Greece, too, diverts itself with rustic rounds, as formless as in other lands.
All Niagara may roar past a man's door, but only as much as he diverts through his own sluice will drive his mill, or quench his thirst.
Like other writers he often adorns his own words with the citation of those of others without being very careful as to whether he, in some measure, diverts these from their original intention.
Under this Head we may reckon those Excursions of another kind, in which the Poet, by some sudden Allusion or Comparison, diverts from his Subject to a new Matter, and immediately returns to it again.
He diverts himself with Study, but does not study himself lean.
I think that God has given it to me, not for my salvation only, but for my rest; it does not serve me only to pray to God and gather myself together, but it diverts my mind; it makes me forget those other things.
When the king dislikes to say a thing directly to any one, he addresses his speech to me; he knows very well that I don't constrain myself in conversation, and that diverts him.
Could we poor mortals just as readily blot out of our lives whatever diverts attention from the real good that is in us, how differently would we appear to others.
Thereupon the artist took a brush and blotted out the cup, saying, "I meant that the figure of Christ should first and mainly attract the observer's eye, and whatever diverts attention from him must be blotted out.
But so long as the bitterness of sectarian prejudice diverts the attention of men from the chief thing, these antitheses are not clearly expressed and energetically developed.
T is fate diverts our course, and fate we must obey.
In the midst of the excitement, one of the hacks deliberately lies down, and thus diverts the captain's attention from the driver.
Not the faintest breath of wind diverts from the perpendicular the downfall of rain.
The object of lawyers is not, indeed, to overthrow the institutions of democracy, but they constantly endeavor to give it an impulse which diverts it from its real tendency, by means which are foreign to its nature.
The state of civilization is therefore insufficient by itself to explain what suggests to the human mind the love of general ideas, or diverts it from them.
The attention which they unceasingly devote to important public affairs diverts them from the lesser cares which trade and manufactures demand.
I am persuaded that in the end democracy diverts the imagination from all that is external to man, and fixes it on man alone.
The principle of equality not only diverts men from the description of ideal beauty--it also diminishes the number of objects to be described.
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
The discharge of political duties appears to them to be a troublesome annoyance, which diverts them from their occupations and business.
The tumultuous and constantly harassed life which equality makes men lead, not only distracts them from the passion of love, by denying them time to indulge in it, but it diverts them from it by another more secret but more certain road.
Thus democracy not only swells the number of workingmen, but it leads men to prefer one kind of labor to another; and whilst it diverts them from agriculture, it encourages their taste for commerce and manufactures.
It said that no fault, no denial, bars or diverts Christ's love.
The earth, by reason of lateral eminences of the stronger globe, diverts iron and loadstone by some degrees from the true pole, or true meridian.
But circumstance, that master of the ceremonies, as Madame Brancka termed it, who directs the menuet de la cour of life, and who often diverts himself by letting it degenerate into a dance of death, willed it otherwise.
Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world, Than calling it at moments back to this.
This Humour is so moderate in each of them, that it proceeds no farther than to an agreeable Raillery, which very often diverts the rest of the Club.
The Difference is, that in a Lad of Genius these are only so many Accomplishments, which in another are Essentials; the one diverts himself with them, the other works at them.
He diverts himself likewise by representing to his Reader the Make of an Engine and Pully, with which he used to take off his Hat.
Thus every one diverts himself with some Person or other that is below him in Point of Understanding, and triumphs in the Superiority of his Genius, whilst he has such Objects of Derision before his Eyes.
Every desire fixes attention upon beliefs favourable to it, and upon any evidence favourable to them, and diverts attention from conflicting beliefs and considerations.
Some quiet occupation, interesting yet not too interesting, that diverts the mind from the thoughts about itself and about sleep possibilities, yet does not excite it, is the best possible auxiliary and preparation for sleep.
This humour is so moderate in each of them, that it proceeds no farther than to an agreeable rallery, which very often diverts the rest of the club.
This enduring attention is perhaps to be accounted for from their want of reflection, which so frequently diverts man from dwelling on the objects of his senses.
If it were allowable to indulge in analogical reasoning, which usually diverts us from the consideration of the subject, we might endeavour to illustrate this process by the firing of a pistol.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diverts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
