Adjusting

Examples

• While Mary is adjusting her ideas, he continued, let us return to Mr. Bingley. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She was before the mirror again, adjusting her hair with a light hand, drawing down her veil, and giving a dexterous touch to her furs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He laid his hand upon the coffin, and mechanically adjusting the pall with which it was covered, motioned them onward. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She is too busy to waste time in adjusting an ordinary telephone to her ear, and so wears one of special design all the time. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Oh, said Caleb, leaning forward, adjusting his finger-tips with nicety and looking meditatively on the ground. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Well, it belongs to a stepson of mine, said Raffles, adjusting himself in a swaggering attitude. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This, sir,' replied Silas, adjusting his spectacles, and referring to the title-page, 'is Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Kenge, adjusting his cravat, then looked at us. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He comes back pretty steadily, adjusting his fur cap on his head and looking keenly at them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A présent c'est un fait accompli, said he, re-adjusting his palet?tand we had no more words on the subject. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• My amiable child, murmured Mr. Turveydrop, adjusting his cravat. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We worked on a self-adjusting telegraph relay, which would have been very valuable if we could have got it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The photographic camera, introduced by Daguerre in 1839, adds to the camera obscura some means for adjusting the distance between the lens and the screen on which the image falls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He says-- Sir Leicester is so long in taking out his eye-glass and adjusting it that my Lady looks a little irritated. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When he returned, the girl was adjusting her shawl and bonnet, as if preparing to be gone. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Presently the honoured parent appeared to be adjusting some instrument like a great corkscrew. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Well, I won't, said Mrs. Vincy, roused by this appeal and adjusting herself with a little shake as of a bird which lays down its ruffled plumage. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• These are then removed to the adjusting room, where they are adjusted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That was the time, sir, answers Tony, faintly adjusting his whiskers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Old Betty was proof even against this temptation, and fell to adjusting her black bonnet and shawl. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My advice is, said Cassy, steadily, as she began adjusting some things about the room, that you let Tom alone. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• William, says Mr. Weevle, adjusting his whiskers, there's combustion going on there! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is true Lydgate was constantly visiting the homes of the poor and adjusting his prescriptions of diet to their small means; but, dear me! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He made a feint of adjusting the lining, and said, 'Yes. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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