divagate

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So does a child's balloon divagate upon the currents of the air, and touch, and slide off again from every obstacle.

From Across the Plains by Stevenson, Robert Louis

So does a child's balloon divagate upon the currents of the air, and touch and slide off again from every obstacle.

From A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools by Lubbock, Percy

If it can be done in prose - that is the puzzle - I divagate again.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

So does a child’s balloon divagate upon the currents of the air, and touch and slide off again from every obstacle.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

If it can be done in prose—that is the puzzle—I divagate again.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis