Deviations

Examples

• If strange and rare deviations of structure are truly inherited, less strange and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• On the contrary, it tends to suppress them, just because they are deviations from what is current. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The symbols are thus made by deviations from the straight line, of different lengths and of varied combinations. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Differences of temperature and density of the parts of the original mass account for the eccentricity of orbits, and deviations fro m the plane of the equator. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The staircase was as wooden and solid as need be, and Affery went straight down it without any of those deviations peculiar to dreams. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The teachers' business is to hold the pupils up to these requirements and to punish the inevitable deviations which occur. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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