She said she had liked her from the beginning, and more than ever, now that she had really come to the conclusion that her husband was the kind who sets his wife an example by being a bit Divaricating himself.
"The Husbands of Edith"
George Barr McCutcheon
It had a soft down cushion, covered with a damask patterned patch of wild and Divaricating device; and its rockers were short, giving a jerk and thud if you leaned to and fro in it, like the trot an old nurse gives a child in an ordinary, four-legged, impracticable seat.
"The Other Girls"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney