At the same time it is well to remember that the parables stand apparently half-way between the narratives and the sayings, as regards the willingness of the evangelists to deviate from the wording found before them.
Tho both of them deviate from this order for assignable reasons, one or the other of them is found following it all the time.
But if they manage well, the rate of interest will not deviate so much from the average rate; it will neither ascend so high nor descend so low.
And then we may be sure that old men of business would not deviate from the code.
Proudly and piously spoke the Luzerners: They would follow their forefathers in everything, in adherence to the Federal Compact, and in love, but only when it did not deviate from the faith.
One golden rule, however, I had adopted, and never suffered myself to deviate from, viz.
Right signifies originally that which follows a straight course or does not deviate from the true standard, as in the expressions "right ahead," "to be in the right.
But the military genius of Miltiades led him to deviateon this occasion from the commonplace tactics of his countrymen.
He had heard much of Tellurian attractions; but he was fortunately not of a warm temperament, and he would never so far deviate from the orbit of moral rectitude as to yield to them.
Phoenician settlements, in the west of the Mediterranean, Carthage was moved to deviate from the policy of the parent cities, and to make herself the champion, protector, and mistress of the Phoenician dependencies in all that region.
In the attainment of public ends, he would not deviate from a straightforward course.
There are a few only that deviate from the general plan of the single walk dividing the beds and ending in a summer house, vine-clad, where the Colonial dames during the summer months held afternoon teas.
Here we deviate from the stilted idea of paths and introduce stone steps.
I must not deviate from the rule I have laid down for myself, to see as little as possible of her until after my ordination.
The stubbornness of our language has sometimes forced me to deviate from the conditional into the indicative mood.
His journey was regulated by the guides, who obliged him to halt, to hasten his march, or to deviate from the common road, as it best suited the convenience of the king.
The boomerang, a thin curved missile, can be thrown by a skilful hand so as to rise upon the air and thus to deviatefrom the ordinary path of projectiles, its crooked course being nevertheless equally under control.
Nor does God deviate from his rectitude of nature in matters of inspiration, revelation or instruction to the moral world, any more than in that of his government of the natural.
A general observation by practical students of conduct, namely, that females tend to deviate from the truth more readily than males, is more than thoroughly borne out here.
From the standpoint of aberration one could find no evidences of anything but eroticism and a constant tendency to deviatefrom the truth.
But we should deviate from the design of this history, if we attempted minutely to describe the different buildings or quarters of the city.
The narrow and solitary path which their first leaders had marked out, continued todeviate from the great society of mankind.
The eulogies of the frantic hero in Maud, however, deviate into grosser folly.
This feat they accomplish because they cannot well deviate from the beaten path.
The taint of partridge would be almost sure to make him deviate from the true line on which you are anxious he should work.
From a brother of mine, who at one time occupied rooms in the same house with him, I learned that in other respects he did not deviate in his prosperity from the philosophic tenor of his former life.
In what degree each party is right, may be judged from this consideration --that no word can ever deviate from its first meaning per saltum: each successive stage of meaning must always have been determined by that which preceded.
Did a young unmarried lady deviate from the path of virtue, or did a husband detect the infidelity of his wife, the culprit was forthwith consigned to the care of the abbess, and forced to take up her abode in that monastic institution.
It was now two o'clock in the morning, and he had already described an immense circuit from the point where he had begun to deviate from a direct course.
On, on went the Wehr-Wolf; but now his course began to deviatefrom the right line which he had hitherto pursued, and to assume a curved direction.
If the trade in the precious metals were perfectly free, if they were generally used in circulation, even with the expenses of transporting them, the exchange could never in any of them deviate more from par, than by these expenses.
However much the market price of labour maydeviate from its natural price, it has, like commodities, a tendency to conform to it.
The inclination of English courts has been to construe clauses giving a liberty to deviate somewhat strictly against the shipowner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deviate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
