All 15 Uses of
diverse
in
War and Peace
- Prince Andrew was most favorably placed to secure good reception in the highest and most diverse Petersburg circles of the day.†
Chpt 6 *
- The Rostovs lived in the same hospitable way in Petersburg as in Moscow, and the most diverse people met at their suppers.†
Chpt 6
- What was passing in that receptive childlike soul that so eagerly caught and assimilated all the diverse impressions of life?†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 9
- Vive l'Empereur!" came the voices of men, old and young, of most diverse characters and social positions.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
Chpt 10
- 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.†
Chpt 10
- There is no longer the measured quiet sound of throbbing activity, like the sound of boiling water, but diverse discordant sounds of disorder.†
Chpt 11
- Most diverse thoughts and images occupied him simultaneously.†
Chpt 11
- …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.†
Chpt 13
- 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.†
Chpt 15
- 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.†
Chpt 15
- 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.†
Chpt 15
- 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.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(diverse) varied or (having differences amongst things of the same kind) -- especially with regard to ideas or members of a population group