All 8 Uses of
vary
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The movement grew more passionate: the fiddlers behind the luminous pillar of cloud now and then varied the air by playing on the wrong side of the bridge or with the back of the bow.†
Chpt 1varied = differed; or changed
- They did not vary their partners if their inclination were to stick to previous ones.†
Chpt 1 *vary = differ; or change
- The typical and unvarying Hodge ceased to exist.†
Chpt 3unvarying = consistent or the samestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvarying means not and reverses the meaning of varying. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- He had been disintegrated into a number of varied fellow-creatures—beings of many minds, beings infinite in difference; some happy, many serene, a few depressed, one here and there bright even to genius, some stupid, others wanton, others austere; some mutely Miltonic, some potentially Cromwellian—into men who had private views of each other, as he had of his friends; who could applaud or condemn each other, amuse or sadden themselves by the contemplation of each other's foibles or vices; men every one of whom walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death.†
Chpt 3varied = differed; or changed
- At first she would not look straight up at him, but her eyes soon lifted, and his plumbed the deepness of the ever-varying pupils, with their radiating fibrils of blue, and black, and gray, and violet, while she regarded him as Eve at her second waking might have regarded Adam.†
Chpt 4varying = differing; or changing
- When he spoke it was in the most inadequate, commonplace voice of the many varied tones she had heard from him.†
Chpt 5varied = differed; or changed
- The lane was long and unvaried, and, owing to the rapid shortening of the days, dusk came upon her before she was aware.†
Chpt 5unvaried = consistent or the samestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvaried means not and reverses the meaning of varied. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The day being the sixth of April, the Durbeyfield waggon met many other waggons with families on the summit of the load, which was built on a wellnigh unvarying principle, as peculiar, probably, to the rural labourer as the hexagon to the bee.†
Chpt 6unvarying = consistent or the samestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvarying means not and reverses the meaning of varying. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
to be different, or to change
Vary is often used to describe small differences or changes--especially about things of the same type. It would be more common to say "The weight of full-grown elephants varies depending upon diet and other factors," than to say "The weight of elephants varies from that of mice."