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It will divert your thoughts," she added, addressing Natasha. [2]
Neither our comforting words nor your father's good advice--neither offerings nor prayers--could avail to lessen her grief or divert her mind. [10]
Down from the west, through hills that crowded on either side to divert it from its course, ran the sparkling Deerfield, from among the springs and trout streams of the Hoosac, merrily going on to the great Connecticut. [4]
To loosen it was to divert the slide away, or partly away, from the little house. [11]
Cleopatra noticed what was passing in her brother's mind, and in order to interrupt his further speech and to divert his mind to fresh thoughts, she said cheerfully: "Let us then give up the procession, and think of some other mode of celebrating your birthday. [10]
She had refused to see him again before the battle, that she might not divert his thoughts from the great task approaching. [10]
It suddenly occurred to me how I could divert his mind until I could fall back upon my military base. [4]
It was only to divert her suspicions that the false woman had been so affectionate at parting. [10]
He must not think to divert us from our purpose by showing us that our drill, our dress, and our weapons are not entirely perfect and uniform. [7]
In both cases they flowed in ruts worn deep by time and habit, and the man who should have proposed to divert them by reason and argument would have had a long contract on his hands. [5]
Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performance of the pieties enjoined by the Church. [5]
The second is the absence of all business and conversation of friends, which might divert your mind, give it occasional rest from the intensity of thought which will sometimes wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death. [7]
Orion must believe that she had done him a wrong; still, could that make him so far forget himself as to carry out his threats, and sacrifice an innocent man--to divert suspicion from himself, while he branded her as a false witness? [10]
And I reflected that his indulgence in pleasure-seeking would serve the more to divert any suspicions which might fall upon my own head. [9]
I should think that any formula that would divert the mind from unwholesome channels and force it into healthy ones would answer every purpose with some people, though not with all. [5]
Nay, her heart swelled with grateful joy because she had been so patient and suffered nothing to divert her from the arduous duty which she had undertaken in nursing the old man, who regarded her with such disfavour. [10]
Even as I spoke I saw that my doom was sealed, except a miracle supervened to divert these madmen from their fell purpose. [5]
The outer door shut, and Stafford turned again to the little room where so much had happened which must change so many lives, bring so many tears, divert so many streams of life. [11]
Even Pyramus Kogel's short letter, informing her of her father's convalescence, and the news from the seat of war which Frau Traut communicated to her to divert her thoughts, and which she had usually anticipated with impatient expectation, awakened only a fleeting interest. [10]
Henderson had a new object in life, though the new one did not sensibly divert him from the old; it rather threw a charming light over it, and made the possibilities of it more attractive. [4]
Then the listener must be alert, for in many cases the teller will divert attention from that nub by dropping it in a carefully casual and indifferent way, with the pretense that he does not know it is a nub. [5]
Then the listener must be alert, for in many cases the teller will divert attention from that nub by dropping it in a carefully casual and indifferent way, with the pretence that he does not know it is a nub. [5]
There was so much here below to divert her attention. [10]
Henrica sought to meet the Junker's glance, but always in vain, yet she wished to divert his attention from the young wife, and it tortured her to remain unnoticed. [10]
Take as an item novels, the works of fiction, which have become an absolute necessity in the modern world, as necessary to divert the mind loaded with care and under actual strain as to fill the vacancy in otherwise idle brains. [4]
Did he mean it to divert her from the pain of the separation, to give her something to hope for? [11]
I say this, in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose. [7]
On the contrary, if you are opposed to the principle,--intend to give it no such indorsement, let no wheedling, no sophistry, divert you from throwing a direct vote against it. [7]
He would divert his thoughts by examining the site which Gorgias had chosen. [10]
He could divert himself, or rest, or work, and consider his business affairs with interest and amusement, instead of with haggard anxiety. [5]
Neforis was doing her best to entertain the mother of her son's future bride, and divert her attention from his strange demeanor. [10]
His trifling with Heliodora could but divert him from the high aim he had set before himself. [10]
More than that, he would denounce me to the other couriers, they would divert custom from me, and my business would be injured. [5]
Doubtless a small force of the enemy is flourishing about in the northern part of Virginia, on the "skewhorn" principle, on purpose to divert us in another quarter. [7]
She longed only for something to divert her thoughts from the deep and bitter emotion which filled her soul. [10]
He had a deep-seeing eye, and he saw that she was boldly trying to divert his belief or suspicion. [11]
I shall pass by every wicked means that you took first to ruin me, to divert me to a dishonest love (though I knew not what you meant at the time), and, failing, to make me your wife. [11]
The shot had been too late to stop the lance, but sufficient to divert its course. [11]
For two reasons: because it was itself in bad odour, and hoped by this trial to divert public attention from its own dirty position; and because he had against him not only his personal enemy, but those who wanted to hit the Company through him. [11]
That'll divert their attention from you. [11]
She was still asleep and, without permitting either curiosity or longing to divert her from her duty, Els kept her place beside the couch of the beloved invalid, spite of the fire alarm which, though somewhat subdued, was heard in the room. [10]
His mind was always busy with the catastrophe of his life, and with the slaughtered inventor, and he now took the fancy that he would like to have the telelectroscope and divert his mind with it. [5]

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