They were arranged with perfect regularity, crossing one another at right angles; and from the great square diverged four principal streets connecting with the high roads of the empire.
The kingdom, conformably to its name, was divided into four parts, distinguished each by a separate title, and to each of which ran one of the four great roads that diverged from Cuzco, the capital or navel of the Peruvian monarchy.
As time went on the spoken language diverged farther and farther from the written.
They knew little of the traditions of the Roman Church anddiverged from its customs in some respects.
The Puritan race has ever been republican to the core, and this is one great and vital respect in which they have continually diverged from their Southern brethren.
Joe and Henri did the same, and having diverged a little to the different points chosen, they dashed through the shrubbery and were hid from each other's view.
On nearing the herd, the three men divergedfrom each other and selected their animals.
We diverged from the summit of the pass up some neighbouring heights to inspect the Grand Cornier, and I decided to have nothing to do with its northern side.
The Dent d'Erin had not been ascended at this time, and we had diverged from our route on the 4th, and had scrambled some distance up the base of Mont Brule, to see how far its south-western slopes were assailable.
They had met, and not known it, and now their paths diverged more widely every minute.
One dead camel's skeleton is uncommonly like another, and they lay about in various directions, showing that caravans converged to or diverged from El Obeid by different routes.
I became much interested in the worthy man before his pathdiverged from my own; and I flatter myself he reciprocated my regard, for he asked all manner of questions, and related all manner of anecdotes, questioned or not.
Thus advised, the second constable diverged to the right, and, plunging into the copsewood, was instantly out of sight.
The more scattered tribes, wandering into fresh regions, and adopting the life of hunters, lost the characteristics of civilization, and diverged widely from the primitive languages.
First, the three sons of Noah formed three main stems, and from these diverged several family branches.
This was the point where we ought to have diverged from the former course, did we intend to proceed first to Ravensnest; but, though all knew it, nothing was said on the subject.
The trail did not extend quite to the building, however, but diverged in a westerly direction, from a point that may have been a hundred yards distant from our habitation, though in full view of it.
Finally, from writing diverged printing; which, uniform in kind as it was at first, has since become multiform.
Over this plain, three roads or paths diverged from the place the men occupied.
At the point where the roads separate, therefore, we diverged from the main route, which properly leads to Lausanne, inclining southward.
We then diverged from the stream, ascended into a higher portion of undulating country, that gradually became less and less interesting, until, in the end, we all pronounced it the tamest and least inviting region we had yet seen in Europe.
After travelling a few miles, we reached a point where our own route diverged from the course of the Drance, which came in from the east, while we journeyed south.
From Biberich we divergeddirectly into the interior of the Rheingau, taking the road to Wiesbaden, which is a watering-place of some note, and the seat of government of the duchy.
The artillery diverged to the left, losing one gun in the donga which ran down the valley, and took post on the detached hill from which the Kissieberg ridge could be shelled.
Thus it was that when he diverged to the right or left it was shut from sight.
Instead of following the footprints, he diverged to the right and coursed along the edge of the clearing, where he was almost entirely concealed by the shadow of the trees.
As it was utterly out of the question to learn how far he had diverged from the path, it was also beyond his power to return to it--that is, so long as the night lasted.
In this case the torpedo is sufficiently diverged when near to the vessel with a good scope of tow rope out.
The general conception of fishing, as it appeared to the mind of speaker and hearers on the margin of the Lake of Galilee, diverged into two dissimilar branches as soon as it descended into practical detail.
Both spirits near the same time passed from this world by the same narrow passage; beyond the boundary their paths diverged in opposite directions.
During their descent they have diverged much in structure, but have retained much in common; and this has occurred, though they have passed through and still pass through marvellously different metamorphoses.
It is worth while to reflect for a moment on the character of the new species F14, which is supposed not to have diverged much in character, but to have retained the form of (F), either unaltered or altered only in a slight degree.
The branches ought to have diverged in all directions.
These five genera have also much in common, though less than when grouped in subfamilies; and they form a family distinct from that containing the three genera still further to the right hand, which diverged at an earlier period.
The wounded divergedtowards the river, with the intention of taking water at Peekskill, in order to be transported to the hospital of the American army above.
After walking at a great rate for three hours they suddenly diverged from the road, which inclined to the east, and held their course directly across the hills in a due south direction.
Night had set in before the reserve and irregulars reached the foot of Lundy's Lane,[140] a road that diverged from the river and crossed a conical eminence at no great distance from the Niagara highway.
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