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Значения термина excursive на английском

(Of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.

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Money was plenty among these excursive groups, and they were welcomed in
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
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At the concluding word, Mrs. Chump was no longer sustained by her excursive fancy.
Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete
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Nero politely routed an excursive bug from his path and lay down to listen.
Diane of the Green Van
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He liked the unaffected, quiet conversation of Manning, the vivacious, excursive talk of Leigh Hunt.
Charles Lamb: A Memoir
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This excursive time was an awakening for Swithin.
Two on a Tower
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I become, however, a trifle excursive, I think.
She Stands Accused
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But the argument is one of too grave, too intricate, and excursive a character, to be attempted here.
Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
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Fortunately I was too tired last night to be excursive in fancy, or I might have slept badly.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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Her excursive spirit, her inquisitive mind, were, after all, in spite of all differences, his gift to her.
The Precipice: A Novel
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Pope, Spenser, Chaucer, and the old dramatic writers were all dipped into, with the excursive flight of a swallow.
The Crayon Papers
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There he shows himself the same kind, artless, good-humored, excursive, sensible, whimsical, intelligent being that he appears in his writings.
Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography
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As his mind was capacious, his curiosity excursive, and his industry continual, his writings are very numerous and his subjects various.
Lives of the English Poets / Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, &c.
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On Fancy's eagle wing excursive soar;
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13,...
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While the two armies lay encamped in the neighbourhood of each other, nothing passed but skirmishes among the light troops, and little excursive expeditions.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro...
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The young mind of Colleton, excursive as it was, could scarcely realize to itself the strange and rapidly-succeeding changes of the last few days.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia
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With him she would have the free and useful, the amusing and excursive life of an American woman married to a man of wealth.
The Precipice: A Novel
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