He had, as we have mentioned, been from his youth in the habit of diverting himself with composition.
The part which the Church played was not equally atrocious; but it must have been exquisitely diverting to a scoffer.
He had, it is plain, an uneasy consciousness of the frivolity of his favourite pursuits; and this consciousness produced one of the most diverting of his ten thousand affectations.
They also appear to have accompanied their songs with mimicry and action; and to have practised such various means of diverting as were much admired in those rude times, and supplied the want of more refined entertainment.
But the cellarer, sacrist, and others of the brethren, who had hoped to have been entertained with their diverting arts, &c.
In short, these kind of hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune, who may be considered as thus playing tricks with us, and wantonly diverting herself at our expense.
This Jones perceived to be no other than a barn, where a great number of men and women were assembled, and diverting themselves with much apparent jollity.
But as you know things present, here are my two reals, and tell me, most excellent sir ape, what is my wife Teresa Panza doing now, and what is she diverting herself with?
A great reason was that King Charles, the friend of the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires, aimed at diverting the eyes of his statesmen from the unredeemed Roumanians in Transylvania.
Fortunately the French naval authorities put a stop to this brigandage, and the honest guardians of the people only succeeded in diverting a few hundreds of thousands.
It will then be advisable to cut off the water-supply bydiverting the course of the small river which flows into Baalbek.
He told of his discovery of the water-tank, and said that his former advice regarding the diverting of the stream was no longer of practical value.
She did not talk about her brother, diverting the conversation as soon as her aunt mentioned Andrew.
A diverting one was a luncheon given to a delegation of the Japanese Red Cross headed by Prince Tokugawa.
Perhaps if Capuana had not been content with merely interesting and diverting the public, as he counselled Bracco to be, and had tried to teach them and lead them he would have greater renown.
He knows his potential and actual pleasures, and he reveals this understanding of his fellows to us in a diverting and instructive way and at the same time shows us idealistic vistas of life and conduct that are most refreshing.
In itself, as a tangible, apparent thing which she could touch and look upon, it was a diverting thing for a few days, but this soon passed.
Minnie pondered a while, not upon whether she could or would go for that point was already negatively settled with her-but upon some means of diverting the thoughts of her sister to some other topic.
She was again grieving over Smith's possible suicide, was again longing for the cheerful rattle of flattery and nonsense which rendered the Privileged Infant so diverting even to those who hated him, much more to her who loved him.
And with the freedom that belongs to the frontier, the company begun to discuss dietetics, the fat gentleman roundly abusing the food for the express purpose, as Charlton thought, of diverting attention from his voracious eating of it.
Beyond this he was witty and diverting in his conversation, and given to the telling of stories and strange occurrences well worth notice.
I was presently interrupted in these reflections by a circumstance which proved in the end diverting enough, though far from reassuring at the first blush.
Ye tire parti de tout ce gue je puis'; that is my philosophy; and I mitigate, as much as I can, my physical ills by diverting my attention to other objects.
Never yield to that temptation, which to most young men is very strong; of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or showing your own superiority.
Take my advice; cast all care aside, and only think of diverting yourself for a month at least.
It was Mr. Petulengro, who was here diverting himself with several of his comrades; they all received me with considerable frankness.
A more real evil was the divertingof studious men from mathematical science.
With this view he engaged Wisner in conversation, and while divertinghis attention, struck him dead in an instant, and unperceived, with his hatchet.
Matta, severely reprimanded for his dangerous impertinence, confessed that a brush between the opposing forces outside would have been a diverting conclusion to the evening.
His schoolfellow, Mr. Hector, has assured me that he never knew him corrected at school but for talking and diverting other boys from their business.
The ingenious Scudery has likewise built upon this foundation, in his diverting Romance called the Grand Cyrus.
In this way the Jesuit became one of the most zealous of helpers in carrying out the French program for diverting to Montreal the entire fur trade of the western regions.
Their very livelihood, indeed, depended on their success in diverting the flow of the fur trade through the Iroquois territories, for by the middle of the seventeenth century there were no beavers left in their own country.
Governments have been very resourceful in parrying agitation, in diverting it, in seeming to yield to it, and then cheating it of its objects, in tiring it out or evading it .
As President Wilson wrote, `Governments have been very successful in parrying agitation, diverting it, in seeming to yield to it and then cheating it, tiring it out or evading it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diverting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
