Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...these persons is of an inventive turn of mind, he might have his name handed down to posterity as the inventor of some kind of minute fishing-tackle by which these sportive creatures could be caught. The fishing could be engaged in between courses (?), and might divert the minds of all from unpleasant contemplation...