in the middle of my life, I heard a wise man say I took the road less traveled by And that's made the difference every night and every day —Larry Norman (with apologies to Robert Frost) March unleashed a torrent of rainfall after an abnormally dry winter.†   (source)
  • They spoke of themselves, of their divergent lives, of the incredible coincidence of their lying naked in a dark cabin on a stranded boat when reason told them they had time only for death.†   (source)
  • All his letters show is an enormous confusion of contradictions and incongruities and divergences and exceptions to any rule he formulated about the things he observed.†   (source)
  • Wherever the pth diverged she took the wider one.†   (source)
  • Our paths diverged.†   (source)
  • And in their divergent reactions to these shattering events, my parents gradually set in motion the largely separate lives they would lead from that point on.†   (source)
  • Near the quarry, the dirt road diverged, and to the right the general prisoners trooped off to the rock quarry.†   (source)
  • One end of the thing was pressed into the bank, but along its length it diverged, sticking out slightly into the stream.†   (source)
  • Through well-tended gardens beyond her patio, narrow stone paths diverge.†   (source)
  • The word seems unduly fiery when one remembers the smiling, insouciant manner of his divergences from the conventional type; yet he was inveterately himself, and not some schoolmaster's or tailor's or barber's version of Gray Stoddard; and in this, though Johnnie did not know it, lay the strength of his charm for her.†   (source)
  • Your family's divergence from humanity is much more interesting.†   (source)
  • Pollard and Woolf returned to the United States, where racing had been relegalized, and their careers began to diverge.†   (source)
  • Jennifer Anne asked, gamely allowing this divergence from her scripted dinner conversation.†   (source)
  • Lillian Lebel, an employee in the Gagnons' travel agency, remembers the divergent outlooks of Rene and Pauline: "Pauline loved the fact that he was famous.†   (source)
  • Even though they've walked several steps down diverging paths, Barbara and Cedric talk regularly.†   (source)
  • But people tend to freak out when something diverges from their expectations.†   (source)
  • Alternate universes, divergent realities, time distortions, whatever.†   (source)
  • It was here that Cesar and the boys' paths diverged.†   (source)
  • Many were filled with wildly divergent descriptions from people who claimed to have seen the man known as the Chameleon, but among the most reliable was a common reference to the catlike mobility of the "assassin."†   (source)
  • Between Jefferson and Adams there was no discussion of their diverging views.†   (source)
  • At its highest point, the pass forked like a pair of tight pants into two diverging trails.†   (source)
  • Somehow, through caution, luck, and quick recoveries we managed to escape direct suspicion and live our two diverging lives for the next six years without the sense of peril becoming sharp.†   (source)
  • Those urges to belong, divergent as they are, can live together more easily if we, Britain and the Irish Republic, can live closer together too.†   (source)
  • Once they reached level ground, a lane diverged from the road and curved toward the shoreline.†   (source)
  • When the Halfinaester appeared on deck, yawning, the dwarf was writing down what he recalled concerning the mating habits of dragons, on which subject Barth, Munkun, and Thomax held markedly divergent views.†   (source)
  • The critics denounced the government's virtual ban on discussions of ethnicity that diverged from the official line -- a ploy, they said, to cover up systematic discrimination against Hutus, which was bound to lead to more violence someday.†   (source)
  • Voluminously and wittily, and animated by more than a little Anglophobia, Mencken demonstrated that our language began to diverge from the mother tongue almost as soon as the first colonists arrived in North America.†   (source)
  • As Rafi grew more competent, his passion for climbing and Alessandro's diverged.†   (source)
  • Very notably, with no exceptions that I know of, his experiences in the apparently divergent fields of clinical, social, and newsstand psychology had been costly for him, as though the places where he was examined had been uniformly alive with either highly contagious traumas or just plain old-fashioned germs.†   (source)
  • Every day he punched cards, punched and punched, trying to avoid instability, divergence, distortion.†   (source)
  • But since morning, they had lived in diverging worlds.†   (source)
  • Now this is where the stories offered by the boy and the State begin to diverge slightly.†   (source)
  • "But mainly, Mr. MacLain, you should remember to keep off rich food," Miss Snowdie said, leading her husband down a divergent path.†   (source)
  • There was no divergence of method,   (source)
  • , then the gas flow in the divergent section would go supersonic, a very good thing.†   (source)
  • The three diverging streams from antiquity joined into one great river.†   (source)
  • But he couldn't hide his own Divergence, and that killed him.†   (source)
  • Then theDragon Wing tacked port, diverging from the current in Uthar's bid for the open sea.†   (source)
  • Feeling about, Max realized that the tunnel had diverged.†   (source)
  • "It means," Matthew says, "that you are not Divergent.†   (source)
  • When they emerged on the other side of the wall, Max saw that the ramp had diverged.†   (source)
  • "I still don't see why they would risk that many Divergent," I say.†   (source)
  • Ever since Tori told me the word for what I am—Divergent—I have wanted to know what it means.†   (source)
  • You have, in other words, the appearance of a Divergent without actually being one.†   (source)
  • And here is the simplest answer I have received: "Divergent" means that my genes are healed.†   (source)
  • Or, as you currently know them …. the Divergent.†   (source)
  • In my experience, most Divergent can't resist the truth serum.†   (source)
  • "Apparently you display some Divergent characteristics and you don't display others," she says.†   (source)
  • They faked my death because I was Divergent, and Jeanine had started killing the Divergent.†   (source)
  • They're both Divergent who had to fake their own deaths to survive.†   (source)
  • Marcus was Divergent—genetically pure, just like me.†   (source)
  • I don't owe the people outside this city anything, whether I am Divergent or not.†   (source)
  • "The Erudite representative had just begun to kill the Divergent, of course," he says.†   (source)
  • "Divergent," Tris says to her, pointing at her own head.†   (source)
  • But the Divergent were still being killed when I was an initiate.†   (source)
  • Amar was the first person who noticed that I was Divergent, and he helped me to hide it.†   (source)
  • As we know, no one is capable of resisting death serum, not even the Divergent.†   (source)
  • Seems he passed on the idea of killing off the Divergent to her, right before his heart attack.†   (source)
  • There's a chance I'm not actually Divergent?†   (source)
  • That we should send people outside when the city has a large Divergent population?†   (source)
  • We follow him into the room where I found out I was not Divergent.†   (source)
  • The highest proportion of Divergent was among the factionless, not Abnegation.†   (source)
  • I don't belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent.†   (source)
  • And this means that the one good thing my father had—his Divergence—didn't reach me.†   (source)
  • I thought that "Divergent" explained everything that I am and everything that I could be.†   (source)
  • "We don't see that many Divergent resisting truth serum.†   (source)
  • "So what you're saying is that if we're not Divergent, we're damaged," Caleb says.†   (source)
  • She also told him that after school she had often spent long hours in the notions shop with Transito Ariza, performing prodigious feats of embroidery, for she had been a notable teacher, and that if she had not continued seeing Florentino Ariza with the same frequency, it had not been through choice but because of how their lives had diverged.†   (source)
  • Divergence tests are every bit as challenging as convergence tests, and if you don't believe that, I encourage you to pause and try the brick-and-blanket test right now.†   (source)
  • Our stories are obviously specific to our two lives, but I hope they will illuminate the crucial inflection points in every life, the sudden moments of decision where our paths diverge and our fates are sealed.†   (source)
  • I went for a walk in the hospital parking lot, which was busy and lifted my spirits with all those converging and diverging intentions, even though some of the people in the parking lot were visibly ill or injured.†   (source)
  • And that afterward, languages have always had an innate tendency to diverge and become mutually incomprehensible-that this tendency is, as he put it, coiled like a serpent around the human brainstem.†   (source)
  • But what we ought to aim at is less the ascertainment of resemblances and differences than the recognition of likenesses hidden under apparent divergences.†   (source)
  • The two men's paths diverged over time.†   (source)
  • Write down as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects: 1. a brick 2. a blanket This is an example of what's called a "divergence test" (as opposed to a test like the Raven's, which asks you to sort through a list of possibilities and converge on the right answer).†   (source)
  • If the gases reach sonic velocity at the throat, they will go supersonic in the diverging part of the nozzle, producing maximum thrust.†   (source)
  • And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added.†   (source)
  • If the river continued through the throat at less than sonic speed--that is to say, less than the speed of sound--it became compacted in the divergent section, bound in turmoil, and inefficient.†   (source)
  • A Swedish engineer, Carl Gustav De Laval, had shown that by adding a divergent passage to a converging nozzle (one that necked down to a narrow throat) the expansion of the fluid (or gas) coming out of the throat would be transformed into jet kinetic energy.†   (source)
  • Quentin and I still weren't quite ready to work the equations for a De Laval nozzle in my book, but I got the machinists working, instead, on a new nozzle with deeper countersink cuts, hoping we might acquire at least some of the attributes of the converging-diverging design.†   (source)
  • Their lives were diverging because of responsibilities to others, and it suddenly seemed cruelly unfair to Adrienne.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, but something still gets lost in translation," said Max, stopping to read the new sign that had been erected where the road diverged.†   (source)
  • I remember," said Max, thinking back to his first day at Rowan, when he'd spied his strange new roommate inexplicably burying a coin where a small side path diverged into the wood.†   (source)
  • DIVERGENCE The butcher sat slumped against the left-hand wall, both arms chained to an iron ring above his head.†   (source)
  • If the trends we have identified stay on their present paths, we can expect to see more diversity in regional speech patterns, new dialects becoming stronger (as in California), some disappearing (as in Ocracoke), and some continuing to diverge from standard American (as African American English).†   (source)
  • The next two, though, are ticklish-one dealing with various series equations and whether their functions would converge or diverge; on the other, he needs to locate the power series in two functions.†   (source)
  • And at once he saw that the little boy was special, that with such a husky father and delicate mother, he, continually translating between divergent qualities, was poised to become wise, even if, at only nine, he looked like a Turkish wrestler.†   (source)
  • The scenes diverged from established fact, however, and immersed him in imaginary situations constructed piecemeal from fragments of what had actually been.†   (source)
  • One could speculate that living and working in big immigrant cities like New York, with neighbors and colleagues who spoke anything but correct or fluent English, may have made Americans more tolerant of divergent forms of speech, at least as a source of humor.†   (source)
  • These insights led Bailey and Cukor -Avila to conclude that urban black speech appeared to be diverging from rather than converging with white speech, as a result of the great black migration to the North.†   (source)
  • When I found out I was Divergent, I thought of it as a secret power that no one else possessed, something that made me different, better, stronger.†   (source)
  • I relax, and I no longer feel like some kind of Divergent soldier, defying serums and government leaders alike.†   (source)
  • I'm curious to see if you're actually Divergent, or if your simulation awareness just makes it look like you are."†   (source)
  • I may be angry with her for fighting me in Jeanine's laboratory, but she's still Tori, the woman who guarded the secret of my Divergence.†   (source)
  • "And Tobias can resist simulations, but he doesn't display some of the characteristics we've come to expect of the Divergent.†   (source)
  • Just after my mother died, I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me.†   (source)
  • Now, after comparing my DNA to Tobias's on a computer screen, I realize that "Divergent" doesn't mean as much as I thought it did.†   (source)
  • Finding none, she says, "So when Edith Prior said we were supposed to determine the cause of Divergence and come out and help you, that was …."†   (source)
  • David said the Divergent are dying and someone has to stop it, because that's a waste of our best genetic material.†   (source)
  • " 'Divergent' is the name we decided to give to those who have reached the desired level of genetic healing," says David.†   (source)
  • But they didn't need the Divergent to march out of our city like an army to fight injustice and save everyone, as Edith suggested.†   (source)
  • She promised me she wouldn't go to her death in the Erudite compound when Jeanine demanded the sacrifice of a Divergent, and then she did it anyway.†   (source)
  • Marking him as Divergent, probably.†   (source)
  • The combination of healed genes and simulation awareness genes is just what I expected to see from a Divergent.†   (source)
  • The small letters beside my name are "AD." and there's a dot there too, though I now know I'm not actually Divergent.†   (source)
  • Jeanine told me that the highest proportion of Divergent—the genetically pure—in any faction was in Abnegation.†   (source)
  • She came from the fringe, and they brought her here, and she lived here for a couple years, then went into the city to stop the Erudite from killing the Divergent.†   (source)
  • I think of my father, a born Erudite, not Divergent; a man who could not help but be smart. choosing Abnegation, engaging in a lifelong struggle against his own nature, and ultimately fulfilling it.†   (source)
  • My ancestor, and this is the inheritance she passed to me: freedom from the factions, and the knowledge that my Divergent identity is more important than I could have known.†   (source)
  • "You, for example, have displayed extraordinary serum resistance—most of the Divergent aren't as capable of resisting serums as you are," Matthew says.†   (source)
  • We believe that even if we have not reached that Divergent population size, the situation in our city has become dire enough to send people outside the fence anyway.†   (source)
  • In a way, it feels like we are leaving each other to our grief, his over the loss of his Divergence and whatever hopes he had for Marcus's trial, and mine, finally, over the loss of my parents.†   (source)
  • And the Divergent are not.†   (source)
  • Matthew continues, "The only problem with the genetic tracker is that being aware during simulations and resisting serums doesn't necessarily mean that a person is Divergent, it's just a strong correlation.†   (source)
  • Some of the rescued Divergent needed some distance from your experiment—it was too hard for them to watch the people they had once known and loved going about their lives, so they were trained to integrate into life outside the Bureau.†   (source)
  • We didn't expect the leader of Erudite to start hunting them down—or for the Abnegation to even tell her what they were—and contrary to what Edith Prior said, we never really intended for you to send a Divergent army out to us.†   (source)
  • "We believe in following the guidance of the city's founders, which has been expressed in two ways: the formation of the factions, and the Divergent mission expressed by Edith Prior, to send people outside the fence to help whoever is out there once we have a large Divergent population.†   (source)
  • She delivered a skillful manipulation in that video, which was intended to keep us contained and dedicated to the vision of the Bureau—the world outside the city is badly broken, and the Divergent need to come out here and heal it.†   (source)
  • I think that's a pretty sick way to put it, but David doesn't mean it that way—he just means that if it wasn't the Divergent dying, we wouldn't intervene until a certain level of destruction, but since it's them it has to be taken care of now.†   (source)
  • "So a few months ago, when the Abnegation were on the verge of causing that destruction and instability by revealing Edith Prior's video to your city, the Bureau probably thought, better that the Abnegation should suffer a great loss—even at the expense of several Divergent—than the whole city suffer a great loss.†   (source)
  • He was Divergent.†   (source)
  • Because he's Divergent.†   (source)
  • I'm not Divergent.†   (source)
  • Divergent,†   (source)
  • Brownsville was fading from his mind, becoming soon a troubled nebulous land, alien and diverging.†   (source)
  • A row ensued, the first of many occasioned by the divergence of our tastes in haberdashery.†   (source)
  • He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times.†   (source)
  • Another great help, where the parties concerned are male and female, is the divergence of view about Unselfishness which we have built up between the sexes.†   (source)
  • This interval, too great to be closed by all the infinite gradations of popularized "modernism" and "modernistic" kitsch, corresponds in turn to a social interval, a social interval that has always existed in formal culture, as elsewhere in civilized society, and whose two termini converge and diverge in fixed relation to the increasing or decreasing stability of the given society.†   (source)
  • That was the first time the twins' interest had ever diverged, and Brent was resentful of his brother's attentions to a girl who seemed to him not at all remarkable.†   (source)
  • They knew instinctively what they were about, as did the Wilkeses, though in widely divergent ways, and in them there was no such conflict as frequently raged in Scarlett's bosom where the blood of a softvoiced, overbred Coast aristocrat mingled with the shrewd, earthy blood of an Irish peasant.†   (source)
  • Not the swarming of the divergent, parallel and finally coalescent armies, but a more inaccessible, more intimate agitation that they in some manner prefigured.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly she diverged and began to talk about some personal matter.†   (source)
  • The reflection which resulted from this refraction was, necessarily, divergent and perverted.†   (source)
  • We were taking the course I had begun with, and from which I had diverged in the mist.†   (source)
  • They proceeded along the road together till they reached the town, and their paths diverged.†   (source)
  • By diverging a little I can make my way home the same as yours.†   (source)
  • I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her.†   (source)
  • He diverged to the right before ascending the hill with the single purpose of gaining, on his way, a glimpse of Arabella that should not come into the reckoning of regular appointments.†   (source)
  • Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.†   (source)
  • However, I hope I shall not interfere with the proper sequence of my narrative too much, if I diverge for a moment at this point, in order to explain the mutual relations between General Epanchin's family and others acting a part in this history, at the time when we take up the thread of their destiny.†   (source)
  • Thus they slowly diverged toward the west, drawing farther away from the remainder of the boats in their line.†   (source)
  • But as he spoke, he brought together, in a single breath, categories that until now Hans Castorp had been accustomed to think of as widely divergent.†   (source)
  • However disillusioned we may be about women, however we may regard the possession of even the most divergent types as an invariable and monotonous experience, every detail of which is known and can be described in advance, it still becomes a fresh and stimulating pleasure if the women concerned be—or be thought to be—so difficult as to oblige us to base our attack upon some unrehearsed incident in our relations with them, as was originally for Swann the arrangement of the cattleyas.†   (source)
  • At the least we can promise ourselves that pleasure which is wickedly said to be in sinning, for a literary sin the divergence will be.†   (source)
  • The propeller turned without a check, as though its beat had been part of the scheme of a safe universe; and on each side of the Patna two deep folds of water, permanent and sombre on the unwrinkled shimmer, enclosed within their straight and diverging ridges a few white swirls of foam bursting in a low hiss, a few wavelets, a few ripples, a few undulations that, left behind, agitated the surface of the sea for an instant after the passage of the ship, subsided splashing gently, calmed…†   (source)
  • But he felt less and less hopeful with each failure, and presently began to turn off into diverging avenues at sheer random, in desperate hope of finding the one that was wanted.†   (source)
  • On their part they saw a great difference in him, a growing divergence from the Angel Clare of former times.†   (source)
  • Summer Street lay deep in the woods, and she had stopped where a footpath diverged from the highroad.†   (source)
  • The sisters were alike as little girls, but at the time of the Wilcox episode their methods were beginning to diverge; the younger was rather apt to entice people, and, in enticing them, to be herself enticed; the elder went straight ahead, and accepted an occasional failure as part of the game.†   (source)
  • I hear Mrs. Trenor wants to build out a new ball-room, and that divergence from Gus on that point keeps her at Bellomont.†   (source)
  • He was about thirty-five years old, broad-shouldered, stout, considerably shorter than the two men across from him, so that he had to tip his head back to look them in the eye, and extraordinarily pale— there was almost a translucence, even phosphorescence, to his pallor, and it was enhanced by dark, glowing eyes, black eyebrows, and a rather long beard that already showed a few gray strands and ended in two diverging points.†   (source)
  • With the woman's instinct to hide she diverged hastily— "I should have had four years more of your heart than I can ever have now.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Fisher's unconventionality was, after all, a merely superficial divergence from an inherited social creed, while the manners of the Gormer circle represented their first attempt to formulate such a creed for themselves.†   (source)
  • Every time that he returned hither he was conscious of this divergence, and since he had last shared in the Vicarage life it had grown even more distinctly foreign to his own than usual.†   (source)
  • This too familiar intonation, less than four years earlier, had brought to her ears expressions of such divergent purpose that her heart became quite sick at the irony of the contrast.†   (source)
  • Could it be possible, he continued, that eyes which as they gazed never expressed any divergence from what the tongue was telling, were yet ever seeing another world behind her ostensible one, discordant and contrasting?†   (source)
  • Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well-disposed or harmless errands.†   (source)
  • Continuing then to pursue his walk in silence, I ventured to recall him to the point whence he had abruptly diverged — "Did you leave the balcony, sir," I asked, "when Mdlle.†   (source)
  • When the lad ended she began, precisely in the same words, and ranted on without hitch or divergence till she too reached the end.†   (source)
  • Five corridors diverged like the rays of a star, and the walls, dug into niches, which were arranged one above the other in the shape of coffins, showed that they were at last in the catacombs.†   (source)
  • Berthier wrote to his Emperor (we know how far commanding officers allow themselves to diverge from the truth in describing the condition of an army) and this is what he said: I deem it my duty to report to Your Majesty the condition of the various corps I have had occasion to observe during different stages of the last two or three days' march.†   (source)
  • Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.†   (source)
  • An association unites the efforts of minds which have a tendency to diverge in one single channel, and urges them vigorously towards one single end which it points out.†   (source)
  • They then formed themselves in a circle around a warrior, who appeared to possess the chief authority; and at a given signal the whole array moved slowly and cautiously from the centre in straight and consequently in diverging lines.†   (source)
  • The divergence to Mellstock delayed Farfrae's return very nearly the two hours of Henchard's estimate.†   (source)
  • For the rest, there were six persons present, and consequently six sections of the party were represented, four of which had strong but divergent Anarchist opinions.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER I DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK—AN INCIDENT When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.†   (source)
  • Then, moreover, as regarded his unceremonious ejectment, the late Surveyor was not altogether ill-pleased to be recognised by the Whigs as an enemy; since his inactivity in political affairs—his tendency to roam, at will, in that broad and quiet field where all mankind may meet, rather than confine himself to those narrow paths where brethren of the same household must diverge from one another—had sometimes made it questionable with his brother Democrats whether he was a friend.†   (source)
  • Shtcherbatsky moved away from them, and Kitty, going up to a card table, sat down, and, taking up the chalk, began drawing diverging circles over the new green cloth.†   (source)
  • If the Countess objected to argument Isabel at this moment had as little taste for it, and she put out her hand to Pansy with a pleasant sense that such a gesture committed her to nothing that would admit of a divergence of views.†   (source)
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