All 7 Uses of
divert
in
Bleak House
- I might tell you that you don't know your own minds yet, that a thousand things may happen to divert you from one another, that it is well this chain of flowers you have taken up is very easily broken, or it might become a chain of lead.†
Chpt 13-15
- Our coming to the ridge of a hill we had been ascending enabled our friend to point out Chesney Wold itself to us and diverted his attention from its master.†
Chpt 16-18
- I do not mean that it ceased even then, but that my attention was then diverted into a current very memorable to me.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- Besides, my attention was diverted by my visitor, who was cold after her ride and looked hungry and who, our dinner being brought in, required some little assistance in arraying herself with great satisfaction in a pitiable old scarf and a much-worn and often-mended pair of gloves, which she had brought down in a paper parcel.†
Chpt 34-36
- Mr. Guppy's mother was so diverted that she rolled her head as she smiled and made a silent appeal to Caddy with her elbow.†
Chpt 37-39
- Although I remember this conversation now, my head was in confusion at the time, and my power of attention hardly did more than enable me to understand that he entered into these particulars to divert me.†
Chpt 55-57
- It was only Mr. Woodcourt who could occasionally divert his attention for a few hours at a time and rouse him, even when he sunk into a lethargy of mind and body that alarmed us greatly, and the returns of which became more frequent as the months went on.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(divert as in: divert the traffic or funds) to change the direction of something, or the purpose for which it is used