Diverted

Examples

• Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She talked away all the time the man clipped, and diverted my mind nicely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Are you not diverted? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I diverted them from that point to Washington, which place they reached, almost simultaneously with Wright, on the 11th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I left them at the bottom of the pit as long as they diverted me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• That she would never waver in it, never be diverted from it, never relinquish it, while there was any chance of hope. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mr. Cruncher's attention was here diverted to the door-keeper, whom he saw making his way to Mr. Lorry, with the note in his hand. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Diverted energy means loss of power and confusion of ideas. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The Chorus were excessively nervous, perhaps as labouring under the dreadful apprehension that some good thing was going to be diverted from them! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• That it is hard, said Mrs. Coiler, to have dear Mr. Pocket's time and attention diverted from dear Mrs. Pocket. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The studied indifference, insolence, and discontent of her husband gave her no pain; and when he scolded or abused her, she was highly diverted. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I have been for a moment,' said the Secretary, turning from him and falling into his former manner, 'diverted from the little I have to say. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The pursuit from the Asylum, diverted to Hampshire for the time only, would infallibly next take the direction of Cumberland. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr. Guppy's mother was so diverted that she rolled her head as she smiled and made a silent appeal to Caddy with her elbow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them; but all sense of pleasure was lost in shame. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• One cannot but say that the less his attention is diverted from his work, the better for his future. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In some degree, also, they diverted my mind from the thoughts over which it had brooded for the last month. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I do not mean that it ceased even then, but that my attention was then diverted into a current very memorable to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Through it the direct fall o f particles may be diverted into a circular movement about the center toward which they are gravitati ng. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• How angry and how diverted he would be! Jane Austen. Emma.

Typist: Sharif