Diversions
[daɪ'vɝʒən]
Examples
- There is no reason, however, for using them merely as agreeable diversions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I would exactly set down the several changes in customs, language, fashions of dress, diet, and diversions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A river bank may be beautiful and teeming with diversions, but if the river is used as a source of drinking water, the results will almost always be fatal to some. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Edison's diversions in Cincinnati were chiefly those already observed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Bull-fights are among the favorite diversions of the Spaniards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great numbers are on record. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Public diversions have always been the objects of dread and hatred to all the fanatical promoters of those popular frenzies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The second of those remedies is the frequency and gaiety of public diversions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The diversions of the court of Lilliput described. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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