Changes

Examples

• It an't our stations in life that changes us, Mr Clennam; thoughts is free! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one. Plato. The Republic.
• Ah, young master, there's more changes than yours. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The art of printing has seen great changes since Gutenberg’s day. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He never looked at her; so she might study him unobserved, and note the changes which even this short time had wrought in him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The new life, on the other hand, was before all things capable of resisting great changes of temperature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What other changes have come upon me, besides the changes in my growth and looks, and in the knowledge I have garnered all this while? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• With wonderful quickness, and with a strength both of will and action, that appeared quite supernatural, he forced all these changes upon him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He drove it back to his workshop and made certain changes in the reel and the divider. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mademoiselle Hortense eyes him with a scowl upon her tight face, which gradually changes into a smile of scorn, You are very mysterieuse. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Subsequent changes involved the rotating of the cylinder instead of the wheels and many modifications in the form of the wheels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The world swims and changes round me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the following year Davy reported other chemical changes produced by electricity; he had succeeded in decomposing the fixed alkalis and disc overing the elements potassium and sodium. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But certainly she had made deep observations while she noted in silence the changes that passed around her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Everybody changes, everybody forgets; nobody has any heart. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But when he makes a back and forth reference, his whole attitude changes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Hardly, returned Bulstrode, in the same deliberate, silvery tone; except by some changes of plan. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Under such circumstances a judicious man changes the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For converting the grain into flour, the inventors of the Nineteenth Century have made revolutionary changes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• These changes were all made on my recommendation and without hesitation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Thus it will be possible to introduce almost endless changes in the style of house by variation of the same set of molds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Plainly, like all changes of government, from division in the rulers. Plato. The Republic.
• They take for granted the objective changes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I hope I have learnt how to accommodate myself to the changes of life. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In 1844 he proceeded to apply the principles maintained in his earlier study to changes of temperature as related to changes in the density of gases. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And thus matters went on until the early part of the present decade, when the factory facilities were becoming so rapidly outgrown as to render radical changes necessary. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He neither changes his dress before the journey nor talks of it afterwards. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• By certain changes they made in the thread carrier and connections, they were enabled to make a double looped stitch. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I asked leave to-- He lapsed away, even for minutes, ringing those measured changes on his hands the whole time. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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