digresses seriously from the purpose of the whole book by raking up the author's personal recollections of people that lived and events that happened right away back in the last century, and far away in the East.
"From a Terrace in Prague"
Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
That is why our uniform of blue and silver commands the respect that it does even in this day and age of softening and decadence, when men-but again an old man digresses.
"Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930"
Various
Mary digresses at some length on the change of manners in the French since the revolution of 1830, saying that they had lost so much of their pleasant agreeable manner, their Monsieur and Madame, which sounded so pretty.
"Mrs. Shelley"
Lucy M. Rossetti