...They strove by all the means in their power to divert him from such an unlucky scheme; but it was all preaching in the desert and hammering cold iron...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...Buckle on the spur no longer,Never mount again a charger,Eat no white bread at your table,Ne'er divert yourself with ladies...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...Jellyband?” asked Jimmy Pitkin, in a loyal attempt to divert hishost’s attention from the circumstances connected with Sally’s exitfrom the room...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
... “And yet, sire, I shall require you, if you please, to go out presently and divert your impatience by a good walk...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...—Sucking calves should be removed from the mother, and apurgative given to the latter to divert the poisonous substance secreted withthe milk...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...“No, father,” cried Mark eagerly jumping at the chance of saying something to divert his father’s smouldering anger; “a poor English sailor...
George Manville Fenn 「Dead Man's Land」
...This water the natives divert to their miniature cornfields and orchards, one or two freshets assuring good crops...
Edward S. Curtis 「The North American Indian」
...Here are nodetails to divert the attention from motherhood, pure and simple...
Estelle M. Hurll 「The Madonna in Art」
...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...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
... “how Barter keepshis apes with men’s brains fromtrying to break away from himwhen he has to divert his mentalcontrol to other channels?”...
Arthur J. Burks 「The Mind Master」
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