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While we have been digressing, the turtles have been dumped into the great moat that surrounds the fort, and, stretched upon the deck, the sable crew are fast asleep.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

But I have been digressing, and must again return to Kasengé.

From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning

But to return to the subject from which I have been digressing.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

Patience till my work is completed, and then you will see that, however much I may seem to have been digressing, I have always kept strictly to the point.

From Daniel Defoe by Minto, William