In front the ground is open, a sort of natural lawn leading down to the lake; only here and there a tree diversifies its smooth surface.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
Even no two of the commonest men does she make alike; her men of genius she diversifies at once grandly and delicately, broadly and subtly.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert
But whatever it be, which interferes to prevent the enjoyment of prosperity ever being pure and sincere, and still diversifies human affairs with the mixture of good and bad, whether fortune or divine displeasure, or the necessity of the nature of things, within a few days Marius received an account of his colleague, Catulus, which as a cloud in serenity and calm, terrified Rome with the apprehension of another imminent storm.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh