Let us therefore get with us divers of these outlaws.

He is a great diver in the streams or issues of gentry, and hot a by-channel or bastard escapes him; yea he does with them like some shameless quean, fathers more children on them than ever they begot.

With point and edge, thrust and cut, he beat down many, and put divers to flight.

Jack Diver with a scowling look, turned his horse round with some difficulty.

"You can kiss the Book on that, for we ain't a diver among us.

He then loosed his divers from the poles, on which they went into the water, and in less than an hour, they caught as many fish as filled the three baskets.

This opinion was much in favour with divers devout females of the deacon's congregation, who had daughters of their own, and who seldom failed to conclude their observations on this interesting subject with some such remark as, "Well, in that case, and it seems to me that every thing points that way, Mary Pratt will get no more than any other poor man's daughter.

I am no pocketeer, no diver into slopps: yet you may please to empty them your selfe, good Don, in recompense of the sweet life I give you; you understand me well.

Tupia proved himself an excellent pilot, with great knowledge of the localities, and, having sent down a diver at Huaheine to ascertain the exact draught of the ship, he was very careful she never went into less than five fathoms of water.

These fames took hold of divers; in some upon discontent, in some upon ambition, in some upon levity and desire of change, and in some few upon conscience and belief, but in most upon simplicity, and in divers out of dependence upon some of the better sort, who did in secret favor and nourish these bruits.

Divers as nice, Like this odd vice, Are word-makers daily.

"This meeting, having reason to apprehend that divers under our name are concerned in the unchristian traffic in Negros, doth recommend it earnestly to the care of Friends every where, to discourage, as much as in them lies, a practice so repugnant to our Christian profession; and to deal with all such as shall persevere in a conduct so reproachful to Christianity; and to disown them, if they desist not therefrom.

The tall man bent his back and his knees like a diver about to spring, but before he could move, I had jumped with drawn sabre in front of him.