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Example sentences for "deviated"

Lexicographically close words:
devenu; dever; devers; devez; deviate; deviates; deviating; deviation; deviations; device
  1. The reviewers might have extended their remarks to many other instances, in which he has deviated from general practice and from every rule of the language.

  2. In giving a its first sound therefore, the modern English have not only infringed the rule of analogy, but have deviated from former practice.

  3. The translators deviated from the original Greek, in changing the modes; and the Bishop has taken their error, as the foundation of a distinction which does not exist in the language.

  4. Grace now turned towards me, releasing her hold of Lucy's neck, from pure inability to sustain it; and she fastened her serene blue eyes on my countenance, whence they never deviated while she breathed.

  5. But in his private life he soon deviated from the strict rule of frugality and abstinence; and the plebeians, who were awed by the splendor of the nobles, were provoked by the luxury of their equal.

  6. From Attok to Delhi, the high road measures no more than six hundred miles; but the two conquerors deviated to the south-east; and the motive of Timour was to join his grandson, who had achieved by his command the conquest of Moultan.

  7. How have I deviated from those principles, monsieur?

  8. But I am sure that the count does not regret having once deviated from the principles he has so boldly avowed.

  9. But you go and say at the store that I deviated from the line of survey and saved one furlong, seven poles, and five feet of levee.

  10. Their drawing, colouring, and composition deviated from everything hitherto accounted as art, and yet the aesthetic character of these works was too artistic to permit of any one smiling over them as curiosities.

  11. In his later period he deviated more and more towards a fragrant lyricism.

  12. From hence to the Seara-meirim, the country was new to me, as I deviated from the road by which I had arrived at Açu, on my way northwards.

  13. I deviated on my return to Aracati, in some measure, from the road by which I had travelled to Searà.

  14. This man and one other were the only persons of those I heard preach in Brazil, who deviated from the common praises usually given to the Virgin and to the Saints.

  15. At that point the trachea was noted to be deviated slightly to the left and I found it necessary to sever the exterior strap muscles on the other side to reach the trachea.

  16. Since I observed only two wounds in my cursory examination, it would have necessitated the missile striking probably a bony structure and being deviated in its course in order to account for these two wounds.

  17. His eyes were open, deviated up and outward, and the pupils were dilated and fixed.

  18. To that end Kutuzov's activity was directed during the whole campaign from Moscow to Vilna--not casually or intermittently but so consistently that he never once deviated from it.

  19. He did not think of doubting Freemasonry itself, but suspected that Russian Masonry had taken a wrong path and deviated from its original principles.

  20. I observe too in proof of my opinion, that the Spartans gradually lost their virtue, and afterwards their liberty, only so far as they deviated from the institutions of their legislator.

  21. How greatly they deviated from this rectitude of manners, after these infidel tenets had taken root amongst them, we may learn from Cicero, in his orations and epistles.

  22. She never deviated from this measure, and used only the tainted water, which was the ordinary beverage of the common sailors.

  23. Of this we are certain, that, at an early period, she became a practical Christian, and never deviated from the principles she then imbibed.

  24. I had frequently deviated from a straight direction for the sake of avoiding impediments.

  25. Since the birth of this continent, I was probably the first who had deviated thus remotely from the customary paths of men.

  26. Sarsefield's engagements compelled him to prosecute his journey into Virginia, from which he had somewhat deviated in order to visit Solesbury.

  27. Not to be caught without the possible key to the deviated case, the right man in place will know such as his Freud and Kraaft-Ebing.

  28. Contrariwise, the deviated criminal is a grossly overdrawn type of the genus homo.

  29. Great as these advantages were, it is not to be supposed that Nature deviated from her gradual progress in the developement of human faculties, in favour of the Greeks.

  30. He must therefore have deviated from all his great confraternity, in concealing his name, his date, and the circumstances or great men of his times.

  31. The last annotator on Vasari prefers this work to many other pictures of Mecherino, and laments, that, captivated by the energy of Bonarruoti, he had deviated from his original manner.

  32. She in no way deviated from the scrupulous politeness of a hostess.

  33. She was a brave and determined woman; from start to finish she behaved as though nothing whatever in the household except her pastry and Mr. Povey had deviated that day from the normal.

  34. They were to review the Confession in order to learn whether any one deviated in any article or disapproved of anything.

  35. In fact Bertric himself, and the other kings, after Ina, though glorying in the splendour of their parentage, as deriving their origin from Cerdic, had considerably deviated from the direct line of the royal race.

  36. The travellers saw themselves insensibly lowered towards the bottom, and Barbicane thought he remarked that the conical end of the projectile deviated slightly from the normal direction towards the moon.

  37. But we ought to have reached our goal, and in order to have reached it we ought not to have deviated from our road.

  38. It has deviated to the side, but near enough to be detained by lunar attraction.

  39. Her susceptible mind and tender frame, overcome by the severity of the scenes she had gone through, and oppressed by consciousness of having deviated from her duty, sunk under her afflictive situation.


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