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The expansion of criticism in the same thirty years was not a whit less marked than the vast divagation of the novel.

He had an unconquerable and sometimes very irritating habit of digression, of divagation, of aside.

They are not very easy to select from, for their author's singular tendency to divagation affects them.

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Yet it is this very divagation that is called reason, wisdom, morality.

In his finest passages, as in his most trivial, he is at the mercy of the will-o'-the-wisp of divagation.

With such hints for divagation, let us resume our way down the river, henceforth navigable by barges and bridled by locks.

SURREYA.R. HOPE MONCRIEFF

One would like to have Mr. Arnold's reply to this divagation on Don Quixote.

That ended the Russian divagation, and it had the effect of making the table-talk impersonal.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985