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  • The nonpartisan fellowship also gave me the chance to learn from the other fellows, an impressively diverse and talented group from all over the country.   (source)
    diverse = varied
  • This diverse education continued for six years, when his father refused to support him any longer, until he "found" himself.   (source)
    diverse = unfocused (varied)
  • in less than a decade, little Clarkston, Georgia, became one of the most diverse communities in the country.   (source)
    diverse = varied
  • Rowan Township boasted a more diverse population that included snobbish fauns, willowy dryads, mischievous lutins, and solemn dvergar with braided beards.   (source)
    diverse = varied (differing)
  • Private First Class Paul Berlin had been assigned ... to the single largest unit in Vietnam, the Americal Division, whose area of operations, I Corps, constituted the largest and most diverse sector in the war zone.   (source)
    diverse = varied (having differences--such as different types of terrain or people or population centers)
  • We believe that God endows men with diverse gifts, and that human life depends for its fullness on their employment and enjoyment, but we are afraid to explore this belief too deeply.   (source)
    diverse = varied (different)
  • They are right in this much—that their own ingenuity is a faithful representative of that of the mass; but when the cunning of the individual felon is diverse in character from their own, the felon foils them, of course.   (source)
    diverse = different (varied)
  • By dint of long toil and creativity, the human race has built a splendid civilization, blossoming with a multitude of diverse cultures.†   (source)
  • By Diverse Means We Arrive at the Same End†   (source)
  • At his new trial, a racially diverse jury found him not guilty of murder, and he was freed.†   (source)
  • They  all spoke English when they talked to each other, or to the waiters, but the accents were as diverse as the gentlemen.†   (source)
  • The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.†   (source)
  • These diverse activities merged and mingled, sometimes with comical results.†   (source)
  • Of course, Grandmother would have complained bitterly about the party revelers—and about such a "sundry" guest list, given the diverse personalities and social stations of a typical Dan Needham cast; but Grandmother would, at least, have been occupied.†   (source)
  • Diverse.†   (source)
  • A diverse selection of flowering vines (to climb up the metal poles to the second story).†   (source)
  • We try very hard to be culturally diverse in our approach.†   (source)
  • The JAY C Foundation will be set up to support families willing to come together in a variety of situations and diverse circumstances.†   (source)
  • "The composition of the human species is infinitely more diverse than most humans suspect," she began.†   (source)
  • In languages as diverse as Welsh, Arabic, Chinese, English and Hebrew, there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its speakers.†   (source)
  • As a result of its investigation, the NIH said that to qualify for funding, all proposals for research on human subjects had to be approved by review boards--independent bodies made up of professionals and laypeople of diverse races, classes, and backgrounds--to ensure that they met the NIH's ethics requirements, including detailed informed consent.†   (source)
  • Maybe the food system should be diverse too.†   (source)
  • Africa has parasites so particular and diverse as to occupy every niche of the body:†   (source)
  • The guys who traveled from Bahrain with me were remarkably diverse, even by SEAL standards.†   (source)
  • And of course a diverse collection of guns.†   (source)
  • Modern women writers—as diverse as Anais Nin, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Iris Murdoch, and Edna O'Brien—ever since have investigated ways of writing about sex.†   (source)
  • Monocultures, like a field of corn, are susceptible to infections, but genetically diverse cultures, like a prairie, are extremely robust.†   (source)
  • While cities in the East expanded through immigration and became more diverse, Los Angeles became more homogenous and white.†   (source)
  • By virtue of their size and diverse content, these files contain so many potential keywords that they suck in any search engine that comes anywhere near them.†   (source)
  • He took down the faded pictures, except for the one of the physician arguing with Death for the nude body of a female patient, and the Hippocratic Oath printed in Gothic letters, and he hung in their place, next to his father's only diploma, the many diverse ones he himself had received with highest honors from various schools in Europe.†   (source)
  • The victims are racially diverse: Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics and Asians.†   (source)
  • The handful of sand looks uniform at first, but the longer we look at it the more diverse we find it to be.†   (source)
  • While offering to the Lord the results of Mr. Cowper's hallucination, or declaring it was Love that lifted her, Jean Louise shared the warmness that prevails among diverse individuals who find themselves in the same boat for one hour each week.†   (source)
  • And as our society becomes ever more diverse, more and more people bring their own immigrant experience to the reading.†   (source)
  • He touched teeming cities of insects frantically scurrying about their business, lizards and snakes hidden among warm rocks, diverse species of songbirds, and numerous small mammals.†   (source)
  • Together, we enjoyed learning about the diverse customs of other cultures.†   (source)
  • His purpose was to sum up what had been said and form some consensus among the diverse opinions.†   (source)
  • How weird it was that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole.†   (source)
  • Though extraordinarily diverse, these crimes all have a common trait: they were sins of information.†   (source)
  • For all these diverse problems, empowering women is part of the answer.†   (source)
  • But he quickly grew weary of the homogeneous population at the small, unworldly campus, and transferred to the more diverse University of South Dakota, in Vermillion, on a GI scholarship.†   (source)
  • Fetishism holds a fascinating array of diverse pleasures that you may be missing out on.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, Yale had to bend to accommodate new ways of thinking and learning from a more diverse student body.†   (source)
  • Then I would go into the attempt of the late medieval commentary to reconcile the diverse explanations of the commentaries.†   (source)
  • Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, later Carlos the assassin, had been trained in the American compound of Novgorod, where the streets were lined with American gas stations and grocery stores, boutiques and Burger Kings, and everyone spoke American English with diverse dialects-no Russian was allowed-and The possibles were thus narrowed to thirty-five, the hotel's register listing them as nine couples, four single women and thirteen single men.†   (source)
  • We both laughed then, kissed each other, and parted to our diverse toils.†   (source)
  • Thirty-nine percent of Teknologik's stock, the largest single block, was owned by Nellor et Fils, a Swiss holding company with extensive and diverse interests in drug research, medical research, medical publishing, general publishing, and the film and broadcasting industries.†   (source)
  • Our ties are already rich and diverse: -- the UK is the largest market for Irish goods.†   (source)
  • Fifty years from now, Dallas will be a cosmopolitan metropolis, home to a diverse population and a wide range of multinational corporations.†   (source)
  • I don't think there's any one set way, because America's so diverse.†   (source)
  • But then your tastes were always diverse.†   (source)
  • The two would spend hours debating issues as diverse as First Amendment rights and the relative merits of Pamela Anderson before and after cosmetic surgery.†   (source)
  • In a continental nation as big and brawling and diverse as ours, I don't know how else--except through politics--we can resolve our differences and live together.†   (source)
  • This is a very diverse list, but what happened to NYU?†   (source)
  • Men's abilities are diverse, creating another barrier to their agreeing on common interests.†   (source)
  • The humans were just as diverse, coming from a dozen different corporations that were involved with everything from subsystem design to logistical support.†   (source)
  • So Piedmont, Sedgwick, and I would form a strangely diverse triad when we assembled to discuss the future of the Yamacraw School.†   (source)
  • Momma made all of us, including Daddy, dress up like we're going to Christ Temple — not quite Easter formal but not "diverse church" casual.   (source)
    diverse = having different types of people
  • It is a diverse market that encourages many versions of the product.
    diverse = varied (in this case, made up of different tastes)
  • The superior tutor is prepared to adjust to diverse learning styles.
    diverse = varied (different)
  • They opposed an "at large" vote because the majority overwhelms the voice of a diverse minority.
    diverse = varied (in this case, of different ethnic groups and genders)
  • The overseas critics of fast food are far more diverse than America's old Soviet bloc adversaries.†   (source)
  • Typically larger than werewolves but considerably more diverse in their appearance.†   (source)
  • Most of us don't have particularly broad and diverse groups of friends.†   (source)
  • Remember, Medusa was filled with diverse and desperate men.†   (source)
  • Nor does prison even begin to address the root causes of crime, which are diverse and complex.†   (source)
  • But men's abilities are diverse, creating an insurmountable obstacle to equality of acquisitions.†   (source)
  • In Clarkston, even your basic parking-lot fight was super-diverse.†   (source)
  • The country is large with diverse responsibilities.†   (source)
  • So parents are plainly getting more diverse with names.†   (source)
  • Over the recent decades, a vast and diverse flock of parenting experts has arisen.†   (source)
  • A group's decision can be warped by diverse views, feelings, and interests.†   (source)
  • The use of trial by jury in civil cases in the States is diverse.†   (source)
  • If, at Gravesend Academy, The Voice had persuaded the majority of the faculty that his eccentricities and peculiarities were not only his individual rights but were inseparable from his generally acknowledged brilliance, the more diverse but also more specialized faculty at the University of New Hampshire were not interested in "the whole boy," not at all; they were not even a community, the university faculty, and they shared no general opinion that Owen Meany was brilliant, they…†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, with a resolute glance at the time, much as a seasoned sea captain when setting out on an extended journey will log the exact hour he sets sail from port, the Count plowed once again into the waves of the first meditation: "By Diverse Means We Arrive at the Same End."†   (source)
  • "Persuaders" called to her from raised platforms, seeking to entice her into the Moorish Palace with its room of mirrors, its optical illusions, and its eclectic wax museum, where visitors saw figures as diverse as Little Red Riding Hood and Marie Antoinette about to be guillotined.†   (source)
  • Adler's intention was to get houses out of the hands of the absentee slumlords and convert the Victorian district into a racially and economically diverse neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, this building was home to an astonishingly diverse array of artifacts—giant Buddhas, handwritten codices, poisoned darts from New Guinea, jewel-encrusted knives, a kayak made of baleen.†   (source)
  • The weapons attacking her were a diverse mix: antiques such as American carbines, Czech-style machine guns, Japanese Type-38 rifles; newer weapons such as standard-issue People's Liberation Army rifles and submachine guns, stolen from the PLA after the publication of the "August Editorial"; and even a few Chinese dadao swords and spears.†   (source)
  • What about an entire secret army, diverse, fragmented, and lethal, creeping through the mountains in Afghanistan pretending to be civilians?†   (source)
  • And Jesus, was it great to hear the English language again, just the everyday words, the diverse American accents, the familiarity.†   (source)
  • By tracing the diverse influences of fast food I hope to shed light not only on the workings of an important industry, but also on a distinctively American way of viewing the world.†   (source)
  • The amount of effort required to manage such an enormous and diverse country was tremendous, and the task never seemed finished; there was always more that needed doing.†   (source)
  • For over a decade, the name "Carlos" has been whispered in the back streets of such diverse cities as Paris, Teheran, Beirut, London, Cairo, and Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • In the Holy Quran, God tells us, "I created you into diverse nations and tribes that you may come to know one another.†   (source)
  • He could be visiting Bear Beinfeld, a popular sophomore who is Zayd's childhood friend and offers easy access to a more diverse, nonfreshman world.†   (source)
  • Dennis Baron wrote that the hearings reiterated the two arguments that have informed such discussions for two centuries: an insistence that English is the glue holding an ethnically diverse America together, and a fear that official-language legislation masks racial discrimination—in this case against Hispanic Americans.†   (source)
  • Elinor had some knowledge of this kind, and she wore her eyes red trying to glean more from diverse books upon the subject.†   (source)
  • They climbed back up into the sunlight to see a Bronx neighborhood that was just as busy and diverse as the one where they had first gone underground.†   (source)
  • She then moved on to work for Doubleday for the remainder of her nearly two decades in publishing, editing the books of people as diverse as Michael Jackson, Carly Simon, and Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, a Nobel laureate.†   (source)
  • Since then, women have led such diverse efforts as Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the pro- and anti-feminist movements.†   (source)
  • Vertovec proposed a simple three-step process for building connections between members of different cultures within a "super-diverse" society.†   (source)
  • He finally finds himself lost in a diverse crowd, swaying and singing in the front row next to Chiniqua.†   (source)
  • No, in future classes on more diverse and unfamiliar subjects, Cedric's advantage will certainly decrease, she decides.†   (source)
  • In a little more than a decade, the process of refugee resettlement had transformed Clarkston from a simple southern town into one of the most diverse communities in America.†   (source)
  • But, right now, his mathematical learning is not strong or diverse enough to compete, get a decent grade, and leave time for his other subjects.†   (source)
  • But this diverse army of experts now marched out a phalanx of hypotheses to explain the drop in crime.†   (source)
  • In 2007, a group of researchers led by the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam published a study detailing the results of surveys they had done with some thirty thousand residents of forty-one ethnically diverse communities in the United States.†   (source)
  • "Inhabitants of diverse communities tend to withdraw from collective life," the authors wrote, "to distrust their neighbors, regardless of the color of their skin, to withdraw even from close friends, to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, to volunteer less, give less to charity and work on community projects less often, to register to vote less, to agitate for social reform more, but have less faith that they can actually make a difference, and to huddle unhappily…†   (source)
  • Ambitious leaders, human passions and diverse interests divide mankind into parties and inflame animosities.†   (source)
  • The class, though, is almost identical to last semester's: a diverse crowd of mostly nonmath majors, many of whom are expecting to use this class toward a major in one of the sciences.†   (source)
  • The girls' names are in most regards diverse, though with a fair share of literary and otherwise artful touches.†   (source)
  • It starts on Wednesday evening at the incoming freshmen dinner as President Vartan Gregorian tells them they're the "best, most intelligent, most diverse class to ever enter Brown," an address he or his predecessors have given (generally called the "best ever" speech) to every incoming freshman class.†   (source)
  • Eventually all over the room clocks of diverse pattern musically chimed eleven.†   (source)
  • He creates, in this way, diverse futures, diverse times which themselves also proliferate and fork.†   (source)
  • 9 Jewish folk legend declares that during the day of the revelation diverse rumblings sounded from Mount Sinai.†   (source)
  • For a shattering instant a throng of impulses, diverse, fierce, maddening, hurtled against the very core of his being.†   (source)
  • It must, however, be admitted that our fellow citizens' reactions during that month were diverse to the point of incoherence.†   (source)
  • Finally, in the last engagement, Arthur gave the Emperor Lucius such a blow on the head that Excalibur stinted not till it came to his breast, and it was discovered that the Sowdan of Sur-rie and the King of Egypt and the King of Ethiope—an ancestor of Haile Selassie—together with seventeen other kings of diverse regions and sixty senators of Rome, were among the slain.†   (source)
  • Stalin's book showed how diverse minorities could be welded into unity, and I regarded it as a most politically sensitive volume that revealed a new way of looking upon lost and beaten peoples.†   (source)
  • Then, overcome with wonder, his hair standing on end, Arjuna bowed his head to the Lord, joined his palms in salutation, and addressed Him: In Thy body, 0 Lord, I behold all the gods and all the diverse hosts of beings—the Lord Brahma, seated on the lotus, all the patriarchs * The principal text of modern Hindu devotional religiosity: an ethical dialogue of eighteen chapters, appearing in Book VI of the Mahabharata, which is the Indian counterpart of the Iliad. and the celestial…†   (source)
  • Good people, be they ever so diverse in creed, do not threaten each other.†   (source)
  • A medium sized, two windowed room was filled with the most diverse crowd of people†   (source)
  • Only a few had guns, and these were of diverse patterns.†   (source)
  • What diverse influences had gone to the making!†   (source)
  • They could not think a man profound whose interests were so diverse.†   (source)
  • His meditations were of the most complex and diverse character.†   (source)
  • Meantime throughout this struggle the allies had their diverse objects in view.†   (source)
  • Stone-diverse the street was, straight uplong the path led 320 The warriors together.†   (source)
  • Most diverse thoughts and images occupied him simultaneously.†   (source)
  • The most diverse suppositions as to what he was about to speak of to her flashed into her brain.†   (source)
  • All the most diverse sections of the educated public, hostile before, are merged in one.†   (source)
  • No doubt just as the animal kingdom consisted of various species of animals, just as the organism of the human animal consisted of a whole animal kingdom of cell species, so, too, the cell consisted of a new and diverse animal kingdom of elemental, submicroscopic living entities that grew independently, multiplied independently according to the law that each can only produce its own kind, and cooperated by division of labor to serve the next higher level of life.†   (source)
  • Diverse consciences.†   (source)
  • …another of the rooms in which I had slept during my life, and in the end I would revisit them all in the long course of my waking dream: rooms in winter, where on going to bed I would at once bury my head in a nest, built up out of the most diverse materials, the corner of my pillow, the top of my blankets, a piece of a shawl, the edge of my bed, and a copy of an evening paper, all of which things I would contrive, with the infinite patience of birds building their nests, to cement…†   (source)
  • By this time various homeward-bound individuals of diverse grades and walks of life, noticing the small group disposing itself in this fashion, hesitated for a moment to eye them askance or paused to ascertain the character of their work.†   (source)
  • No person of veracity known to Colonel Webb had ever seen Cheseldine, and those who claimed that doubtful honor varied so diversely in descriptions of the chief that they confused the reality and lent to the outlaw only further mystery.†   (source)
  • Good taste and bad taste were only catchwords, garments of diverse cut; and music itself dissolved to a whisper through pine-trees, where the song is not distinguishable from the comic song.†   (source)
  • He had even invented some, to which he had given fantastic names, and for whose manufacture he required diverse ingredients that it devolved upon Edna to procure for him.†   (source)
  • By this time various homeward bound individuals of diverse occupations and interests noticing this small group so advantageously disposed near the principal thoroughfare of the city, hesitated a moment,—either to eye them askance or to ascertain the character of their work.†   (source)
  • For the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed.†   (source)
  • Prince Andrew was most favorably placed to secure good reception in the highest and most diverse Petersburg circles of the day.†   (source)
  • They cooperate with Mr. Washington as far as they conscientiously can; and, indeed, it is no ordinary tribute to this man's tact and power that, steering as he must between so many diverse interests and opinions, he so largely retains the respect of all.†   (source)
  • The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have said.†   (source)
  • This eminent gentleman and Mr Merdle, seated diverse ways and with ruminating aspects on a yellow ottoman in the light of the fire, holding no verbal communication with each other, bore a strong general resemblance to the two cows in the Cuyp picture over against them.†   (source)
  • If we had leisure to examine with the reader, one by one, the diverse traces of destruction imprinted upon the old church, time's share would be the least, the share of men the most, especially the men of art, since there have been individuals who assumed the title of architects during the last two centuries.†   (source)
  • Thus it happened that on this occasion Bulstrode became identified with Lydgate, and Lydgate with Tyke; and owing to this variety of interchangeable names for the chaplaincy question, diverse minds were enabled to form the same judgment concerning it.†   (source)
  • The whole history of the carboniferous period was written upon these gloomy walls, and a geologist might with ease trace all its diverse phases.†   (source)
  • The children like to amuse themselves with it, and it is good for them, because they handle a lot of diverse wares and get to learn about them, how they are made, and where they come from, and so on.†   (source)
  • The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this powerless and dejected character.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she said, "and don't you find it difficult to imagine the times when this little pretty country was treated by its folk as if it had been an ugly characterless waste, with no delicate beauty to be guarded, with no heed taken of the ever fresh pleasure of the recurring seasons, and changeful weather, and diverse quality of the soil, and so forth?†   (source)
  • It was the grace the good man had said simultaneously with his brethren Gaspar the Greek and Melchior the Hindoo, the utterance in diverse tongues out of which had come the miracle attesting the Divine Presence at the meal in the desert years before.†   (source)
  • The world-old phenomenon of the contact of diverse races of men is to have new exemplification during the new century.†   (source)
  • Vive l'Empereur!" came the voices of men, old and young, of most diverse characters and social positions.†   (source)
  • And was it sufficient, when found, to induce forgetfulness profound enough to shut out of mind the infinitely diverse things of life? those that sweeten and those that embitter? hopes hovering in the near future as well as sorrows born of the past?†   (source)
  • …it seemed to him as though everything about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:— "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for me to hold my tongue or to denounce myself, to conceal my person or to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms of egotism, but it is egotism all the same.†   (source)
  • …practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Caesar, Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with France lower…†   (source)
  • There is no longer the measured quiet sound of throbbing activity, like the sound of boiling water, but diverse discordant sounds of disorder.†   (source)
  • What was passing in that receptive childlike soul that so eagerly caught and assimilated all the diverse impressions of life?†   (source)
  • The Rostovs lived in the same hospitable way in Petersburg as in Moscow, and the most diverse people met at their suppers.†   (source)
  • Obviously in spite of himself, in very diverse circumstances, he repeatedly expressed his real thoughts with the bitter conviction that he would not be understood.†   (source)
  • The French found Moscow abandoned but with all the organizations of regular life, with diverse branches of commerce and craftsmanship, with luxury, and governmental and religious institutions.†   (source)
  • The motives of those who thronged from all sides to Moscow after it had been cleared of the enemy were most diverse and personal, and at first for the most part savage and brutal.†   (source)
  • It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power—the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns—should consent to carry out the will of these weak individuals, and should have been induced to do so by an infinite number of diverse and complex causes.†   (source)
  • A hundred million most diverse chances which will be decided on the instant by the fact that our men or theirs run or do not run, and that this man or that man is killed, but all that is being done at present is only play.†   (source)
  • Several tens of thousands of the slain lay in diverse postures and various uniforms on the fields and meadows belonging to the Davydov family and to the crown serfs—those fields and meadows where for hundreds of years the peasants of Borodino, Gorki, Shevardino, and Semenovsk had reaped their harvests and pastured their cattle.†   (source)
  • Apart from that, the chief source of our error in this matter is due to the fact that in the historical accounts a whole series of innumerable, diverse, and petty events, such for instance as all those which led the French armies to Russia, is generalized into one event in accord with the result produced by that series of events, and corresponding with this generalization the whole series of commands is also generalized into a single expression of will.†   (source)
  • …third and most incomprehensible thing is that people studying history deliberately avoid seeing that this flank march cannot be attributed to any one man, that no one ever foresaw it, and that in reality, like the retreat from Fili, it did not suggest itself to anyone in its entirety, but resulted—moment by moment, step by step, event by event—from an endless number of most diverse circumstances and was only seen in its entirety when it had been accomplished and belonged to the past.†   (source)
  • All these nobles, whom Pierre met every day at the Club or in their own houses, were in uniform—some in that of Catherine's day, others in that of Emperor Paul, others again in the new uniforms of Alexander's time or the ordinary uniform of the nobility, and the general characteristic of being in uniform imparted something strange and fantastic to these diverse and familiar personalities, both old and young.†   (source)
  • Right so Sir Tristram and Sir Palomides departed, and either took their ways diverse.†   (source)
  • And as he looked afore him he saw a fair plain, and beside that a fair castle, and afore the castle were many pavilions of silk and of diverse hue.†   (source)
  • made out of a thousand diverse contributions†   (source)
  • Mexican breez'd! the diverse! the compact!†   (source)
  • But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us, As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us diverse forever; Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land, Every day at sundown for your dear sake my love.†   (source)
  • …Soldiers of revolts, standers by gaping graves, lowerers-down of coffins, Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious years each emerging from that which preceded it, Journeyers as with companions, namely their own diverse phases, Forth-steppers from the latent unrealized baby-days, Journeyers gayly with their own youth, journeyers with their bearded and well-grain'd manhood, Journeyers with their womanhood, ample, unsurpass'd, content, Journeyers with their…†   (source)
  • …The rushing amorous contact high in space together, The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel, Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling, In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull, A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing, Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight, She hers, he his, pursuing.†   (source)
  • …but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted, We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, They close peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade, Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras, Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.†   (source)
  • …its place, What has arrived is in its place and what waits shall be in its place, The twisted skull waits, the watery or rotten blood waits, The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and the child of the drunkard waits long, and the drunkard himself waits long, The sleepers that lived and died wait, the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to come on in their turns, The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite— they unite now.†   (source)
  • …Of many an aspiration fond, of many a dream and plan; Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing eternal identity, To Nature encompassing these, encompassing God—to the joyous, electric all, To the sense of Death, and accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life, The entrance of man to sing; To compact you, ye parted, diverse lives, To put rapport the mountains and rocks and streams, And the winds of the north, and the forests of oak and pine, With you O soul.†   (source)
  • …off from him things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns, Nothing out of its place is good, nothing in its place is bad, He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportion, neither more nor less, He is the arbiter of the diverse, he is the key, He is the equalizer of his age and land, He supplies what wants supplying, he checks what wants checking, In peace out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building populous towns, encouraging…†   (source)
  • Right so Sir Tristram and Sir Palomides departed, and either took their ways diverse.†   (source)
  • There as they sounded diverse instruments,†   (source)
  • Diverse folk diversely they deem'd; As many heads, as many wittes been.†   (source)
  • * *extravagance And for their diverse disposition, Each falls in other's exaltation.†   (source)
  • What needest thou diverse friars to seech?†   (source)
  • Diverse folk diversely they deem'd; As many heads, as many wittes been.†   (source)
  • Why Our Saviour Controlled It Not Which doctrine if it be not true, why (may some say) did not our Saviour contradict it, and teach the Contrary? nay why does he use on diverse occasions, such forms of speech as seem to confirm it?†   (source)
  • On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.†   (source)
  • Don Quixote was about to reply to Sancho Panza, but he was prevented by a cart crossing the road full of the most diverse and strange personages and figures that could be imagined.†   (source)
  • Then wide her eyes She oped, and wildly, as she strove to rise, Shrieked : for two diverse waves upon her rolled Of stabbing death.†   (source)
  • It is a science to stretch out the strings Of conscience in the service of diverse things And to rectify an evil action With the purity of our intention.†   (source)
  • …thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Watered the garden; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears, And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account; But rather to tell how, if Art could tell, How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, With mazy errour under pendant…†   (source)
  • Of naked souls I saw many flocks, that were all weeping very miserably, and diverse law seemed imposed upon them.†   (source)
  • The many people and the diverse wounds had so inebriated mine eyes that they were fain to stay for weeping.†   (source)
  • And as he looked afore him he saw a fair plain, and beside that a fair castle, and afore the castle were many pavilions of silk and of diverse hue.†   (source)
  • The written Laws, if they be short, are easily mis-interpreted, from the divers significations of a word, or two; if long, they be more obscure by the diverse significations of many words: in so much as no written Law, delivered in few, or many words, can be well understood, without a perfect understanding of the finall causes, for which the Law was made; the knowledge of which finall causes is in the Legislator.†   (source)
  • But may those Dames aid my verse who aided Amphion to close in Thebes; so that from the fact the speech be not diverse.†   (source)
  • …and to Personate, is to Act, or Represent himselfe, or an other; and he that acteth another, is said to beare his Person, or act in his name; (in which sence Cicero useth it where he saies, "Unus Sustineo Tres Personas; Mei, Adversarii, & Judicis, I beare three Persons; my own, my Adversaries, and the Judges;") and is called in diverse occasions, diversly; as a Representer, or Representative, a Lieutenant, a Vicar, an Attorney, a Deputy, a Procurator, an Actor, and the like.†   (source)
  • And I saw then, what I had not seen before, the descending and the wheeling, by the great evils that were drawing near on diverse sides.†   (source)
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