Altered

Examples

• You ought not to have come today, she said in an altered voice; and suddenly she turned, flung her arms about him and pressed her lips to his. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• His manner appeared to have altered strangely in the interval since I had last seen him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I passed to the altered days when I was so blest as to find friends in all around me, and to be beloved. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Her perpetual study was to relieve us from labour and to spread ease and even elegance over our altered mode of life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And his behaviour, so strikingly altered--what could it mean? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Under these circumstances my first impression altered to a certain extent. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Therefore something had occurred between seven-thirty and nine o'clock which had completely altered her feelings towards him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• And I couldn't bear to slight him, because he was a little altered--could I, Jip? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I bent over the body, and took in my hand the edge of his cloak, less altered in appearance than the human frame it clothed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You must be very much altered indeed since we parted, if that could be the case, and you not there. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• But the next moment he altered his mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Ever since her aunt altered her mind, and said she might have the man after all, replied Humphrey, without removing his eyes from the fire. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She was an altered creature, quieted, stupefied, indifferent to everything that passed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But why, then, are you altered? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Why is she altered? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She looks so cut up and altered that I'm sure she can't last long. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You too have altered, and for the better, I think Timothy, said Yeobright, surveying the firm figure of Fairway. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The proportion between them, therefore, must remain the same, and cannot well be altered, at least for any considerable time, by any such revolutions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Things has altered with me, sir,' said Job. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His face quite altered as he looked at me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The parsonage was so altered, both inside and out, that the real pain was less than she had anticipated. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Her feelings altered towards Emma. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The final end of life is fixed; given a state framed with this end in view, not even minor details are to be altered. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Not _excessively_ fond, said she; I liked her: I respected her as I should do now: she seems to me very little altered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He often thanked us for the books we lent him, and for the use of our instruments, but never spoke of his altered abode or change of circumstances. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• MY girls were nothing to her, and yet they used to be foolish enough; but as for Miss Marianne, she is quite an altered creature. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• When I saw Rosanna, I altered my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My situation is as much altered as my income. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He thought it absurd, after he had reformed, and altered, and improved everywhere, to suit my notions, that I still remained unsatisfied. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• My opinion is in no way altered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Typist: Ted