The book fell upon her knees, and dreamily she watched the perspective open and divaricate.
"Parrot & Co."
Harold MacGrath
To get up again, his most successful way was to make a run from behind and divaricate on to the horse's tail, like a boy playing at leap-frog; but the beast was always frightened, and bolted before he was well on.
"Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman"
Giberne Sieveking