Literary notes about varied (AI summary)
The word "varied" is employed in literature to evoke a sense of diversity and transformation that enriches the narrative. It can describe textures and appearances, as in a richly embroidered belt or a landscape of shifting hues [1, 2, 3], while also denoting differences in quantity or manner, whether referring to the fluctuation of daily measures or the irregularity in the size of structures [4, 5, 6]. At times it underscores the multifaceted nature of human behavior and thought, capturing the unpredictable facets of character or the multiplicity of ideas through dynamic descriptions [7, 8, 9]. In scientific and historical discourses, the term indicates measurable changes or variations across different conditions [10, 11, 12], whereas in poetic works it lends an evocative quality that celebrates the abundant and ever-changing beauty of nature and art [13, 14, 15]. This diverse usage, spanning from vivid imagery to precise technical discussion, exemplifies how “varied” enriches textual expression across genres and eras [16, 17, 18].
- Stiff with the rich embroider'd work around, My varied belt repell'd the flying wound.
— from The Iliad by Homer - Here, however, if we hoped for a picturesque and varied landscape, we should receive a great disappointment.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - This portion of the sea is very picturesque, and has a charm of its own even in this land of fine and varied scenery.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - I apprehend, however, that I took it very irregularly, and that I varied from about fifty or sixty grains to 150 a day.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey - They were 10,350,000 pounds in 1874; and since then, have not varied much from 9,000,000 or 10,000,000 pounds a year.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - The extreme diameter of the theatres varied greatly; thus at Aizanoi it is 187 feet, and at Syracuse 495 feet.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - My fortunes have been, from the beginning, an exemplification of the power that mutability may possess over the varied tenor of man's life.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Though her manner varied, however, her determination never did.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - What?—after the varied relations I have had the happiness to sustain towards you, can it be that you know me so little as to ask such a thing?
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - If then it varied, natural selection would probably favour different varieties in the different islands.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - The temperature at this elevation, between 1 and 3 p.m., varied from 38° to 59°; the mean being 46·5°, with the dew-point 34·6°.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass - This was varied from 1 second to 30 seconds, or even to 60 seconds or 120 seconds in some experiments.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - O the conceits which we varied upon red in all its prismatic differences!
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb - His work, as varied as Nature herself, always paints her in her most attractive colours.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny - The vast and undulating surface of the brown and purple moor, varied occasionally by some fantastic rocks, gleamed in the shifting light.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - In his copying, he found a varied and agreeable employment.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - At first the new literature was remarkably varied, but of small intrinsic worth; and very little of it is now read.
— from English Literature by William J. Long - The struggle among them for supremacy presented itself, therefore, in varied aspects; but the general outcome was essentially the same.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
