Shifts
[ʃifts]
Examples
- The scene shifts from the plantation, to Betteredge's little sitting-room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The wind shifts to the weSt. Peace, peace, Banshee--keening at every window! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Oh, she varies: she shifts and changes like the wind. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Be it only known then, that it was just at the end of his Lorne shifts and his lawn shirts. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- As business increased he put on a night force, and was his own foreman on both shifts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She would be free forever from the shifts, the expedients, the humiliations of the relatively poor. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- When she got her money she gambled; when she had gambled it she was put to shifts to live; who knows how or by what means she succeeded? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This department works twenty-four hours a day, in three shifts of eight hours each; iron is being melted and poured continuously during the day and first night shifts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An anti-cyclone is a storm of opposite character, the general tendency of the winds in it being away from the center, while it also shifts within comparatively small limits. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What I object to is the emphasis which shifts the blame for our troubles from the shoulders of the people to those of the corrupting interests. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All right, I will give you $60 per week to run both shifts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You needn't go and tell them all our little shifts, and expose our poverty in that perfectly unnecessary way. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The centre of interest for European history which once lay in the Levant shifts now from the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Speaking accurately, all direction is but re-direction; it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Inputed by Dennis