divagate

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The rural afternoon, especially, when he smoked and grubbed and divagated as he pleased, was alone enough to make the five-and-twenty years of "swink" worth while.

From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Owen's thoughts divagated suddenly, and he thought of the pain Harding would experience were he suddenly flung into Bohemian society.

From Sister Teresa by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Nine columns blindly zigzagged and divagated to false scents and imperfect information in chase of one man encumbered with a civil government on the run and several hundred wagons.

From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by

Sometimes, indeed, it has been shy of it, and has divagated from it in wide circles; but, as soon as it becomes profound and humble again, it always returns.

From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by Stalker, James