Adults

Examples

• 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.

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