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  • In a Party member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated.   (source)
    deviation = difference
  • Aside from the Cap'n Crunch whistle hidden in the kitchen, I found no surprises or deviations from the original game.†   (source)
  • If he happened to be late, or bring two pencils, or forget his eraser, or in any other way deviate from the instructions, he would not be allowed to take the test, and that would he that.†   (source)
  • Any deviation in his story, even the slightest detail, would give Lawton a chance to pounce on his credibility.†   (source)
  • After today he'll never desire to deviate again.†   (source)
  • I also told him where the deviations would occur.†   (source)
  • I couldn't shake my sense that his attention menaced Ty, the guiltless cultivator, concentrating innocently on never deviating from the rows laid out before him.†   (source)
  • We hurriedly deviated from the path, running into the bushes and lying on the ground.†   (source)
  • I left Dan explaining the deviations from the expected to the excited amateur actor—I wanted to get dressed, and find Owen's clothes, in a hurry, without encountering either of the Wiggins.†   (source)
  • Minor deviations earned her little frowns on wise brows, or a degree of frostiness and withdrawal of sympathy.†   (source)
  • At first he'd improvised, but now they're demanding dogma: he would deviate from orthodoxy at his peril.†   (source)
  • Terry rarely deviates from her self-imposed schedule; with a house this size, she says, you have to tackle a different section every day: bedrooms and laundry on Monday, bathrooms and plants on Tuesday, kitchen and shopping on Wednesday, other main rooms on Thursday, cooking for the weekend on Friday.†   (source)
  • Crew Obligation Statement: "I think we need to deviate right about now."†   (source)
  • Breathing difficult since childhood due to recurrent throat infections and deviated septum in patient's nose.†   (source)
  • He never deviates or lets himself be swayed by the voices outside the door, begging him to open up before a disaster occurs.†   (source)
  • Her red curls shone in the street light and her spaghetti-strapped tank top dipped just low enough that my mind already wondered how I could get her to deviate from the plan of driving at least six hours tonight before setting up the tent.†   (source)
  • Our projected route was a dotted line, with a few little zigzag markings where we'd deviated because of wind and weather.†   (source)
  • No deviation from course.†   (source)
  • This was one of the many small adjustments she had to get used to—now there were thousands out there seeing what she saw, having access to her health data, hearing her voice, seeing her face—she was always visible through one or another of the campus SeeChange cameras, in addition to the one on her monitor—and so when anything deviated from her normal buoyancy, people noticed.†   (source)
  • Though I hated to deviate from my lines, I too needed confirmation.†   (source)
  • Paul could detect no deviations.†   (source)
  • Situated in what had formerly been the righthand lane, we didn't have any choice but to watch these cars pass us at a slightly higher elevation and with a rakish thrust, deviated from the horizontal.†   (source)
  • The Officials don't often allow a deviation from the usual free-rec options; but on the eve of someone's Final Banquet, visiting is encouraged and permitted.†   (source)
  • By the time I turned 13, I wasn't so sure I wanted to be a missionary, but I never deviated from wanting to enter the medical profession.†   (source)
  • Since the basic ideas for this Chautauqua were taken from him there will be no real deviation, only an enlargement that may make the Chautauqua more understandable than if it were presented in a purely abstract way.†   (source)
  • And Roran knew that if he deviated from his orders, even if it was to prevent his men from being massacred, he would be guilty of insubordination and Edric could punish him accordingly.†   (source)
  • "Now, I know the bounty stipulates that you and the girl Annabeth should be kept alive if possible, but honestly, the girl is already doomed, so I hope you don't mind if we deviate from the plan."†   (source)
  • I therefore held to my assigned schedule meticulously, deviating only with purpose.†   (source)
  • As I picked a pen out of the jar by the phone, pulling a notepad closer to me, I had a sudden pang of worry thinking about this deviation from my routine.†   (source)
  • In the weddings she'd been to, she always had the sense that the brides were intent on pulling off an act, and more than once, she'd seen brides get upset if anything deviated from the script.†   (source)
  • When he saw a woman it made him uncomfortable; the danger of deviating from proper behavior was too great.†   (source)
  • As the audience applauds, Sally "Madame Romanoff" Carny leaps from her seat and retreats off into the wings, where her confused lackeys wait for an explanation of tonight's deviation from their plan.†   (source)
  • And you've probably got a deviated septum too.†   (source)
  • It stops for nothing, it deviates for nothing.†   (source)
  • Among them were assorted deviates, but also university professors, doctors, and even a retired cop in Raleigh.†   (source)
  • When I say totalitarian, what I mean is that everything that infringes on kitsch must be banished for life: every display of individualism (because a deviation from the collective is a spit in the eye of the smiling brotherhood); every doubt (because anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself); all irony (because in the realm of kitsch everything must be taken quite seriously); and the mother who abandons her family or the man who prefers men to women, thereby…†   (source)
  • THE WOMEN'S CLINIC behind the main hospital building deviated from the whitewashed decor of Missing, because it had lime-green paint on the outer walls and blue banisters.†   (source)
  • Even as I'm doing it, I'm aware that it's minor league—the way she sleeps with a BlackBerry next to her pillow, the way she works out hours a day and catalogs every little thing she eats, the way she refuses to deviate from a plan or a schedule.†   (source)
  • But the cousin had landed in a track she found it hard to deviate from, despite Jen Shinnan's diplomatic attempt to derail her.†   (source)
  • Follow them precisely with no deviation whatsoever, is that understood?†   (source)
  • Adamsson glanced his way, but this was no deviation from the daily routine.†   (source)
  • She rarely deviates from her original pattern, her hymn of particulars.†   (source)
  • 'How long have you known that Sophie deviates?†   (source)
  • With narrowed eyes, the queen recognized him as well, Eddis's own chamberlain, brought along to perform the obligatory introductions, which he did without a whisker's deviation from his usual palace style.†   (source)
  • The cloaking device is also sounddampening, but please believe that I will know if you try to call out, signal, or deviate from my plan in any way.†   (source)
  • Twenty thousand torches burned around the lake as Ciphus recited their creeds and reminded them all why they must adhere to the very fabric of the Great Romance without the slightest deviation, as Elyon would surely have it.†   (source)
  • His eyes were vast and empty, so empty that Simon wondered if they had even meant to mislead him, or if they were simply programmed like robots to say whatever their master had told them to say, and were unaware of deviations from the script.†   (source)
  • He also followed Grundy's opinion, deviating only in his much stronger emphasis on Article 10 of Pickney's Treaty which dealt with reimbursement.†   (source)
  • He hated neither Italy, swords, horses, nor encyclopedias, and he didn't see the war in Libya as the logical result of but, rather, as a deviation from the way things were, and yet he received entreaties from strange Italians infatuated with the Turkish Empire.†   (source)
  • And he will disapprove of every deviation from it.†   (source)
  • Like I said earlier, Jase was the only one of our four sons who stayed the course and never deviated to the right or left.†   (source)
  • In an input of one hundred test questions he deviated from expected output twice; I came away only partly convinced and by time I was home was unconvinced.†   (source)
  • Who would ever guess that he was a deviate with a compulsion to watch women dress and undress?†   (source)
  • Have I ever deviated seriously?†   (source)
  • The wind rushing through my father's deviated septum had become a wild jungle rhapsody—monkey cries, parrot yawps, pachydermous trumpetings.†   (source)
  • A body of men the size of ours could not be allowed to deviate sufficiently to try to deal with the harassing raids Julian led against our flanks.†   (source)
  • That is just ordinary deviation from external reality.†   (source)
  • "I'd like to deviate from my subject somewhat in order to communicate with you all here tonight, this crowd of friends and neighbors I've known all my life, good people, all of you, the kind of people that can sympathize with whoever gives them a fair chance, if you follow me, and can give the Devil his due, good farm people, the salt of the earth, as the Good Book says--"†   (source)
  • Written on the paper, which almost fell apart in the doctor's fingers when he unfolded it, were excerpts from the Ninety-first Psalm with such changes in the wording as often creep into popular prayers through much repetition, making them deviate increasingly from the original.†   (source)
  • He had not noticed it particularly on landing, but now something about it attracted his attention and he deviated fifty yards towards it.†   (source)
  • Her hand never deviated, never shook from the noise.†   (source)
  • Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation.   (source)
  • No deviation was allowed from the correct path.†   (source)
  • Why should the deviation-rate suddenly get high some years?'†   (source)
  • Say they did allow a deviation to live like us, what'd be the good of it?†   (source)
  • Her doctors were so sure of her recovery that while she was in the hospital for her second radium treatment, they'd performed reconstructive surgery on her nose, fixing the deviated septum that had given her sinus infections and headaches her whole life.†   (source)
  • Mr. Fish's face, and Dan's face, too—both of these sophisticates of amateur theater were mouths-agape in admiration, for here was a stage presence that could overcome not only amateurism but the common cold; Owen had overcome error and bad acting and deviation from the script.†   (source)
  • Our path allows for little deviation.†   (source)
  • On the right was a large white conference table above the white-tiled floor, the only deviation to colour conformity and asepsis being several black ashtrays.†   (source)
  • They were not told why, they were simply ordered to observe the inspections, and at the slightest deviation from normal procedures-which meant any undue interest in the briefcase-they were to intercede.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist had no reason to believe that she had anything to do with the Zalachenko club, but he made a note of every deviation from the norm in his working day, and especially around his neighbourhood.†   (source)
  • From what he heard, Roran had concluded Edric was a competent commander-Nasuada never would have put him in charge of such an important mission otherwise-but he had an abrasive personality, and he disciplined his warriors for even the slightest deviation from established practice, as Roran had learned to his chagrin upon three separate occasions during his first day with Edric's company.†   (source)
  • As soon as it deposited us at our stop on Shariati Street, we hustled home, risking no deviation from our route.†   (source)
  • He'd smell out any deviation.†   (source)
  • Get a bad winter with gales from the south-west, and up goes the deviation-rate — not the next season, but the one after that.†   (source)
  • So there has been a Deviation; and deviation, any deviation from the true image is blasphemy — no less.†   (source)
  • I tried to explain that a person with a deviation — a small deviation, at any rate — wasn't the monstrosity we had been told.†   (source)
  • Even among the vegetables there was little deviation; the solonaceae as usual provided most of what there was.†   (source)
  • By the end of May there were quite a lot of bets laid that the deviation figures were going to touch a record low.†   (source)
  • 'You'll find it easier to understand when you are older, but you do know the definition, and you must have realized Sophie deviated.†   (source)
  • The young crop there looked as if it might be oats, but it deviated to an extent which would have caused it to be burnt long ago at home.†   (source)
  • They wrestled with the novel idea that a Deviation might not be disgusting and evil — not very successfully.†   (source)
  • Such study as has been possible at a distance, however, does not confirm the view of the Right Wing Church Party that they are the result of unchecked deviation.†   (source)
  • At last he took a form from his pouch, and in a slow, deliberate hand wrote that he officially found the child to be a true female human being, free from any detectable form of deviation.†   (source)
  • In a quiet, ordinary voice he said to me: 'You know, David, concealment of a Blasphemy — not reporting a human deviation — is a very, very serious thing.†   (source)
  • There had been a higher deviation rate among the spring-births of the stock — not only our own stock, but everyone's, and particularly among the cattle — than had been known for twenty years.†   (source)
  • Only the authorities, ecclesiastical and lay, were in a position to judge whether the next step was a rediscovery, and so, safe to take; or whether it deviated from the true re-ascent, and so was sinful.†   (source)
  • Usually if a Deviation gets clear of a district they let him go, Nobody can settle anywhere without proofs of identity, or a very thorough examination by the local inspector, so he's pretty well bound to end up in the Fringes, anyway.†   (source)
  • Not, I think, because I ever actually classified her in my mind as a Deviation, but it had to be admitted that she did not quite qualify as a true image, so it seemed more tactful to avoid that aspect.†   (source)
  • That night, for the first time for years, I had a once-familiar dream, only this time when the knife gleamed high in my father's right hand, the deviation that struggled in his left was not a calf, it was not Sophie, either; it was Petra.†   (source)
  • I knew them by heart, just as I knew others elsewhere in the house, which said things like: THE NORM IS THE WILL OF GOD, and, REPRODUCTION IS THE ONLY HOLY PRODUCTION and, THE DEVIL IS THE FATHER OF DEVIATION, and a number of others about Offences and Blasphemies.†   (source)
  • But what's more worrying is that most of them — whether they have seven fingers, or four arms, or hair all over, or six breasts, or whatever it is that's wrong with them — think that their type is the true pattern of the Old People, and anything different is a Deviation.†   (source)
  • There were people who disapproved of his meticulousness, saying that the local Deviation-rate, which had shown a steady overall improvement and now stood at half what it had been in my grandfather's time, would have been better still, but for my father.†   (source)
  • For a moment I thought of trying to get something out of him — casually, of course — about the real nature of the Fringes: after all, as an expert on Deviation he might be expected to know more about them than anyone else.†   (source)
  • In their efforts to score points, each kept a hawk-like watch upon the other's land for the least Deviation or Offence, and both had been known for some time now to reward the informer who would bring news of irregularities in the other's territory.†   (source)
  • You'll find islands where the people are all thickset, and others where they're thin; there are even said to be some islands where both the men and women would be passed as true images if it weren't that some strange deviation has turned them all completely black — though even that's easier to believe than the one about a race of Deviations that has dwindled to two feet high, grown fur and a tail, and taken to living in trees.†   (source)
  • It looked as though the Old South was still alive and well, a little more subtle, without the sheets and night riders, but a force that still tolerated little deviation from the norm.†   (source)
  • There was more than one little town, that in their silent going they saluted while not touching or deviating to it at all.†   (source)
  • The nexus between Mary Alice's rejection of me and my sudden metamorphosis into sexual deviation seemed a little too pat; nonetheless, I could not deny the possibility.†   (source)
  • But now I recollect how these prodigious snores (product of a deviated septum, they had been his lifelong bane, and their cannonade through open windows on summer evenings had been known to arouse neighbors) became during the last night part of the very fabric of my insomnia and formed a turbulent counterpoint to the hectic drift of my thought: to a fleeting but bitter seizure of guilt, to a spasm of erotic mania that swooped down on me like some all-devouring succubus, and finally to…†   (source)
  • Ships have their routes and, as you say, deviate from them only when necessary.†   (source)
  • Before we got to a rebel camp, we would deviate from the path and walk inside the forest.†   (source)
  • Query: "Which direction would you like to deviate?"†   (source)
  • I want your permission to deviate from what we agreed to in our treaty with Ephraim.†   (source)
  • See if you can spot any deviations in Zurich.†   (source)
  • Presumably because of the threat of revelations about his sexual deviations.†   (source)
  • 'Isn't that the way to cleanse deviations?' he demanded fiercely.†   (source)
  • They're right because most deviations aren't any good.†   (source)
  • And when you do go ashore you never know how the local Deviations are going to take you.†   (source)
  • Other places, though, you'll find Deviations who think they are normal.†   (source)
  • But where they can make the stock breed true, they destroy Deviations,' I pointed out.†   (source)
  • The Devil sends Deviations among us to weaken us and tempt us away from Purity.†   (source)
  • If we ever deviate from this, the M. I. will go to pieces.†   (source)
  • "So when there are deviations, we'd like to know about them, and see if there are trends we can learn from.†   (source)
  • I want to step off the path and take off my shoes and walk with my bare feet on the cool, sharp grass, but today is not a day to deviate from what is planned.†   (source)
  • The spirits will understand — but we must understand here in the motherland) We cannot deviate from our cause — we must be strong!†   (source)
  • She believed that the rules must be followed without exception, for to deviate in any way was to court disaster.†   (source)
  • The States will notice deviations, sound the alarm, and use their influence to change federal representatives.†   (source)
  • What strange deviations!†   (source)
  • My father reckoned there was a lot less trouble with mutants on account of it, and when there were any, they were burnt, like other deviations.†   (source)
  • Only God produces perfection, so although deviations may look like us in many ways, they cannot be really human.†   (source)
  • Sure, they can wipe out the obvious deviations, but are you sure that the Old people would recognize any of the present breeds at all?†   (source)
  • Mostly they don't have any sense of sin so they don't stop Deviations; and where they do have a sense of sin, they've got it mixed up.†   (source)
  • Knowing that we're not just pointless freaks — a few bewildered deviations hoping to save their own skins.†   (source)
  • There was, I pointed out, nothing he could pin on us that brought us within any category of the Scheduled Deviations.†   (source)
  • I reckon the church people are more or less right about most deviations — only not for the reasons they say.†   (source)
  • So, because a few wishy-washy minds did not have enough resolution and faith, there were new laws about near-human deviations.†   (source)
  • I can almost understand that God, made angry, might destroy all living things, or the world itself; but I don't understand this instability, this mess of deviations — it makes no sense.'†   (source)
  • That was when they began to understand how fortunate they had been; they found that even in places where physical deviations don't count for much people who have think-together are usually persecuted.†   (source)
  • I recalled Uncle Axel's tales about places beyond the Black Coasts where the Deviations thought that they were the true image, and anything else was a mutant.†   (source)
  • That was one of the parts of the journal that got Marther into a lot of trouble with orthodox people, for it implied that deviations, so far from being a curse, were performing, however slowly, a work of reclamation.†   (source)
  • Usually there was only some small thing wrong, but however much or little was wrong it was an Offence, and if it happened among people it was a Blasphemy — at least, that was the technical term, though commonly both kinds were called Deviations.†   (source)
  • Not mind about Deviations?†   (source)
  • The people of the Fringes — at least, one calls them people, because although they were really Deviations they often looked quite like ordinary human people, if nothing had gone too much wrong with them — these people, then, had very little where they lived in their border country, so they came out into civilized parts to steal grain and livestock and clothes and tools and weapons, too, if they could; and sometimes they carried off children.†   (source)
  • You'll find islands where the people are all thickset, and others where they're thin; there are even said to be some islands where both the men and women would be passed as true images if it weren't that some strange deviation has turned them all completely black — though even that's easier to believe than the one about a race of Deviations that has dwindled to two feet high, grown fur and a tail, and taken to living in trees.†   (source)
  • Hoss's thought process, far from inept, was also as exhaustive and as unimaginatively single-minded as the snout of an anteater and brooked few deviations.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER L Rhett never deviated from his smooth, imperturbable manners, even in their most intimate moments.†   (source)
  • …melancholy, which we can explain at least to some extent when we find her telling us how in the grip of it she would imagine: My lines decried, and my employment thought An useless folly or presumptuous fault: The employment, which was thus censured, was, as far as one can see, the harmless one of rambling about the fields and dreaming: My hand delights to trace unusual things, And deviates from the known and common way, Nor will in fading silks compose, Faintly the inimitable rose.†   (source)
  • Yet they have only to speak, and their first words, with the remembered tone and the perpetual deviation from what one expects, and their hands moving and making a thousand past days rise again in the darkness, shake my purpose.†   (source)
  • Creeping across the open ground, he had deviated to the left and found himself opposite the boat.†   (source)
  • This was a little deviation from stern veracity.†   (source)
  • This lava stream deviated neither to the right nor to the left.†   (source)
  • Two hours more passed without rest or deviation from the course.†   (source)
  • Nature, according to her way, had made no deviation in the path he had marked out for himself.†   (source)
  • There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the standard of height or bulk.†   (source)
  • Before its disorders set in, the needle had never deviated from that direction.†   (source)
  • Yes; with a westerly deviation of nineteen degrees forty-five minutes, just as above ground.†   (source)
  • In associating an officer of marines with the sea-lieutenants in a case having to do with a sailor, the Commander perhaps deviated from general custom.†   (source)
  • "You are deviating from the truth, sir, as usual!" she remarked, boiling over with indignation; "you never carried her in your life!"†   (source)
  • As it was impossible to crawl in a straight line, owing to rocks impeding his progress, he deviated from the course set by Pilchuck.†   (source)
  • Venters satisfied himself that the rustlers had not deviated from their usual course, and then he turned at right angles off the cattle trail and made for the head of the pass.†   (source)
  • Certainly the slightest deviation from the Berghof's customary nocturnal peace, the tiniest muffled disturbance, even the barely perceptible sound of someone moving in the distance, was enough to bring him wide awake and make him sit up in bed.†   (source)
  • Nor in any point could it have been at all deviated from, either with respect to Claggart or Billy Budd, without begetting undesirable speculations in the ship's company, sailors, and more particularly men-of—war's-men, being of all men the greatest sticklers for usage.†   (source)
  • He did not think of doubting Freemasonry itself, but suspected that Russian Masonry had taken a wrong path and deviated from its original principles.†   (source)
  • It is not a connexion to gratify; but if Mr. Churchill does not feel that, why should we? and it may be a very fortunate circumstance for him, for Frank, I mean, that he should have attached himself to a girl of such steadiness of character and good judgment as I have always given her credit for—and still am disposed to give her credit for, in spite of this one great deviation from the strict rule of right.†   (source)
  • Election Of The President Dangers of the elective system increase in proportion to the extent of the prerogative—This system possible in America because no powerful executive authority is required—What circumstances are favorable to the elective system—Why the election of the President does not cause a deviation from the principles of the Government—Influence of the election of the President on secondary functionaries.†   (source)
  • 1830, in its deviation, had good luck.†   (source)
  • They were compelled, at all times and in all points, to imitate their predecessors, lest they should stray into utter darkness, by deviating for an instant from the path already laid down for them.†   (source)
  • I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.†   (source)
  • So the two swords were crossed close to the hilts, and as d'Artagnan stood firm, it was his adversary who made the retreating step; but d'Artagnan seized the moment at which, in this movement, the sword of Bernajoux deviated from the line.†   (source)
  • He had never since the memorable evening deviated from his old pastoral kindness towards her, and her momentary wonder and doubt had quite gone to sleep.†   (source)
  • I then made her, according to certain established regulations from which no deviation, however slight, could ever be permitted, a glass of hot wine and water, and a slice of toast cut into long thin strips.†   (source)
  • I trust in Heaven you have not deviated a single foot from the direct line of our course with so slight a reason!†   (source)
  • "The fair to-day seems a large one," she said when, by natural deviation, their eyes sought the busy scene without.†   (source)
  • He points it, however, by no deviation from his straightforward manner of speech, though in saying it he turns towards that part of the dim room where my Lady sits.†   (source)
  • It was impossible for her to enter on such a subject; and yet, after a pause, feeling the necessity of speaking, and having not the smallest wish for a total change, she only deviated so far as to say— "You were a good while at Lyme, I think?"†   (source)
  • This child's presence called up both in Vronsky and in Anna a feeling akin to the feeling of a sailor who sees by the compass that the direction in which he is swiftly moving is far from the right one, but that to arrest his motion is not in his power, that every instant is carrying him further and further away, and that to admit to himself his deviation from the right direction is the same as admitting his certain ruin.†   (source)
  • As respects Deerslayer, though he took a pride in showing his white blood, by often deviating from the usages of the red-men, he frequently dropped into their customs, and oftener into their feelings, unconsciously to himself, in consequence of having no other arbiters to appeal to, than their judgments and tastes.†   (source)
  • To that end Kutuzov's activity was directed during the whole campaign from Moscow to Vilna—not casually or intermittently but so consistently that he never once deviated from it.†   (source)
  • Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, the eager: something which chastened the pleasure of those who looked on her and listened to her, by a controlling sense of awe; and such was my feeling now: but as to Helen Burns, I was struck with wonder.†   (source)
  • However worthy of confidence may be the narrative of Major Long, it must be remembered that he only passed through the country of which he speaks, without deviating widely from the line which he had traced out for his journey.†   (source)
  • [Footnote o: The inhabitants of Massachusetts had deviated from the forms which are preserved in the criminal and civil procedure of England; in 1650 the decrees of justice were not yet headed by the royal style.†   (source)
  • Could he have followed without deviation the fiftieth parallel, which is that of London, the whole distance would only have been about twelve thousand miles; whereas he would be forced, by the irregular methods of locomotion, to traverse twenty-six thousand, of which he had, on the 23rd of November, accomplished seventeen thousand five hundred.†   (source)
  • Hawkeye soon deviated from the line of their retreat, and striking off towards the mountains which form the western boundary of the narrow plain, he led his followers, with swift steps, deep within the shadows that were cast from their high and broken summits.†   (source)
  • But I am sure that the count does not regret having once deviated from the principles he has so boldly avowed.†   (source)
  • This was the first indication of the necessity of deviating from what had previously seemed the most natural course—a direct retreat on Nizhni-Novgorod.†   (source)
  • Men are much alike, and they are annoyed, as it were, by any deviation from that likeness: far from seeking to preserve their own distinguishing singularities, they endeavor to shake them off, in order to identify themselves with the general mass of the people, which is the sole representative of right and of might to their eyes.†   (source)
  • "Well," said he, "let us go to Valentine; I will give instructions to every one, and you, M. de Villefort, will yourself see that no one deviates from them."†   (source)
  • Across the paper was scrawled in pencil, without capital letters, misspelled, and without punctuation: "Unsoundly constructed because resembles an imitation of the French military code and from the Articles of War needlessly deviating."†   (source)
  • "How have I deviated from those principles, monsieur?" asked Monte Cristo, who could not help looking at Morrel with so much intensity, that two or three times the young man had been unable to sustain that clear and piercing glance.†   (source)
  • As for the exact depth reached, it was very easy to ascertain that; the Professor measured accurately the angles of deviation and inclination on the road, but he kept the results to himself.†   (source)
  • "Because," said the old man, "the natural repugnance to the commission of such a crime prevented you from thinking of it; and so it ever is because in simple and allowable things our natural instincts keep us from deviating from the strict line of duty.†   (source)
  • It is evident that at that moment a deviation had presented itself before me, whilst the Hansbach, following the caprice of another incline, had gone with my companions away into unknown depths.†   (source)
  • His actions—without the smallest deviation—were all directed to one and the same threefold end: (1) to brace all his strength for conflict with the French, (2) to defeat them, and (3) to drive them out of Russia, minimizing as far as possible the sufferings of our people and of our army.†   (source)
  • Pfuel and his adherents demanded a retirement into the depths of the country in accordance with precise laws defined by a pseudo-theory of war, and they saw only barbarism, ignorance, or evil intention in every deviation from that theory.†   (source)
  • …brought his friend "Sinbad the Sailor" back to his recollection, and that was the mysterious sort of intimacy that seemed to exist between the brigands and the sailors; and Pastrini's account of Vampa's having found refuge on board the vessels of smugglers and fishermen, reminded Franz of the two Corsican bandits he had found supping so amicably with the crew of the little yacht, which had even deviated from its course and touched at Porto-Vecchio for the sole purpose of landing them.†   (source)
  • Perhaps we have deviated.†   (source)
  • The famous flank movement merely consisted in this: after the advance of the French had ceased, the Russian army, which had been continually retreating straight back from the invaders, deviated from that direct course and, not finding itself pursued, was naturally drawn toward the district where supplies were abundant.†   (source)
  • Do not blame him, however, for departing from his character, where the deviation is necessary.†   (source)
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