Both Uses of
diverge
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- 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.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- But on seeing Bathsheba turn, he looked aside, and as soon as he got beyond the gate, and there was the barest excuse for a divergence, he made one, and vanished.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(diverge) to move apart; or be or become different