Divers Quotes
Divers quotes here blend two very different meanings of the word: the archaic English sense of 'divers' meaning various or several, found in older royal and religious writing, and the modern sense of scuba divers working with navies around the world for maritime security. One historical line even uses 'divers men' to describe multiple people who know the speaker. It's a rare case where an old and new meaning sit side by side.
These divers quotes mix archaic English usage with modern lines about scuba divers and naval operations. For more historical language, see our About collection.
I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they...
So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
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There are some great divers in Europe and I'm really excited about going to Eindhoven.
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The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.
Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally...
As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.
I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.
