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  • Their paths diverged more and more as they flew, and where Bernard made a clumsy, crunching landing and bounce on his wall, Alai did a glancing triple bounce on three surfaces near the corner that left him most of his speed and sent him flying off at a surprising angle.†   (source)
  • I wrote out the formulas for some of them almost instantaneously and could tell at a glance that the rest of them were divergent.†   (source)
  • No matter how widely our paths may have diverged for the rest of the day, we overlapped again and again at our appointed hour and place.†   (source)
  • I went for a walk in the hospital parking lot, which was busy and lifted my spirits with all those converging and diverging intentions, even though some of the people in the parking lot were visibly ill or injured.†   (source)
  • When the workingpeople began leaving their houses, the daybreak boys diverged, Mars Bar to the East End, Maniac to wherever.†   (source)
  • So when she lay in the dark listening to Fiona begin her nightlong snoring—she slept on her back—Briony already sensed that the parallel life, which she could imagine so easily from her visits to Cambridge as a child to see Leon and Cecilia, would soon begin to diverge from her own.†   (source)
  • Listen ...Two roads diverged in a yellow wood ... He moved on to the next desk.†   (source)
  • With a divergence test, obviously there isn't a single right answer.†   (source)
  • Their paths diverge and both leap from about twenty feet away, one jumping at Henri, the other coming at me.†   (source)
  • As they leveled out, their minds began to diverge, becoming distinct personalities again.†   (source)
  • When word got to my family, I faced divergent pressures: I should be responsible and have this child.†   (source)
  • A CONFLUENCE OF PATHS Two roads diverged in the middle of my life, I heard a wise man say I took the road less traveled by And that's made the difference every night and every day —Larry Norman (with apologies to Robert Frost) March unleashed a torrent of rainfall after an abnormally dry winter.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they do not respond to questions and when they do the responses are little better than the grunts or divergent answers one receives from slow children.†   (source)
  • The result was that students often got the best of our divergent approaches (and they certainly got role models on how to work with people different from themselves).†   (source)
  • Wherever the pth diverged she took the wider one.†   (source)
  • Not the Babel event-which most people consider to be a myth-but the fact that languages tend to diverge.†   (source)
  • Your family's divergence from humanity is much more interesting.†   (source)
  • Our paths, which had crossed so suddenly and so powerfully in a life-changing encounter for both of us, were about to diverge.†   (source)
  • They spoke of themselves, of their divergent lives, of the incredible coincidence of their lying naked in a dark cabin on a stranded boat when reason told them they had time only for death.†   (source)
  • But people tend to freak out when something diverges from their expectations.†   (source)
  • Minute by minute they're beginning to diverge from each other.†   (source)
  • At its highest point, the pass forked like a pair of tight pants into two diverging trails.†   (source)
  • Through well-tended gardens beyond her patio, narrow stone paths diverge.†   (source)
  • Jennifer Anne asked, gamely allowing this divergence from her scripted dinner conversation.†   (source)
  • Even though they've walked several steps down diverging paths, Barbara and Cedric talk regularly.†   (source)
  • The word seems unduly fiery when one remembers the smiling, insouciant manner of his divergences from the conventional type; yet he was inveterately himself, and not some schoolmaster's or tailor's or barber's version of Gray Stoddard; and in this, though Johnnie did not know it, lay the strength of his charm for her.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, but something still gets lost in translation," said Max, stopping to read the new sign that had been erected where the road diverged.†   (source)
  • Their lives were diverging because of responsibilities to others, and it suddenly seemed cruelly unfair to Adrienne.†   (source)
  • Our paths diverged.†   (source)
  • Between Jefferson and Adams there was no discussion of their diverging views.†   (source)
  • One end of the thing was pressed into the bank, but along its length it diverged, sticking out slightly into the stream.†   (source)
  • Alternate universes, divergent realities, time distortions, whatever.†   (source)
  • Lillian Lebel, an employee in the Gagnons' travel agency, remembers the divergent outlooks of Rene and Pauline: "Pauline loved the fact that he was famous.†   (source)
  • Voluminously and wittily, and animated by more than a little Anglophobia, Mencken demonstrated that our language began to diverge from the mother tongue almost as soon as the first colonists arrived in North America.†   (source)
  • All his letters show is an enormous confusion of contradictions and incongruities and divergences and exceptions to any rule he formulated about the things he observed.†   (source)
  • When the Halfinaester appeared on deck, yawning, the dwarf was writing down what he recalled concerning the mating habits of dragons, on which subject Barth, Munkun, and Thomax held markedly divergent views.†   (source)
  • Near the quarry, the dirt road diverged, and to the right the general prisoners trooped off to the rock quarry.†   (source)
  • Many were filled with wildly divergent descriptions from people who claimed to have seen the man known as the Chameleon, but among the most reliable was a common reference to the catlike mobility of the "assassin."†   (source)
  • It was here that Cesar and the boys' paths diverged.†   (source)
  • Pollard and Woolf returned to the United States, where racing had been relegalized, and their careers began to diverge.†   (source)
  • The critics denounced the government's virtual ban on discussions of ethnicity that diverged from the official line — a ploy, they said, to cover up systematic discrimination against Hutus, which was bound to lead to more violence someday.†   (source)
  • As Rafi grew more competent, his passion for climbing and Alessandro's diverged.†   (source)
  • Somehow, through caution, luck, and quick recoveries we managed to escape direct suspicion and live our two diverging lives for the next six years without the sense of peril becoming sharp.†   (source)
  • Those urges to belong, divergent as they are, can live together more easily if we, Britain and the Irish Republic, can live closer together too.†   (source)
  • Every day he punched cards, punched and punched, trying to avoid instability, divergence, distortion.†   (source)
  • Very notably, with no exceptions that I know of, his experiences in the apparently divergent fields of clinical, social, and newsstand psychology had been costly for him, as though the places where he was examined had been uniformly alive with either highly contagious traumas or just plain old-fashioned germs.†   (source)
  • Now this is where the stories offered by the boy and the State begin to diverge slightly.†   (source)
  • But since morning, they had lived in diverging worlds.†   (source)
  • "But mainly, Mr. MacLain, you should remember to keep off rich food," Miss Snowdie said, leading her husband down a divergent path.†   (source)
  • There was no divergence of method,   (source)
  • Then the Dragon Wing tacked port, diverging from the current in Uthar's bid for the open sea.†   (source)
  • Each lived a distinct style, to divergent ends.†   (source)
  • The three diverging streams from antiquity joined into one great river.†   (source)
  • Once they reached level ground, a lane diverged from the road and curved toward the shoreline.†   (source)
  • , then the gas flow in the divergent section would go supersonic, a very good thing.†   (source)
  • Feeling about, Max realized that the tunnel had diverged.†   (source)
  • When they emerged on the other side of the wall, Max saw that the ramp had diverged.†   (source)
  • She also told him that after school she had often spent long hours in the notions shop with Transito Ariza, performing prodigious feats of embroidery, for she had been a notable teacher, and that if she had not continued seeing Florentino Ariza with the same frequency, it had not been through choice but because of how their lives had diverged.†   (source)
  • Divergence tests are every bit as challenging as convergence tests, and if you don't believe that, I encourage you to pause and try the brick-and-blanket test right now.†   (source)
  • Our stories are obviously specific to our two lives, but I hope they will illuminate the crucial inflection points in every life, the sudden moments of decision where our paths diverge and our fates are sealed.†   (source)
  • And that afterward, languages have always had an innate tendency to diverge and become mutually incomprehensible-that this tendency is, as he put it, coiled like a serpent around the human brainstem.†   (source)
  • The two men's paths diverged over time.†   (source)
  • a blanket This is an example of what's called a "divergence test" (as opposed to a test like the Raven's, which asks you to sort through a list of possibilities and converge on the right answer).†   (source)
  • And in their divergent reactions to these shattering events, my parents gradually set in motion the largely separate lives they would lead from that point on.†   (source)
  • I remember," said Max, thinking back to his first day at Rowan, when he'd spied his strange new roommate inexplicably burying a coin where a small side path diverged into the wood.†   (source)
  • DIVERGENCE The butcher sat slumped against the left-hand wall, both arms chained to an iron ring above his head.†   (source)
  • But what we ought to aim at is less the ascertainment of resemblances and differences than the recognition of likenesses hidden under apparent divergences.†   (source)
  • And at once he saw that the little boy was special, that with such a husky father and delicate mother, he, continually translating between divergent qualities, was poised to become wise, even if, at only nine, he looked like a Turkish wrestler.†   (source)
  • The next two, though, are ticklish-one dealing with various series equations and whether their functions would converge or diverge; on the other, he needs to locate the power series in two functions.†   (source)
  • The scenes diverged from established fact, however, and immersed him in imaginary situations constructed piecemeal from fragments of what had actually been.†   (source)
  • If the trends we have identified stay on their present paths, we can expect to see more diversity in regional speech patterns, new dialects becoming stronger (as in California), some disappearing (as in Ocracoke), and some continuing to diverge from standard American (as African American English).†   (source)
  • If the gases reach sonic velocity at the throat, they will go supersonic in the diverging part of the nozzle, producing maximum thrust.†   (source)
  • One could speculate that living and working in big immigrant cities like New York, with neighbors and colleagues who spoke anything but correct or fluent English, may have made Americans more tolerant of divergent forms of speech, at least as a source of humor.†   (source)
  • These insights led Bailey and Cukor —Avila to conclude that urban black speech appeared to be diverging from rather than converging with white speech, as a result of the great black migration to the North.†   (source)
  • And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added.†   (source)
  • If the river continued through the throat at less than sonic speed—that is to say, less than the speed of sound—it became compacted in the divergent section, bound in turmoil, and inefficient.†   (source)
  • A Swedish engineer, Carl Gustav De Laval, had shown that by adding a divergent passage to a converging nozzle (one that necked down to a narrow throat) the expansion of the fluid (or gas) coming out of the throat would be transformed into jet kinetic energy.†   (source)
  • Quentin and I still weren't quite ready to work the equations for a De Laval nozzle in my book, but I got the machinists working, instead, on a new nozzle with deeper countersink cuts, hoping we might acquire at least some of the attributes of the converging-diverging design.†   (source)
  • A row ensued, the first of many occasioned by the divergence of our tastes in haberdashery.†   (source)
  • Brownsville was fading from his mind, becoming soon a troubled nebulous land, alien and diverging.†   (source)
  • This interval, too great to be closed by all the infinite gradations of popularized "modernism" and "modernistic" kitsch, corresponds in turn to a social interval, a social interval that has always existed in formal culture, as elsewhere in civilized society, and whose two termini converge and diverge in fixed relation to the increasing or decreasing stability of the given society.†   (source)
  • Another great help, where the parties concerned are male and female, is the divergence of view about Unselfishness which we have built up between the sexes.†   (source)
  • He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times.†   (source)
  • That was the first time the twins' interest had ever diverged, and Brent was resentful of his brother's attentions to a girl who seemed to him not at all remarkable.†   (source)
  • They knew instinctively what they were about, as did the Wilkeses, though in widely divergent ways, and in them there was no such conflict as frequently raged in Scarlett's bosom where the blood of a softvoiced, overbred Coast aristocrat mingled with the shrewd, earthy blood of an Irish peasant.†   (source)
  • Not the swarming of the divergent, parallel and finally coalescent armies, but a more inaccessible, more intimate agitation that they in some manner prefigured.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly she diverged and began to talk about some personal matter.†   (source)
  • The reflection which resulted from this refraction was, necessarily, divergent and perverted.†   (source)
  • We were taking the course I had begun with, and from which I had diverged in the mist.†   (source)
  • They proceeded along the road together till they reached the town, and their paths diverged.†   (source)
  • By diverging a little I can make my way home the same as yours.†   (source)
  • I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her.†   (source)
  • He diverged to the right before ascending the hill with the single purpose of gaining, on his way, a glimpse of Arabella that should not come into the reckoning of regular appointments.†   (source)
  • Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.†   (source)
  • However, I hope I shall not interfere with the proper sequence of my narrative too much, if I diverge for a moment at this point, in order to explain the mutual relations between General Epanchin's family and others acting a part in this history, at the time when we take up the thread of their destiny.†   (source)
  • It is the very demon for conveying similarities of sound that are miracles of divergence from similarity of sense.†   (source)
  • To-day the two groups of Negroes, the one in the North, the other in the South, represent these divergent ethical tendencies, the first tending toward radicalism, the other toward hypocritical compromise.†   (source)
  • But as he spoke, he brought together, in a single breath, categories that until now Hans Castorp had been accustomed to think of as widely divergent.†   (source)
  • At the least we can promise ourselves that pleasure which is wickedly said to be in sinning, for a literary sin the divergence will be.†   (source)
  • However disillusioned we may be about women, however we may regard the possession of even the most divergent types as an invariable and monotonous experience, every detail of which is known and can be described in advance, it still becomes a fresh and stimulating pleasure if the women concerned be—or be thought to be—so difficult as to oblige us to base our attack upon some unrehearsed incident in our relations with them, as was originally for Swann the arrangement of the cattleyas.†   (source)
  • The propeller turned without a check, as though its beat had been part of the scheme of a safe universe; and on each side of the Patna two deep folds of water, permanent and sombre on the unwrinkled shimmer, enclosed within their straight and diverging ridges a few white swirls of foam bursting in a low hiss, a few wavelets, a few ripples, a few undulations that, left behind, agitated the surface of the sea for an instant after the passage of the ship, subsided splashing gently, calmed down at last into the circular stillness of water and sky with the black speck of the moving hull remaining everlastingly in its centre.†   (source)
  • But he felt less and less hopeful with each failure, and presently began to turn off into diverging avenues at sheer random, in desperate hope of finding the one that was wanted.†   (source)
  • On their part they saw a great difference in him, a growing divergence from the Angel Clare of former times.†   (source)
  • Summer Street lay deep in the woods, and she had stopped where a footpath diverged from the highroad.†   (source)
  • Thus they slowly diverged toward the west, drawing farther away from the remainder of the boats in their line.†   (source)
  • The sisters were alike as little girls, but at the time of the Wilcox episode their methods were beginning to diverge; the younger was rather apt to entice people, and, in enticing them, to be herself enticed; the elder went straight ahead, and accepted an occasional failure as part of the game.†   (source)
  • I hear Mrs. Trenor wants to build out a new ball-room, and that divergence from Gus on that point keeps her at Bellomont.†   (source)
  • He was about thirty-five years old, broad-shouldered, stout, considerably shorter than the two men across from him, so that he had to tip his head back to look them in the eye, and extraordinarily pale— there was almost a translucence, even phosphorescence, to his pallor, and it was enhanced by dark, glowing eyes, black eyebrows, and a rather long beard that already showed a few gray strands and ended in two diverging points.†   (source)
  • With the woman's instinct to hide she diverged hastily— "I should have had four years more of your heart than I can ever have now.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Fisher's unconventionality was, after all, a merely superficial divergence from an inherited social creed, while the manners of the Gormer circle represented their first attempt to formulate such a creed for themselves.†   (source)
  • Every time that he returned hither he was conscious of this divergence, and since he had last shared in the Vicarage life it had grown even more distinctly foreign to his own than usual.†   (source)
  • This too familiar intonation, less than four years earlier, had brought to her ears expressions of such divergent purpose that her heart became quite sick at the irony of the contrast.†   (source)
  • Could it be possible, he continued, that eyes which as they gazed never expressed any divergence from what the tongue was telling, were yet ever seeing another world behind her ostensible one, discordant and contrasting?†   (source)
  • Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well-disposed or harmless errands.†   (source)
  • Continuing then to pursue his walk in silence, I ventured to recall him to the point whence he had abruptly diverged — "Did you leave the balcony, sir," I asked, "when Mdlle.†   (source)
  • Spaniards, Englishmen, and Italian malcontents, adventurers of all nations, and soldiers of fortune of every sect, flocked at the first summons under the standard of the Protestants, and organized themselves like a vast association, whose branches diverged freely over all parts of Europe.†   (source)
  • When the lad ended she began, precisely in the same words, and ranted on without hitch or divergence till she too reached the end.†   (source)
  • Five corridors diverged like the rays of a star, and the walls, dug into niches, which were arranged one above the other in the shape of coffins, showed that they were at last in the catacombs.†   (source)
  • Berthier wrote to his Emperor (we know how far commanding officers allow themselves to diverge from the truth in describing the condition of an army) and this is what he said: I deem it my duty to report to Your Majesty the condition of the various corps I have had occasion to observe during different stages of the last two or three days' march.†   (source)
  • Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Then, moreover, as regarded his unceremonious ejectment, the late Surveyor was not altogether ill-pleased to be recognised by the Whigs as an enemy; since his inactivity in political affairs—his tendency to roam, at will, in that broad and quiet field where all mankind may meet, rather than confine himself to those narrow paths where brethren of the same household must diverge from one another—had sometimes made it questionable with his brother Democrats whether he was a friend.†   (source)
  • Shtcherbatsky moved away from them, and Kitty, going up to a card table, sat down, and, taking up the chalk, began drawing diverging circles over the new green cloth.†   (source)
  • That some such course was now adopted he believed from the tramp of feet, which not only came up the ascent, as related, but were also heard, under the first impulse, diverging not only towards the hill in the rear, but towards the extremity of the point, in a direction opposite to that he was about to take himself.†   (source)
  • But we must not let the recollections of this good fellow cause us to diverge from the principal history.†   (source)
  • If we did by any chance diverge into another subject, we soon returned to this, and wondered what the house would be like, and when we should get there, and whether we should see Mr. Jarndyce as soon as we arrived or after a delay, and what he would say to us, and what we should say to him.†   (source)
  • It differs from the manatee in that its upper jaw is armed with two long, pointed teeth that form diverging tusks on either side.†   (source)
  • If the Countess objected to argument Isabel at this moment had as little taste for it, and she put out her hand to Pansy with a pleasant sense that such a gesture committed her to nothing that would admit of a divergence of views.†   (source)
  • For the rest, there were six persons present, and consequently six sections of the party were represented, four of which had strong but divergent Anarchist opinions.†   (source)
  • A narrow winding street, full of offence and stench, with other narrow winding streets diverging, all peopled by rags and nightcaps, and all smelling of rags and nightcaps, and all visible things with a brooding look upon them that looked ill.†   (source)
  • I see the divergence in our faith.†   (source)
  • Mr. Spenlow and I falling into this conversation, prolonged it and our saunter to and fro, until we diverged into general topics.†   (source)
  • It was not on the same floor, for it was a room at the side of the house, which was approached by a steep descent of a few odd steps, diverging from the main staircase nearly opposite to Mrs Clennam's door.†   (source)
  • The divergence to Mellstock delayed Farfrae's return very nearly the two hours of Henchard's estimate.†   (source)
  • It occurred to her that he might be resting in the summer-house, towards which the path diverged a little.†   (source)
  • They then formed themselves in a circle around a warrior, who appeared to possess the chief authority; and at a given signal the whole array moved slowly and cautiously from the centre in straight and consequently in diverging lines.†   (source)
  • An association unites the efforts of minds which have a tendency to diverge in one single channel, and urges them vigorously towards one single end which it points out.†   (source)
  • You can even detect a water-bug (Gyrinus) ceaselessly progressing over the smooth surface a quarter of a mile off; for they furrow the water slightly, making a conspicuous ripple bounded by two diverging lines, but the skaters glide over it without rippling it perceptibly.†   (source)
  • After making nearly a semicircle around the pond, they diverged from the water-course, and began to ascend to the level of a slight elevation in that bottom land, over which they journeyed.†   (source)
  • Roads diverge in every direction from the even and graceful bottoms of the valleys to the most rugged and intricate passes of the hills.†   (source)
  • But her face was a larger and freer copy, and her mouth in especial a happy divergence from that conservative orifice, a little pair of lips at once plump and pinched, that looked, when closed, as if they could not open wider than to swallow a gooseberry or to emit an "Oh, dear, no!" which probably had been thought to give the finishing touch to the aristocratic prettiness of the Lady Emmeline Atheling as represented, forty years before, in several Books of Beauty.†   (source)
  • "Aye, aye, I thought as much," soliloquized Stubb, when the boats diverged, "as soon as I clapt eye on 'em, I thought so.†   (source)
  • Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next the water.†   (source)
  • That, carnivorous," he continued, glancing his eye at the open page of his tablets; "this, granivorous; habits, fierce, dangerous; habits, patient, abstemious; ears, inconspicuous; ears, elongated; horns, diverging, &c.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Already Dantes had visited this maritime Bourse two or three times, and seeing all these hardy free-traders, who supplied the whole coast for nearly two hundred leagues in extent, he had asked himself what power might not that man attain who should give the impulse of his will to all these contrary and diverging minds.†   (source)
  • We shall not stop to relate them, but will just mention that in the morning sundry diverging paths were to be seen in the snow; and that once during their progress to the door, Marmaduke, missing his companions, was enabled to trace them by one of these paths to a spot where he discovered them with nothing visible but their heads, Richard singing in a most vivacious strain: "Come, let us be jolly, And cast away folly, For grief turns a black head to gray."†   (source)
  • For several miles in this direction, the mountains appeared reluctant to yield their dominion, but within reach of the eye they diverged, and finally melted into the level and sandy lands, across which we have accompanied our adventurers in their double journey.†   (source)
  • There was a drop in the Vicar's voice when he spoke the last words He paused—they were standing on a patch of green where the road diverged towards St. Botolph's, and he put out his hand, as if to imply that the conversation was closed.†   (source)
  • In fact, by establishing a circuit between two wires immersed to different depths, I'd be able to obtain electricity through the diverging temperatures they experience; but I preferred to use a more practical procedure.†   (source)
  • In his epistolary communication, as in his dialogues and discourses on the great question to which it related, Mr Dorrit surrounded the subject with flourishes, as writing-masters embellish copy-books and ciphering-books: where the titles of the elementary rules of arithmetic diverge into swans, eagles, griffins, and other calligraphic recreations, and where the capital letters go out of their minds and bodies into ecstasies of pen and ink.†   (source)
  • "Will you come in and have some supper?" said Farfrae when they reached the middle of the town, where their paths diverged right and left.†   (source)
  • One or two promised; and Christian, diverging from his direct path, turned round to the right with his companions towards the Quiet Woman.†   (source)
  • Soon the two ships diverged their wakes; and long as the strange vessel was in view, she was seen to yaw hither and thither at every dark spot, however small, on the sea.†   (source)
  • They had reached the bank of the lake, and were diverging from the route of the highway, before Kirby recollected that he was now entitled to the privilege of the initiated, and repeated his question as to the name of the offender, "Which way, which way, squire?" exclaimed the hardy wood-chopper; "I thought it was to search a house that you wanted me, not the woods.†   (source)
  • Dimensions (by estimation)—Greatest length, eleven feet; height, six feet; head, erect; nostrils, expansive; eyes, expressive and fierce; teeth, serrated and abundant; tail, horizontal, waving, and slightly feline; feet, large and hairy; talons, long, curvated, dangerous; ears, inconspicuous; horns, elongated, diverging, and formidable; colour, plumbeous-ashy, with fiery spots; voice, sonorous, martial, and appalling; habits, gregarious, carnivorous, fierce, and fearless.†   (source)
  • Among the Brachyura, Conseil mentions some amanthia crabs whose fronts were armed with two big diverging tips, those inachus scorpions that—lord knows why—symbolized wisdom to the ancient Greeks, spider crabs of the massena and spinimane varieties that had probably gone astray in these shallows because they usually live in the lower depths, xanthid crabs, pilumna crabs, rhomboid crabs, granular box crabs (easy on the digestion, as Conseil ventured t†   (source)
  • By diverging to that village, as he had intended to do, Farfrae might probably delay his return by a couple of hours.†   (source)
  • That was one point of divergence.†   (source)
  • The first, of weather-stained brick, was immediately at the end of High Street, where a diverging branch from that thoroughfare ran round to the low-lying Durnover lanes; so that the precincts of the bridge formed the merging point of respectability and indigence.†   (source)
  • Miss Vye was not to be seen by anybody just then; and the reddleman waited in the window-bench of the kitchen, his hands hanging across his divergent knees, and his cap hanging from his hands.†   (source)
  • In her anxiety to get out of the direct view of the house she had diverged from the straightest path homeward, and while looking about to regain it she came upon a little boy gathering whortleberries in a hollow.†   (source)
  • After this he returned on foot some part of the way that he had come; and, it being now dark, he diverged to the left till he stood behind a holly-bush on the edge of a pit not twenty yards from Rainbarrow.†   (source)
  • The wedding subject was no further dwelt upon; and soon a faint diverging path was reached, where they parted company, Olly first begging her companion to remind Mr. Wildeve that he had not sent her sick husband the bottle of wine promised on the occasion of his marriage.†   (source)
  • Moreover, what he does tell can be subtly allusive: the apparently diverging lines his story takes often resonate with other stories not explicitly told, and these in turn can resonate with his main themes.†   (source)
  • Therefore it is necessary for him to have a mind ready to turn itself accordingly as the winds and variations of fortune force it, yet, as I have said above, not to diverge from the good if he can avoid doing so, but, if compelled, then to know how to set about it.†   (source)
  • My mother said people feared the Divergent because we couldn't be controlled.   (source)
    divergent = different
  • They thought everyone but the Divergent was unconscious, so they ran.   (source)
  • I didn't know that was an act of Divergence.   (source)
    divergence = quality of being different
  • Of course he couldn't tell me Uriah was Divergent.   (source)
    divergent = different
  • Every time I think the word "Divergent," I hear Tori's warning—and now my mother's warning too.   (source)
  • "Divergent rebels," Eric says, standing on one foot.   (source)
  • The purpose of our search would be to locate and remove any of the Divergent from the premises.   (source)
  • I am playing hide-and-seek with the Divergent, but I'm not the only person who's "it."   (source)
  • That means that everyone will be like Divergent in the fear landscape.   (source)
  • Just like the Dauntless leaders, she is sniffing around for the Divergent.   (source)
  • Now they'll find all the Divergent in the building, and most of us will die.   (source)
  • I dreamt that Peter tied me to a chair and asked me if I was Divergent.   (source)
  • The name you should give those people is Divergent.   (source)
  • Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population?   (source)
  • Is it being Divergent that makes me steady, or is it something else?   (source)
  • And that he will do anything to protect his faction, even if it means sacrificing the Divergent.   (source)
  • This is the perfect place for him to tell me that he is Divergent, if indeed that's what he is.   (source)
  • It's easier to think of biology than the line of the Divergent sitting between the elevators.   (source)
  • I didn't know that most of the Divergent came from Abnegation, and I don't know why that would be.   (source)
  • She is the danger Tori and my mother warned me about, the danger of being Divergent.   (source)
  • "One of them said something about the Divergent," she says.   (source)
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