| 1. | Criminal diversion I think that yes. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 2. | My walk home was lengthened by a diversion in the direction of the kirk. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 3. | Thereto I willingly agree, If the diversion pleasant be. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| 4. | His humor is not mere funniness and diversion he is a humorist in the fundamental and large sense, as are Cervantes, Rabelais, and Mark Twain. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 5. | As far as I can see, it will be your chief diversion hereafter unless Linton make amends for other losses and your provident parent appears to fancy he may. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 6. | some diversion All that I can anon I will you tell, Since he is gone the foule fiend him quel. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 7. | A sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless some diversion shall arise. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street created a diversion Gavroche shouted to him-. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | La Rochelle, deprived of the assistance of the English fleet and of the diversion promised by Buckingham, surrendered after a siege of a year. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 10. | If his mate is averse to his diversions each goes his own way. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 11. | On the other hand, one's preferences in the matter of diversions are born in him, part and parcel of his very being and remain so to the end of his life. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 12. | Social affairs of an exclusive order where he wears his "best bib and tucker" and everybody else does the same, are amongst the favorite diversions of this type. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 13. | The following are the things to be done occasionally as diversions or amusements. - from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana |
| 14. | Public diversions have always been the objects of dread and hatred to all the fanatical promoters of those popular frenzies. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 15. | A limited time should be devoted to diversions with Pithamardas, Vitas, and Vidushakas, and then should be taken the midday sleep. - from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana |
| 16. | He fell into a deep melancholy, and neither went to see the opera, nor any of the other diversions of the Carnival nay, he was proof against the temptations of all the ladies. - from Candide by Voltaire |
| 17. | The gaiety and good humour which those diversions inspire, were altogether inconsistent with that temper of mind which was fittest for their purpose, or which they could best work upon. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |