Adult

Examples

• The females and young squatted in a thin line at the outer periphery of the circle, while just in front of them ranged the adult males. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Most of the remainder of children's alleged native egoism is simply an egoism which runs counter to an adult's egoism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Play tends to reproduce and affirm the crudities, as well as the excellencies, of surrounding adult life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The Old Man is the only fully adult male in the little group. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From the bottom of her heart, from the bottom of her soul, she despised and detested people, adult people. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• What is to be prepared for is, of course, the responsibilities and privileges of adult life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They rest on one side--in the greater number of species on the left, but in some on the right side; and occasionally reversed adult specimens occur. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The price of passage is fixed at $1,250, currency, for each adult passenger. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The adult frog can live all the rest of its days in the air, but it can be drowned if it is kept steadfastly below water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Both results may be seen in some types of kindergarten games where the idea of play is so highly symbolic that only the adult is conscious of it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Ability to share effectively in adult activities thus depends upon a prior training given with this end in view. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In all cases, the adult environment is accepted as a standard for the child. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The adult might also become fitted for sites or habits, in which organs of locomotion or of the senses, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• So if it were not for adult language, we should not be able to see the import of the babbling impulses of infancy. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• When all the adult males had joined in the thin line of circling dancers the attack commenced. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• An excitement that could no longer affect sane adults was spread among the children in the south of France and in the Rhone Valley. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Adults were also found, even among the nimble-witte d Greeks, to whom abstract reasoning was not altogether congenial. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The adults stood aloft upon their toes and their mighty tails, their talons pruning every available leaf and twig. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Much of what adults do is so remote in space and in meaning that playful imitation is less and less adequate to reproduce its spirit. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Adults being the formulators of the symbolism are naturally the authors and controllers of the technique. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Further, the heads of the adults are not so out of proportion to their bodies as in the case of the young. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The dose is a wineglassful for adults before meals and at bedtime; children, in proportion to age. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Cases can even be given of the larvae of allied species, or groups of species, differing more from each other than do the adults. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But as civilization advances, the gap between the capacities of the young and the concerns of adults widens. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Yet in her remoter soul, she knew as well as the adults knew: perhaps better. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In the adults, as I was to learn quite soon, this color deepens to an olive green and is darker in the male than in the female. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Editor: Margaret