1097 examples of diversions in sentences

[Sidenote: Lady Bobby's Diversions] Dearest Mamma,I shall be home with you almost as soon as you get this.

Social diversions in Washington.

You well know how all this has happened (by diversions and misappropriations of the funds at Washington).

And Jim Perris was glad of the diversions.

If our readers will bear us company a few steps, through ways which shall have diversions enough to forbid weariness, we will endeavor to satisfy them that these apparent fables are very near to every-day truths.

There are few diversions.

He had had no opportunity, at least no tenable excuse, to kill or maim a negro since the termination of his contract with the state for convicts, and this occasion had awakened a dormant appetite for these diversions.

TOOKE, JOHN HORNE, A. M.; "Epea Pteroenta; or, the Diversions of Purley;" 2 vols., 8vo; pp.

"Tooke's Diversions of Purley, Vol.

The great work of the learned etymologist John Horne Tooke, consists of two octavo volumes, entitled, "EPEA PTEROENTA, or the Diversions of Purley."

The common grammarians were less confuted by him, than many of his readers have imagined; and it ought not to be forgotten that his purpose was as different from theirs, as are their schemes of Grammar from the plan of his critical "Diversions."

"Tooke's Diversions, Vol.

"Tooke's Diversions, ii, 441.

"Tooke's Diversions, ii, 445.

"Diversions of Purley, Vol.

"Diversions of Purley, Vol.

"Diversions of Purley, Vol.

These, and seventeen other examples of the same kind, may be seen in Tooke's Diversions of Purley, Vol.

"Diversions of Purley, Vol.

I think I was now in the twenty-third year of my reign, and my thoughts much easier than formerly, having contrived several pretty amusements and diversions to pass away the time in a pleasant manner.

This happy Region was peopled with innumerable Swarms of Spirits, who applied themselves to Exercises and Diversions according as their Fancies led them.

She lives in the World, and denies her self none of the Diversions of it, with a constant Declaration how insipid all things in it are to her.

She went to Vienna and there remained three other years, making many friends and painting industriously until the spirit of unrest drove her to seek new diversions, and she went to Russia.

By the bye, Martyn and Mary come home to-morrow, and I am very glad of it, for those evening diversions on the beach go on in full force, and though there is nothing tangible, except Charley's smoke, to object to, and it is the present way of young people, there is something unsatisfactory in it.

Saturday, March 2.I have made a gain, no doubt, in one respect in coming here, dear E, for, not being afraid of a rearing stallion, I can ride; but, on the other hand, my aquatic diversions are all likely, I fear, to be much curtailed.

1097 examples of  diversions  in sentences