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adapt as in:  adapted to the new rules

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  • This passage is adapted from Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man ©1952.
    adapted = changed (to fit this situation)
  • The farm is adapting crop selection in response to global warming.
    adapting = changing (for a different situation)
  • How will people adapt as computers and robots do more of the work people used to do?
    adapt = change (for the different situation)
  • That was the year she adapted the first Harry Potter book into a screenplay for the movie.
    adapted = changed (to fit a different situation)
  • I like the U.S., but am still adapting to my adopted country.
    adapting = adjusting (changing for a new situation)
  • The car adapts to different road conditions.
    adapts = adjusts (changes to fit different situations)
  • The truck pulls up beside an odd bus that has been adapted into a bunker of sorts, with steel plates nailed across the window frames.   (source)
    adapted = changed
  • "Take the housefly. If it hadn't developed all those split-second reflexes it would have become extinct long ago."
    "You mean it adapted itself to the fly swatter?" queried Phineas.   (source)
    adapted = changed (to fit a different situation)
  • Had we gone into the trenches without this period of training most of us would certainly have gone mad. Only thus were we prepared for what awaited us. We did not break down, but adapted ourselves;   (source)
    adapted = changed to fit a different situation
  • She ran around all morning making sure we had international plug adapters and quadruple-checking that we had the right number of oxygen tanks to get there and that they were all full, etc.   (source)
    adapters = things made to change something to fit a situation
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  • "We'll adapt," Mom said.   (source)
    adapt = change to fit a different situation
  • It can be argued that youthful derring-do is in fact evolutionarily adaptive, a behavior encoded in our genes.   (source)
    adaptive = a change that is advantageous for survival
  • He dealt with every manner of adversity with calm, adaptive acceptance.   (source)
    adaptive = flexible (adjusting as needed)
  • And you've adapted his technique here?   (source)
    adapted = changed procedures to use
  • Spears and creases of white shot between the trees, but Edgar would not turn his dark-adapted eyes back to look.   (source)
    adapted = adjusted
  • So, yes, even in their best times, Mamaw and Papaw struggled to adapt.   (source)
    adapt = change to fit a different situation
  • Don't you think it's actually harder for you …. to adapt, I mean?   (source)
  • About three hundred years ago, some Rusty figured a way to engineer the species to adapt to wider conditions.   (source)
    adapt = change to fit
  • They hadn't counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form.   (source)
    adapt = change to fit a different situation
  • As usual, I adapted quickly, and joined in the hunt whenever a child left.   (source)
    adapted = changed to fit into the situation
  • --but so well had she adapted to the customs and beliefs of the time, so well had she adopted the inclinations of other girls her age, that she'd befriended those who used to tease her mercilessly.   (source)
    adapted = changed to fit
  • Now came the crucial test: date palms, cotton, melons, coffee, medicinals — more than 200 selected food plant types to test and adapt.   (source)
    adapt = change to fit
  • In the nurseries, the Elementary Class Consciousness lesson was over, the voices were adapting future demand to future industrial supply. "I do love flying," they whispered, "I do love flying, I do love having new clothes, I do love…"   (source)
    adapting = adjusting (to fit a situation)
  • It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death.   (source)
    adaptability = the degree to which something can change to fit a different situation
  • One of the saddles has a moveable horn, and can be easily adapted for Mina, if required.   (source)
    adapted = adjusted (made suitable)
  • The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.   (source)
    adapt = change to fit
  • It comprised a variety of instruments, perhaps imperfectly adapted to one another, and played with no great skill;   (source)
    adapted = made suitable
  • This, however, was nothing to a sculptor like Vampa; he examined the broken stock, calculated what change it would require to adapt the gun to his shoulder, and made a fresh stock, so beautifully carved that it would have fetched fifteen or twenty piastres, had he chosen to sell it.   (source)
    adapt = adjust to fit
  • After reexamining the negatives, Wang discovered another strange thing about the numbers: They seemed to adapt to the background.†   (source)
  • New Yorkers were fast adapting, and we saw all kinds of improvised snow gear on our cross-town trek, even people on bicycles going down Sixth Avenue.†   (source)
  • And that is why nature designed the forces of evolution to play out over generations rather than eons—to ensure that moths and men have a chance to adapt.†   (source)
  • Paul's admiration of him had grown beyond measure when he had once observed him adapting a bicycle so that he could use it with his injured leg.†   (source)
  • Everything in an enclosure must be just right—in other words, within the limits of the animal's capacity to adapt.†   (source)
  • Men adapt to captivity, some better than others.†   (source)
  • Showing up at the Glade with his memories wiped, adapting to life there, being trapped in the Maze, fighting Grievers, watching Chuck die—none of it matched what he felt now She was there.†   (source)
  • He could not adapt to this, and his anger at the world overwhelmed him.†   (source)
  • A small refrigerator is plugged into an adapter that has six different electrical devices all feeding into one outlet.†   (source)
  • John Eberhard's mother was presented with a handicapped-accessible van, courtesy of Sterling Ford, to help her son adapt to life as a paraplegic.†   (source)
  • My grandmother may have named me Jyoti, Light, but in surviving I was already Jane, a fighter and adapter.†   (source)
  • The treachery of Lady Kaltain was disturbing, but had he known of Perrington's plan to reveal her character—even to prove how easily she'd adapt to their plans, and how strong her determination ran—he would have prevented it.†   (source)
  • From his tool belt he summoned some wires, a radio adapter, and a smaller screwdriver and started to build a universal remote.†   (source)
  • It was the time of adapting to unthinking obedience, of learning to carry bedpans in a stack, and remembering a fundamental rule: never walk up a ward without bringing something back.†   (source)
  • Corn spread because it could adapt to the needs of human beings.†   (source)
  • Human beings are great adapters, and by lunchtime life in the environs of Arthur's house had settled into a steady routine.†   (source)
  • I can't tell you how many kids we have here who never adapt at all, no matter how long we work with them.†   (source)
  • With the torches extinguished, I did not expect my eyes to adapt to the near-total darkness.†   (source)
  • His gentle ways, intelligence and adaptability make him an ideal dog:' An ideal dog!†   (source)
  • Nathaniel will have enough of a challenge adapting to new routines and people, and a lot of that will be scary for him.†   (source)
  • The change was happening so fast that her flesh had no time to adapt and she was caught between phases: young eyes in an old face, a girl's head on a woman's body, a woman's body with a child's arms.†   (source)
  • They must be capable of making decisions themselves, which includes decisions to adapt in a fluid environment.†   (source)
  • It just takes adaptability.†   (source)
  • On older weapons, we would adapt a piece of hard-packed foam and raise the stock to the right height.†   (source)
  • The water adapts itself to the pitcher's form.†   (source)
  • All by himself, Lawrence Taylor altered the environment and forced opposing coaches and players to adapt.†   (source)
  • How difficult would it be for these men who had risked their lives to adapt to something that men like Ryan so rarely appreciated?†   (source)
  • "I told you," I said to Rina, "my mother's going through some kind of weird adapting phase."†   (source)
  • AS FOR CLARKSTON, the town has continued to change and, haltingly, to adapt.†   (source)
  • As a result human biology has evolved as an adaptive mechanism to conditions that have largely ceased to exist.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino, resigned to paying homage to his lineage, turned a deaf ear to her pleas, confident that the wisdom of God and his wife's infinite capacity to adapt would resolve the situation.†   (source)
  • We may say that with a good intensive working relationship in therapy and a successful relationship to the hospital the patient may be able to achieve a more satisfactory means of adapting.†   (source)
  • But despite development discussions, offers of in-house training, and other forms of enticement, it was evident that Salander had no intention of adapting to Milton's office routines.†   (source)
  • Instead of mastering their environment, the elves had chosen to accept the world as it was and adapt themselves to it.†   (source)
  • The system tracks how soon we notice the changes and how quickly we adapt our sorts.†   (source)
  • I blinked several times in succession, helping my eyes hurry and adapt to the scant light.†   (source)
  • It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is of another dimension altogether.†   (source)
  • But I have a feeling it's not much protection against the intelligence and adaptability of the modern virus.†   (source)
  • I wear a black shirt and blue jeans and try to convince myself that it feels normal, that I feel normal, that I am adapting.†   (source)
  • She could seamlessly adapt, insinuate herself into any group, any culture or situation.†   (source)
  • She lets her body adapt to being under the covers, after which she lays a thin arm across the body of her sister, who is sleeping face-up.†   (source)
  • Among other innovations, Gap Inc. changed how children's clothing is marketed, adapting its adult fashions to fit toddlers and even infants.†   (source)
  • One morning Adam donned a fireman's hat and proceeded to exhibit what Chief Harley says was his "ability to flip a switch and adapt to any situation."†   (source)
  • He waited for a minute to give his eyes time to adapt to the dark, and the little sparkles of light in his eyes as they adjusted to the darkness eventually faded away, while cool, dry air roared around his face and whiffled the hair on his forehead.†   (source)
  • My job is to help this soul adapt herself to her new host without unnecessary pain or trauma.†   (source)
  • Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.—GEORGE BERNARD SHAW†   (source)
  • You adapt to your environment, I adapt to mine.†   (source)
  • I'm adapting a piece I choreographed years ago, which had gotten considerable attention at the time, I don't mind saying.†   (source)
  • Maybe he could adapt one of the speeches, or just listen to the advice in general— Luke!†   (source)
  • The first three months, while I was adapting myself to the fact of pregnancy (I didn't really link pregnancy to the possibility of my having a baby until weeks before my confinement), were a hazy period in which days seemed to lie just below the water level, never emerging fully.†   (source)
  • He smiled, and then, adapting his favorite line from the movie Caddyshack, he said, "So we got dat goin' for us."†   (source)
  • Not to mention all the different adapters I had to bring for my hair dryer and curling iron, since Andrew was remarkably unhelpful in describing what British electrical outlets look like ("They look likeoutlets, " he kept saying on the phone.†   (source)
  • "You will have to struggle, adjust, and adapt," M. Renard said, shrugging.†   (source)
  • The Hakims were sophisticated enough to adapt, but Baba Hajji and Ameh Bozorg, although they were trying hard to be on their best behavior, had difficulty.†   (source)
  • I wondered what he would do if he was locked up—would he give up coffee entirely, or adapt to Nescafe?†   (source)
  • It's time to adapt or die.†   (source)
  • He had talents ofirony, allegory, and fable that he could adapt with great skill to the promotion of moral and political truth.†   (source)
  • She seemed more robust and less timid than Boxwood and Haystack and was evidently doing her best to adapt herself to warren life.†   (source)
  • Jack had taken a few moments to examine Nemo's weaponry aboard the Nautilus, and he'd found among the various hydraulic and steam-powered weaponry a few devices of a more conventional nature, which he could adapt to better use.†   (source)
  • They've made terrific progress in adapting themselves to white ways, but they're far from it yet.†   (source)
  • Amoskeag never saw it coming and was too unwieldy to adapt.†   (source)
  • He adapts himself very well to things.†   (source)
  • To communicate all of this, American language adapts.†   (source)
  • The light grew stronger, hurting their eyes a little, but growing slowly enough to allow them to adapt.†   (source)
  • You must adapt.†   (source)
  • A child adapts rapidly, or not at all—and I had taken to the Great Place as though I had been raised there.†   (source)
  • You know when you first jump into the ocean you get a jolt of cold, but then your body quickly adapts and you get used to it?†   (source)
  • Just as a man who limps adapts to his handicap and soon can't remember what it was like to walk straight, Cesar no longer remembered why he came or why he couldn't leave.†   (source)
  • As Prof says, a society adapts to fact, or doesn't survive.†   (source)
  • It became clear to Lourdes shortly after she and Rufino moved to New York that he would never adapt.†   (source)
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adapted as in:  the species is well adapted for

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  • The human spine is not as well adapted to walking upright as we would like.
  • They've been brought back after sixty-five million years to a world that's very different from the one they left, the one they were adapted to.   (source)
    adapted = well-suited
  • A large family (Fringillidae) of small song-birds, including the bunting, sparrow, and goldfinch, having a small conical beak adapted to cracking seeds.   (source)
  • Right from the start, it was clear that no one had ever been better adapted to a sport than Finny was to blitzball.   (source)
  • This latitude's life-zone has mostly what we call minor water stealers—adapted to raiding each other for moisture, gobbling up the trace-dew.   (source)
  • He went to the bathroom and carefully scrubbed the ink away with the gritty dark-brown soap which rasped your skin like sandpaper and was therefore well adapted for this purpose.   (source)
    well adapted = well suited
  • The Warden was a blond and brachycephalic Alpha-Minus, short, red, moon-faced, and broad-shouldered, with a loud booming voice, very well adapted to the utterance of hypnopaedic wisdom.   (source)
  • It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is more adapted for summer than for winter.   (source)
    adapted = suitable
  • It had the graveyard, originally Isaac Johnson's home-field, on one side, and so was well adapted to call up serious reflections, suited to their respective employments, in both minister and man of physic.   (source)
    well adapted = well suited
  • It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian purposes; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time.   (source)
    adapted = suitable
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  • He knew that it was barren and without shelter; but when the sea became more calm, he resolved to plunge into its waves again, and swim to Lemaire, equally arid, but larger, and consequently better adapted for concealment.   (source)
    adapted = suited
  • Mrs. Rushworth acknowledged herself very desirous that her son should marry, and declared that of all the young ladies she had ever seen, Miss Bertram seemed, by her amiable qualities and accomplishments, the best adapted to make him happy.   (source)
    adapted = well-suited
  • Democracy appears to me to be much better adapted for the peaceful conduct of society, or for an occasional effort of remarkable vigor, than for the hardy and prolonged endurance of the storms which beset the political existence of nations.   (source)
    adapted = suited
  • He discovered he was already well adapted to an army regime, to the terrors of kit inspection and the folding of blankets into precise squares, with the labels lined up.†   (source)
  • So well adapted was the border culture to this environment that other ethnic groups tended to copy it.†   (source)
  • My mind seemed well adapted to inferring the true meanings from tones and inflections.†   (source)
  • They are beautiful, friendly creatures, so well adapted to their environment that they don't have to mess it up in order to lead the life they seem to enjoy.†   (source)
  • Suppose those two points we take are the wolf and the domestic dog. That does imply something else farther along the same line—the "next dog," as you like to phrase it. But this is where your thinking goes awry, for along any such biological line, the farther points are not more advanced than the earlier points, they are only better adapted.   (source)
    adapted = suited (to the current environment)
  • It isn't adapted to our world.   (source)
    adapted = well-suited
  • After a little thought, the pigs sent for buckets and milked the cows fairly successfully, their trotters being well adapted to this task.   (source)
    well adapted = well suited
  • ...he brought within the magic circle of his genius, traditions peculiarly adapted for his purpose,   (source)
    adapted = well-suited
  • ...you drag within the magic circle of your dulness, subjects not at all adapted to the purposes of the stage,   (source)
  • In the remoter parts of the room, however, its walls being so ill adapted to reflect light, there was nearly the same obscurity as before.   (source)
    adapted = suitable
  • When arrived at the Madeleine,—"Since we are out," said Beauchamp, "let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one's spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters."   (source)
    adapted = well-suited
  • It was of gold, prettily worked; and though Fanny would have preferred a longer and a plainer chain as more adapted for her purpose, she hoped, in fixing on this, to be chusing what Miss Crawford least wished to keep.   (source)
    adapted = suitable
  • So much strength of colouring, which must have given a wan and pallid aspect to cheeks of a fainter bloom, was admirably adapted to Pearl's beauty, and made her the very brightest little jet of flame that ever danced upon the earth.   (source)
    adapted = well-suited
  • Half a dozen chairs stood about the room, straight and stiff, and so ingeniously contrived for the discomfort of the human person that they were irksome even to sight, and conveyed the ugliest possible idea of the state of society to which they could have been adapted.   (source)
    adapted = suitable
  • In her bewilderment, she offered him first a wooden dragoon, and next a handful of marbles; neither of which being adapted to his else omnivorous appetite, she hastily held out her whole remaining stock of natural history in gingerbread, and huddled the small customer out of the shop.   (source)
    adapted = well-suited
  • This, though the thought of the moment, did not end with the moment; for the inclination to act was awakened, and in no one more strongly than in him who was now master of the house; and who, having so much leisure as to make almost any novelty a certain good, had likewise such a degree of lively talents and comic taste, as were exactly adapted to the novelty of acting.   (source)
  • So little adapted is the atmosphere of a Custom-house to the delicate harvest of fancy and sensibility, that, had I remained there through ten Presidencies yet to come, I doubt whether the tale of "The Scarlet Letter" would ever have been brought before the public eye.   (source)
    adapted = suitable
  • The unlikeliest materials—a stick, a bunch of rags, a flower—were the puppets of Pearl's witchcraft, and, without undergoing any outward change, became spiritually adapted to whatever drama occupied the stage of her inner world.   (source)
    adapted = well-suited
  • Susan became the stationary niece, delighted to be so; and equally well adapted for it by a readiness of mind, and an inclination for usefulness, as Fanny had been by sweetness of temper, and strong feelings of gratitude.   (source)
    well adapted = well suited
  • And Uncle Venner, who had studied the world at street-corners, and other posts equally well adapted for just observation, was as ready to give out his wisdom as a town-pump to give water.   (source)
  • You will supply the rest; and a most fortunate man he is to attach himself to such a creature—to a woman who, firm as a rock in her own principles, has a gentleness of character so well adapted to recommend them.   (source)
  • Not to speak of the clergyman's health, so inadequate to sustain the hardships of a forest life, his native gifts, his culture, and his entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state the more delicately adapted to it the man.   (source)
    adapted = well-suited
  • It is a likeness of a young man, in a silken dressing-gown of an old fashion, the soft richness of which is well adapted to the countenance of reverie, with its full, tender lips, and beautiful eyes, that seem to indicate not so much capacity of thought, as gentle and voluptuous emotion.   (source)
    well adapted = well suited
  • Watching them sport about, it has often seemed to me that as well adapted as they are to their environment, there was never a need for dolphins to evolve complex social institutions, so that whatever it was they did possess along those lines was much closer to the earlier situations considered by Huizinga, a life condition filled with an overt indulgence in their version of festal performances and contests.†   (source)
  • Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.†   (source)
  • A very sweet existence, taking it all in all, he said, and well adapted to revery.†   (source)
  • For a purpose such as this the cellar was well adapted.†   (source)
  • Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upper-world people were to theirs.†   (source)
  • They all speak Latin in purity, while each one appears in the in-door dress of the great capital on the Tiber; that is, in tunics short of sleeve and skirt, a style of vesture well adapted to the climate of Antioch, and especially comfortable in the too close atmosphere of the saloon.†   (source)
  • Some women, I grant, would not appear to advantage seated on a pillion, and attired in a drab joseph and a drab beaver-bonnet, with a crown resembling a small stew-pan; for a garment suggesting a coachman's greatcoat, cut out under an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes, is not well adapted to conceal deficiencies of contour, nor is drab a colour that will throw sallow cheeks into lively contrast.†   (source)
  • It consisted of very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate.†   (source)
  • To that mission its stern, inflexible, energetic elements, were well adapted; but, as a Christian, I look for another era to arise.†   (source)
  • The owner of the birds was a free black, who had prepared for the occasion a collection of game that was admirably qualified to inflame the appetite of an epicure, and was well adapted to the means and skill of the different competitors, who were of all ages.†   (source)
  • The night was well adapted to heighten the feelings, which had been created by the events of the day.†   (source)
  • Matters of little moment are rarely consigned to parchment; since, for the mere ordinary purposes of drawing or writing, it is not nearly so well adapted as paper.†   (source)
  • He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that the American legislation, taken collectively, is extremely well adapted to the genius of the people and the nature of the country which it is intended to govern.†   (source)
  • This would not seem a spot very well adapted to the transaction of business; but Mr Ralph Nickleby had lived there, notwithstanding, for many years, and uttered no complaint on that score.†   (source)
  • And it is evident from the manner in which ye have managed your testimony, that politics, (as a religious body of men) is not your proper Walk; for however well adapted it might appear to you, it is, nevertheless, a jumble of good and bad put unwisely together, and the conclusion drawn therefrom, both unnatural and unjust.†   (source)
  • The discourse seem'd well adapted to their capacities, and was deliver'd in a pleasing, familiar manner, coaxing them, as it were, to be good.†   (source)
  • By the foregoing quotation I have shewn that the language of Prose may yet be well adapted to Poetry; and I have previously asserted that a large portion of the language of every good poem can in no respect differ from that of good Prose.†   (source)
  • Several of my Friends are anxious for the success of these Poems from a belief, that, if the views with which they were composed were indeed realized, a class of Poetry would be produced, well adapted to interest mankind permanently, and not unimportant in the multiplicity, and in the quality of its moral relations: and on this account they have advised me to prefix a systematic defence of the theory, upon which the poems were written.†   (source)
  • This part of my subject I have not altogether neglected; but it bas been less my present aim to prove, that the interest excited by some other kinds of poetry is less vivid, and less worthy of the nobler powers of the mind, than to offer reasons for presuming, that, if the object which I have proposed to myself were adequately attained, a species of poetry would be produced, which is genuine poetry; in its nature well adapted to interest mankind permanently, and likewise important in the multiplicity and quality of its moral relations.†   (source)
  • By-and-by, after they had between them carefully thought over what they should do to carry out their object, the curate hit upon an idea very well adapted to humour Don Quixote, and effect their purpose; and his notion, which he explained to the barber, was that he himself should assume the disguise of a wandering damsel, while the other should try as best he could to pass for a squire, and that they should thus proceed to where Don Quixote was, and he, pretending to be an aggrieved and distresse†   (source)
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  • Your pragmatic way of thinking, adapted to the experimental, scientific approach, is lacking in most scholars.†   (source)
  • I practised religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances—solitary Masses without priests or consecrated Communion hosts, darshans without murtis, and pujas with turtle meat for prasad, acts of devotion to Allah not knowing where Mecca was and getting my Arabic wrong.†   (source)
  • I picked him up in the adapted car, and brought him home.†   (source)
  • We find adapted computers, talking boards that speak the words, push-button systems, and even devices that work with blinks or head nods.†   (source)
  • Wormtail's body, of course, was ill adapted for possession, as all assumed him dead, and would attract far too much attention if noticed.†   (source)
  • It was important that his character be adapted to this, otherwise his chances of success were dubious.†   (source)
  • He chose a boilerplate answer, adapted it a bit, told the customer to have a fantastic day.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she'll trust you enough to become adapted to humans.†   (source)
  • Unforeseen obstacles had presented themselves, but the camerlegno had adapted, making bold adjustments.†   (source)
  • But he's adapted to his environment so well—the way he leaps from tree to tree.†   (source)
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  • I adapted quickly, learning how to survive from a bad situation.†   (source)
  • They strolled around the lake, bought tea at a stall, and rented deck chairs to listen to elderly men of the Salvation Army playing Elgar adapted for brass band.†   (source)
  • Adapted from Encyclopaedia Britannica Yet there is one winner in all of this — corn itself.†   (source)
  • The trick was to get the hyoid apparatus modified and the voluntary nerve pathways connected and the neocortex control systems adapted without hampering the speech abilities.†   (source)
  • On top of all that, the regular things we were supposed to have learned—speaking clearly, proper table manners, and the like—had to be adapted to a culture of which neither Kriss nor I had any knowledge besides what was printed in our packets.†   (source)
  • It would seem that the Egyptians had simply adapted an existing scripture to suit their needs.†   (source)
  • I don't know maybe it was because he'd grown up on a ranch, but he adapted to this a lot more easily than most kids.†   (source)
  • When lumberjacks working upstream threatened to spoil our fun by sending their freshly cut trees downstream to the mill, we adapted quickly, opting to lie on our backs, each on a separate log, gazing at the sunlight breaking through the canopy of oak, spruce, and pines.†   (source)
  • They were showing movies adapted from Graham Greene: Ministry of Fear, The Human Factor; The Fallen Idol, This Gun for Hire.†   (source)
  • Over time, she has adapted to his absence.†   (source)
  • At any rate, I've completely adapted to this modern world.†   (source)
  • We sure seem to have adapted pretty well to it.†   (source)
  • At qst the shifts in gravity from room to room were disturbing, out I soon adapted, subconsciously bracing myself for the drag of Lusus and Hebron and Sol Draconi Septera, unconsciously anticipating the less than l-stanclra-g freedom of the majority of the rooms.†   (source)
  • After great deliberation, just as people were beginning to fidget, she had played a short piece by Mozart, adapted for children, but the guests wanted her to play "Jingle Bells."†   (source)
  • I also left room for the possibility that they had adapted to this dynamic out of necessity, the quiet daughter eclipsed by the attention-diverting self-absorbed mother routine, that Madaline's narcissism was perhaps an act of kindness, of maternal protectiveness.†   (source)
  • These examples represent only the tip of the iceberg for the perennially abused Shrew: its plot seems to be permanently available to be moved in time and space, adapted, altered, updated, set to music, reimagined in myriad ways.†   (source)
  • Her Living Curl had long since been pronounced dead, and on the whole she appeared to be adapted to within an inch of her life.†   (source)
  • It is adapted so that the bird can fly.†   (source)
  • Those are very small, very fast scout-and-attack helicopters adapted for Special Operations work.†   (source)
  • And had the finches adapted to their surroundings on the different islands over the ages in such a way that new species of finches evolved?†   (source)
  • He'd taken the old dinosaur program from the files of the Taylor Lab, adapted it to the common Defense Department computer language, ADA—named for Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron—and then tightened it up.†   (source)
  • There were sounds, of course, but even after several years in Castle Rock, the most she could say about her ears was that they had slowly adapted from 'city ears' to 'town ears'.†   (source)
  • The wording of the law states, however, that the conditions of a guardianship "shall be adapted to each individual case."†   (source)
  • Many creatures have adapted to this place.†   (source)
  • Happens a lot when the elderly live alone and in the old family home that hasn't been adapted to their needs.†   (source)
  • Additionally, because most Sherpas had lived for generations in villages situated between 9,000 and 14,000 feet, they were physiologically adapted to the rigors of high altitude.†   (source)
  • But you see here how Ebola has adapted to this lung.†   (source)
  • The transition would hardly be a pleasant one for the dragon, but many Riders and dragons successfully adapted to the change and continued to serve the Riders with distinction.†   (source)
  • The version most familiar to American audiences was written in eighteenth-century France by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (though sometimes credited to Charles Perrault of Cinderella fame), adapted from an earlier novel by Gabrielle Susan Barbot de Gallan de Villeneuve.†   (source)
  • When asked what he thought those had been, Farmer adapted a mordant line from Graham Greene's The Comedians.†   (source)
  • Max marveled at how David had adapted to the use of his left hand, which was now as dexterous as the one he had lost.†   (source)
  • Maybe angels are adapted to cold temperatures, just as they're light for flight.†   (source)
  • We cannot, without committing a dangerous imprudence, abandon those measures of self-protection which are adapted to our situation, and to which, notwithstanding our pacific policy, the violence of injustice of others may again compel us to resort.†   (source)
  • Sure, I was disappointed and a little sad, but from what I remembered, I'd adapted pretty quickly to the new arrangements.†   (source)
  • Anys Gowdie's "confession" is adapted from the account of a Scottish witch trial included in Richard Zacks's lively collection of documenis on sexuality, History Laid Bare.†   (source)
  • For the risky mission he'd armed himself with a stinger gun, a light machine gun he'd taken from an airplane and adapted into a rapid-fire gun.†   (source)
  • Raison Pharmaceutical, the creator of the vaccine from which the virus was adapted, is providing us with every-thing they have.†   (source)
  • Twaha remembers being surprised by how easily Mortenson adapted to cold weather in Korphe.†   (source)
  • The knight had not adapted well to bondage.†   (source)
  • They will pay money to see you do things that are natural to your culture and to see how well you have adapted to ours.†   (source)
  • "The best adapted bacteria," Burton used to say, "are the ones that cause minor diseases, or none at all.†   (source)
  • I soon adapted myself to the life at Clarkebury.†   (source)
  • During that trial you adapted to the necessities of your immediate surroundings-you might say like a chameleon.†   (source)
  • But Smith adapted.†   (source)
  • Loonies adapted to harsh facts—or failed and died.†   (source)
  • I guess you could say she adapted to her grief with imagination.†   (source)
  • So, like SEALs do best, we adapted.†   (source)
  • The guards marveled at the way the new man had adapted.†   (source)
  • Maria Garcia liked to say that her heart was still in Cuernavaca, and she never adapted her cooking.†   (source)
  • His practiced, nimble fingers adapted easily to the instruments of the scrimshander, and he had even been elected as the council spokesman of one of the villages.†   (source)
  • This essay was adapted from a Christmas card Kelly sent to family and friends in 2007.†   (source)
  • As writers often do, I adapted what seemed compelling to me from the myth—angels having children, when that is such a human thing to do!†   (source)
  • But the day before, on the way home from class, these shoes had snagged her — so vital, there in the store window, that they did not look like shoes so much as some highly adapted life form, mimicking shoes the way lizards mimicked desert rocks.†   (source)
  • The most frightening part was the realization that they had adapted, had gotten used to it all, had come to think of the smelly hallways as their homes and the people who stole from them, their families.†   (source)
  • He was the kind of person who adapted and moved on, evidently.†   (source)
  • Tradd has adapted to the ways of the Corps.†   (source)
  • When he spoke in Yazoo County, the stronghold of his opposition, the Yazoo City Herald reported that like "the lion at bay," he "conquered the prejudices of hundreds who had been led to believe that his views on certain points were better adapted to the latitude of New England than to that of Mississippi."†   (source)
  • Usually both instincts fuse in the adapted individual.†   (source)
  • With the habit of long years, he easily adapted himself to the thought of "next year," and began planning accordingly.†   (source)
  • So we adapted his symbol—a skull—and made it our own, with some modifications.†   (source)
  • CIELAGO: any modified Chiroptera of Arrakis adapted to carry distrans messages.†   (source)
  • Thirteen is too young to be all grown up, but Mack had little choice and adapted quickly.†   (source)
  • The plant quickly adapted to the new humans and their needs.†   (source)
  • If it was Dad, I told Will, he would have had an adapted beer cup before he had a wheelchair.†   (source)
  • Completely adapted to the diet and the life here.†   (source)
  • Source: Adapted from Twinkie, Deconstructed, by Steve Ettlinger and www.†   (source)
  • There were a few practical suggestions: wine tasting, music, art, specially adapted keyboards.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, I usually wore a ball cap: a platoon cap with a Cadillac symbol adapted as our unit logo.†   (source)
  • Go on a beach, unless your chair had been adapted with "fat wheels."†   (source)
  • She found it amazing, and a little scary, how quickly Hylla had adapted to her new identity.†   (source)
  • They'd adapted to the desert well with Martyn's help.†   (source)
  • On some of them there were dark boxcars, passenger coaches, a stage that had been adapted to rails.†   (source)
  • A man easily killed by bacteria was poorly adapted; he didn't live long enough to reproduce.†   (source)
  • In fact, it was a famous work song with their own adapted lyrics: "Benifunani eRivonia?†   (source)
  • But it was not really adapted to men, because it killed and died within the organism.†   (source)
  • A bacteria that killed its host was also poorly adapted.†   (source)
  • He loved games and this was why he adapted so well to the Play and Talk game.†   (source)
  • I was surprised by how quickly we adapted to the tactics of surveillance.†   (source)
  • A lover of flowers and solitude, she seemed perfectly adapted to the Spartan existence on Yamacraw.†   (source)
  • I sometimes inhabited animals — snakes, of course, being my preference — but I was little better off inside them than as pure spirit, for their bodies were ill adapted to perform magic ....and my possession of them shortened their lives; none of them lasted long..."Then ....four years ago ....the means for my return seemed assured.†   (source)
  • The whole thing seemed designed to humiliate and brainwash us into following orders without question, no matter how stupid they might be, but I adapted more quickly than a lot of the guys.†   (source)
  • But even animals that were bred in zoos and have never known the wild, that are perfectly adapted to their enclosures and feel no tension in the presence of humans, will have moments of excitement that push them to seek to escape.†   (source)
  • The more bitter the struggle for survival, the quicker will be the evolution of new species, so that only the very best adapted will survive and the others will die out.†   (source)
  • It was the end of the lesson; they had finished their work; the guinea fowl they had been changing into guinea pigs had been shut away in a large cage on Professor McGonagall's desk (Neville's still had feathers); they had copied down their homework from the blackboard ("Describe, with examples, the ways in which Transforming Spells must be adapted when performing Cross-Species Switches"}.†   (source)
  • The result of this continual selection is that the ones best adapted to a particular environment—or a particular ecological niche—will in the long term perpetuate the race in that environment.†   (source)
  • Of all the species that have adapted to thrive in a world dominated by humans, surely no other has done better than Zea mays.†   (source)
  • It was due to natural selection in the struggle for life, in which those that were best adapted to their surroundings would survive and perpetuate the race.†   (source)
  • MUAD'DIB: the adapted kangaroo mouse of Arrakis, a creature associated in the Fremen earth-spirit mythology with a design visible on the planet's second moon.†   (source)
  • We must use man as a constructive ecological force—inserting adapted terraform life: a plant here, an animal there, a man in that place—to transform the water cycle, to build a new kind of landscape.†   (source)
  • Corn became king of the farm and the supermarket because it adapted itself easily to the needs of farmers and food makers.†   (source)
  • The ground finches with steeply profiled beaks lived on pine cone seeds, the little warbler finches lived on insects, and the tree finches lived on termites extracted from bark and branches ...Each and every one of the species had a beak that was perfectly adapted to its own food intake.†   (source)
  • It was only when we brought Will back home, once the annex was adapted and ready, that I could see a point in making it beautiful again.†   (source)
  • Now, they came in with deeper plantings — ephemerals (chenopods, pigweeds, and amaranth to begin), then scotch broom, low lupine, vine eucalyptus (the type adapted for Caladan's northern reaches), dwarf tamarisk, shore pine — then the true desert growths: candelilla, saguaro, and bis-naga, the barrel cactus.†   (source)
  • There were floating chairs that would enable him to go fishing, and adapted quad bikes that would allow him to off-road.†   (source)
  • The thought of loading Will and his chair into the adapted minivan and carting him safely to and from the next town filled me with utter terror.†   (source)
  • We emerged groggily through Arrivals, still stiff from our time in the air, and I could have wept with relief at the sight of the operator's specially adapted taxi.†   (source)
  • Her concept of musicals was rooted in those that had been adapted into films a generation ago, like The Music Man and Oklahoma!†   (source)
  • Christine still threw her tantrums and Lisa still cried at night, but they'd adapted to life in the house without their mom.†   (source)
  • We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commissars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo.†   (source)
  • Not quite two years ago, when a traveling projectionist brought it to town, I saw Le Voyage dans la Lune [A Trip to the Moon], adapted from the novel by Jules Verne-I loved this book†   (source)
  • If anybody had found out that the Army was doing experiments to see if the Ebola virus had adapted to spreading in the respiratory tract, we would have been accused of doing offensive biological warfare—trying to create a doomsday germ.†   (source)
  • Both their bodies and minds had adapted to the depths, and luckily for all who dwelt under the open sky, the evil dark elves were content to remain where they were, only occasionally resurfacing to raid and pillage.†   (source)
  • Korphe's mosque had adapted to a changing environment over the centuries, much like the people who filled it with their faith.†   (source)
  • The ex-footballer who had once craved some of Leo Ryan's "boards" for his football pants now adapted some of Mike's mannerisms: Like Mike, he wore his helmet cocked to one side.†   (source)
  • He adapted.†   (source)
  • Some months later, after one of the most unfortunate passages in a long public life, he would acknowledge succinctly to John Quincy that, in truth, the office he held was "not quite adapted to my character," that it was too inactive, too "mechanical," and that mistakenly he was inclined to think he must "throw a little light on the subject" when need be.†   (source)
  • But for long days hunched over his spotting scope, Schaller found himself simply admiring how magnificently the ibex had adapted to this harshest of all environments.†   (source)
  • The circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper, and the feelings you have discovered so justly adapted to the occasion, that I must say that I not only receive with pleasure the assurance of the friendly dispositions of the United States, but that I am very glad that the choice has fallen upon you to be their minister.†   (source)
  • Accepting the benevolent control of their gigantic employer, content with its definition of them as the "corporation's children," these rural men and women (and their children) adapted themselves to the terrain—both physical and psychological—of their new urban life.†   (source)
  • I also joined the drama society and acted in a play about Abraham Lincoln that was adapted by my classmate Lincoln Mkentane.†   (source)
  • These last are not minor diseases, but they are much less severe than they once were, because both man and organism have adapted.†   (source)
  • They were potentially deadly, but man had adapted to them over the years, and only a few could still cause disease.†   (source)
  • Each adapted to the other.†   (source)
  • Though the barracks gave the appearance that it could support no animal life at all, the small things had adapted themselves to a frantic existence between taps and reveille.†   (source)
  • We had planned to divert the attention of the cadre from Bentley to the rest of us, and it was surprising how quickly we adapted ourselves to strategies that disrupted and infuriated and sabotaged the designs and conspiracies of the cadre even if they were only temporary victories.†   (source)
  • She adapted herself to the split-second rhythm of the New Yorker going to and from work.†   (source)
  • A juke box played Wagner's "Song to the Evening Star," adapted, in swing time.†   (source)
  • This mixture was poured into a perfectly adapted physical vessel.†   (source)
  • Our fellow citizens had fallen into line, adapted themselves, as people say, to the situation, because there was no way of doing otherwise.†   (source)
  • I marked the ease with which my mind adjusted itself to assimilate the message—it might be (one has these fancies) to assume command of the British Empire; I observed my composure; I remarked with what magnificent vitality the atoms of my attention dispersed, swarmed round the interruption, assimilated the message, adapted themselves to a new state of affairs and had created, by the time I put back the receiver, a richer, stronger, a more complicated world in which I was called upon to act my part and had no doubt whatever that I could do it.†   (source)
  • KING LEIR, which Shakespeare adapted terminates more naturally and more in accordance with the moral demands of the spectator than does Shakespeare's; namely, by the King of the Gauls conquering the husbands of the elder sisters, and by Cordelia, instead of being killed, restoring Leir to his former position.†   (source)
  • It was a fresh day, of beauty nearly material enough to pick up, with corners of the yard full of the heat of flowers grown in old iron and adapted cast-off boilers.†   (source)
  • Lamb, Browne, Thackeray, Newman, Sterne, Dickens, De Quincey—whoever it may be—never helped a woman yet, though she may have learnt a few tricks of them and adapted them to her use.†   (source)
  • A broad distinction can be made between the mythologies of the truly primitive (fishing, hunting, root-digging, and berry-picking) peoples and those of the civilizations that came into being following the development of the arts of agriculture, dairying, and herding, c. 6000 B.C. Most of what we call primitive, however, is actually colonial, i. e., diffused from some high culture center and adapted to the needs of a simpler society.†   (source)
  • You will kindly take this photograph—and I do not wish any building as Cameron might have designed it, I wish the scheme of this adapted to our site—and you will follow my instructions as to the Classic treatment of the facade.†   (source)
  • The book has somehow to be adapted to the body, and at a venture one would say that women's books should be shorter, more concentrated, than those of men, and framed so that they do not need long hours of steady and uninterrupted work.†   (source)
  • In this respect they had adapted themselves to the very condition of the plague, all the more potent for its mediocrity.†   (source)
  • So the interiors of streetcars and trailers were adapted to this new purpose, and a branch line was laid down to the crematorium, which thus became a terminus.†   (source)
  • And while a good many people adapted themselves to confinement and carried on their humdrum lives as before, there were others who rebelled and whose one idea now was to break loose from the prison-house.†   (source)
  • Her thoughts were staid and solemnly adapted to a condition.†   (source)
  • Her friends not only adapted themselves admirably to the situation, but came to revel in it.†   (source)
  • Her old bed had been adapted for two younger children.†   (source)
  • He saw that nothing was good and nothing was evil; things were merely adapted to an end.†   (source)
  • In Packingtown the advertisements had a style all of their own, adapted to the peculiar population.†   (source)
  • Bill was an adapter, certainly, so he was—and very well he adapted too—considering.'†   (source)
  • To whom, in a few easy words adapted to his capacity, Mrs Merdle stated the question at issue.†   (source)
  • These were usually quite perfect pieces of workmanship, admirably adapted to the end in view.†   (source)
  • He said, Well, it was really very pleasant to see how things lazily adapted themselves to purposes.†   (source)
  • You declared they were adapted only for men of the strictest principles.†   (source)
  • Dare say he may be; never was much adapted to anything that I set him about, I'll be bound.†   (source)
  • The Revolution was more adapted for breathing with Combeferre than with Enjolras.†   (source)
  • It is natural to her to be a lady; she has adapted herself to our new fortunes with wonderful ease.†   (source)
  • But, sir, he seems peculiarly adapted to this business.†   (source)
  • I wish, Jane, I were a trifle better adapted to match with her externally.†   (source)
  • A room not large enough to skate in; nor adapted to the easy pursuit of any other occupation.†   (source)
  • Sprung from the African forests, where its counterpart can still be heard, it was adapted, changed, and intensified by the tragic soul-life of the slave, until, under the stress of law and whip, it became the one true expression of a people's sorrow, despair, and hope.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile she could honestly be proud of the skill with which she had adapted herself to somewhat delicate conditions.†   (source)
  • I have tried many machines, and I find the Hammond is the best adapted to the peculiar needs of my work.†   (source)
  • I adapted myself to the bourgeoisie.†   (source)
  • Be it parenthesized here that since the mizzentopmen having not to handle such breadths of heavy canvas as the lower sails on the main-mast and fore-mast, a young man if of the right stuff not only seems best adapted to duty there, but in fact is generally selected for the captaincy of that top, and the company under him are light hands and often but striplings.†   (source)
  • His wide sleeveless mantle with a large cape to it—the sort of cloak one sees upon travellers during the winter months in Switzerland or North Italy—was by no means adapted to the long cold journey through Russia, from Eydkuhnen to St. Petersburg.†   (source)
  • Any part of it which was not portable or could not be adapted to some fresh pleasure he would discard as valueless, however enviable it might appear to others.†   (source)
  • My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing.†   (source)
  • I have adapted this simple device to our occasion by thrusting into my perfectly modern three-act play a totally extraneous act in which my hero, enchanted by the air of the Sierra, has a dream in which his Mozartian ancestor appears and philosophizes at great length in a Shavio-Socratic dialogue with the lady, the statue, and the devil.†   (source)
  • He had resumed the mode of life adapted in his first three weeks—the familiar, regular, and perfectly ordered life at Joachim's side; everything went like clockwork from the first day, as if there had never been an interruption.†   (source)
  • He got hold toward the base where the neck comes out from the shoulders; but he did not know the chewing method of fighting, nor were his jaws adapted to it.†   (source)
  • And then several more went swiftly before she adapted herself to a situation she had reason to believe might last for weeks and even months.†   (source)
  • So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour.†   (source)
  • Adjoining was the book-bindery, adapted to the most mobile of patients who were not always, however, those who had the greatest chance for recovery.†   (source)
  • Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be.†   (source)
  • But, he told his hearers, the text had seemed to him specially adapted for the guidance of those whose lot it was to lead the life of the world and who yet wished to lead that life not in the manner of worldlings.†   (source)
  • Everything I found in books that pleased me I retained in my memory, consciously or unconsciously, and adapted it.†   (source)
  • This was not alone because of her sailing qualities, not common in a ship of her rate, but quite as much, probably, that the character of her commander, it was thought, specially adapted him for any duty where under unforeseen difficulties a prompt initiative might have to be taken in some matter demanding knowledge and ability in addition to those qualities implied in good seamanship.†   (source)
  • And then, as she belonged to that witty 'Guermantes set'—in which there survived something of the alert mentality, stripped of all commonplace phrases and conventional sentiments, which dated from Merimee, and found its final expression in the plays of Meilhac and Halevy—she adapted its formula so as to suit even her social engagements, transposed it into the courtesy which was always struggling to be positive and precise, to approximate itself to the plain truth.†   (source)
  • Lynn and Sedley received fashion papers from Paris once a week and adapted the costumes illustrated in them to the needs of their customers.†   (source)
  • She adapted herself.†   (source)
  • Little Hans Castorp had often studied it, not with any artistic acumen of course, but with a certain more general, even penetrating understanding; and although he had only once seen his grandfather in real life in the fashion pictured there on canvas—just for a brief moment as part of a dignified procession into the town hall—he could not help, as we have said, regarding this pictorial presence as his authentic and real grandfather, seeing in the everyday one a temporary, imperfectly adapted improvisation, so to speak.†   (source)
  • Dorset was as difficult to amuse as a savage; but even his self-engrossment was not proof against Lily's arts, or rather these were especially adapted to soothe an uneasy egoism.†   (source)
  • The descent was effected by means of metallic bars projecting from the sides of the well, and these being adapted to the needs of a creature much smaller and lighter than myself, I was speedily cramped and fatigued by the descent.†   (source)
  • and no one perhaps could have understood my feelings at that moment so well as himself; to him, that anguish which lies in knowing that the creature one adores is in some place of enjoyment where oneself is not and cannot follow—to him that anguish came through Love, to which it is in a sense predestined, by which it must be equipped and adapted; but when, as had befallen me, such an anguish possesses one's soul before Love has yet entered into one's life, then it must drift, awaiting Love's coming, vague and free, without precise attachment, at the disposal of one sentiment to-day, of another to-morrow, of filial piety or affection for a comrade.†   (source)
  • outside—understood that this self was a living entity of a higher order, far removed from those simple organisms that breathed, fed, even thought, with just the surface of their bodies, that it was constructed, rather, out of a myriad of small organized units, which all shared a common origin, but had multiplied by constantly dividing, had adapted and combined for various functions, and had then separated to develop on their own and germinated new forms that were both the prerequisite and the effect of its growth.†   (source)
  • He remembered some of the costumes he had seen in Paris, and he adapted one of them, getting his effect from a combination of violent, unusual colours.†   (source)
  • Dr. Percepied, whose loud voice and bushy eyebrows enabled him to play to his heart's content the part of 'double-dealer,' a part to which he was not, otherwise, adapted, without in the least degree compromising his unassailable and quite unmerited reputation of being a kind-hearted old curmudgeon, could make the Cure and everyone else laugh until they cried by saying in a harsh voice: "What d'ye say to this, now?†   (source)
  • These, and many more arguments, some adapted to the peculiar circumstances of those whom he addressed, had the expected weight with the nobles of Prince John's faction.†   (source)
  • This was uttered as they were proceeding, at a pace that was adapted to the weakness of Louisa, toward the highway; on reaching which the ladies separated from their guide, declaring themselves equal to the remainder of the walk without his assistance, and feeling encouraged by the sight of the village which lay beneath their feet like a picture, with its limpid lake in front, the winding stream along its margin, and its hundred chimneys of whitened bricks.†   (source)
  • They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible.†   (source)
  • I know him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded.†   (source)
  • Muir had much of this manner in common, mingled with an apparent frankness that his Scottish intonation of voice, Scottish accent, and Scottish modes of expression were singularly adapted to sustain.†   (source)
  • The remaining three were white, though clad in vestments adapted, both in quality and color, to their present hazardous pursuit—that of hanging on the skirts of a retiring army in the wilderness.†   (source)
  • 'I am the servant of circumstances, sir,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'and I have long adapted myself to the governing power of my life.'†   (source)
  • I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons, because her rank and connections suited him; I felt he had not given her his love, and that her qualifications were ill adapted to win from him that treasure.†   (source)
  • One of them, though not precisely adapted to our present purpose, nevertheless deserves mention on other accounts.†   (source)
  • and the need of obtaining advantages to compensate for that expenditure, the intoxicating honors he received in Dresden, the diplomatic negotiations which, in the opinion of contemporaries, were carried on with a sincere desire to attain peace, but which only wounded the self-love of both sides, and millions of other causes that adapted themselves to the event that was happening or coincided with it.†   (source)
  • In the course of three or four years, when the country became adapted to agriculture, they built themselves handsome houses, spending on them several thousands.†   (source)
  • He urged upon his parishioners the duty of having a meeting expressly for them every Sunday, with a sermon adapted to their comprehension.†   (source)
  • Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly, each so well-tempered, and so happily adapted, and withal so circumstanced, (for even in that particular, a poet says, love demands that the parties be altogether paired,) that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.†   (source)
  • There was no piece of furniture adapted to sleeping purposes, except a tolerably long wooden coffer; and its cover was carved, to boot; which afforded Gringoire, when he stretched himself out upon it, a sensation somewhat similar to that which Micromégas would feel if he were to lie down on the Alps.†   (source)
  • in studies of a nature more than all else adapted to deaden impressions of the outward world, it is by that sweet word alone—by Ligeia—that I bring before mine eyes in fancy the image of her who is no more.†   (source)
  • I had scant luggage to take with me to London, for little of the little I possessed was adapted to my new station.†   (source)
  • But that is a small part of his function, which, in general, is to be a protector and caretaker of my child, who is singularly ill-adapted to take care of herself.†   (source)
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