Altering

Examples

• There are so many other things in the world that want altering--I like to take these things as they are. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Calypso sighing for Ulysses, observed Crispin, without altering his position; though I dare say it is only the wind moaning through the ropes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• More than any other generalization it illuminates the currents of our national life and explains the altering tasks of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The nature of things has stamped upon corn a real value, which cannot be altered by merely altering its money price. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• By altering the rate, on the contrary, the proportion between those two values is necessarily altered. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Pray do not speak of altering anything. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yes, and he--yes, it was Snagsby, said Mr. Weevle, altering the construction of his sentence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• With considerable difficulty and danger we succeeded at length in altering our course, and stretched out from shore. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You are altering your opinion about Laura, she said. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Dear me,' said Mr. Nupkins, turning very red, and altering his whole manner directly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The Jew remained, without altering his position, for nearly three hours, at the expiry of which steps were heard on the dungeon stair. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In that machine the type cylinder is placed horizontally, by which means the paper is supplied directly to it without altering its direction. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It was altering the relations of rich men to the state and to their poorer fellow citizens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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