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Various adj.

Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors. "So many and so various laws are given." "A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild."

Changeable; uncertain; inconstant; variable. "A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome." "The names of mixed modes... are very various."

Variegated; diversified; not monotonous. "A happy rural seat of various view."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Various" Quotes from Famous Books

... with the executive officer, Christy took his leave mentally of the flag-ship, and the few other vessels that were on the station; for most of them were on duty in various expeditions engaged in the destruction of salt works. A boat expedition had just captured Appalachicola, with all the vessels loading with cotton in the bay. The young commander congratulated himself that ...

— Stand By The Union - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat • Oliver Optic

... clearly enough that there must be some covert motive for such deep and unaccountable anxiety: he dexterously set forth the various arguments that might be urged by government against a man of Dalton's character; the ill example, the dangerous precedent of one so circumstanced taking his place amongst honourable men, and so forth; mooting a variety of points, ...

— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall

... could he do? Rapidly he turned over in his mind the various courses open to him. Should he try to stun Arima with a blow, and then reach forward and take the steering-wheel before the car could ...

— The Girl and The Bill - An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure • Bannister Merwin

... plant, the fish, the bird, the human being. In the book "What a Young Girl Ought to Know" we discussed how all life originates in an egg, and why there must needs be fathers as well as mothers. We found that some eggs were small, were laid by the mothers in various places, and then left to develop or to die. Others were larger, covered with a large shell, and kept warm by the mothers sitting over them until the little ones were hatched. Others were so small that ...

— What a Young Woman Ought to Know • Mary Wood-Allen

... there were tears in her eyes. The misery of the whole thing was too dreadful to her! The lantern itself must, she thought, have been made when the invention was in its infancy, and its pictured slides seemed the remnants of various outworn series. Those of the Rake's Progress were something too hideous and lamentable to be dwelt upon. And the ruinous, wretched old man did not merely seem to have taken to this as a last effort, but to have in his dotage turned back upon his life ...

— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald

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