Converted

Examples

• I am quite an Infidel about it, and shall never be converted. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He therefore concluded that the stored-up fat in the animal was then converted into cream, and that it was practicable, therefore, to convert beef fat into butter fat. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Tom seemed to think there was decidedly room for improvement in me, and seemed very earnest that I should be converted. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Put up 'A Voice from the Flames,' 'A Trumpet-warning to Jericho,' and the 'Fleshpots Broken; or, the Converted Cannibal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The scantlings of the Marquis of Worcester were now being converted into complete structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He proposed in the recess--in the room that used to be a picture-gallery--that Sir Monckton converted into it saloon? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The important changes made from that time up to 1890 converted the phonograph from a scientific toy into a successful industrial apparatus. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• By these attentions, that veteran rake, Rawdon Crawley, found himself converted into a very happy and submissive married man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Now I am so pressed by the Guises and my own people that _I am constrained_ to deliver you up into the hands of your enemies, and to-morrow you will be burned unless you are converted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They converted the steelyard into platform scales. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• And from being a keeper of the law he is converted into a breaker of it? Plato. The Republic.
• Attach a dynamo to a steam engine, and the power of the steam engine will, through the dynamo, become transformed or converted into a powerful electric current. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In addition to these and many other electrical machines this century has discovered several ways by which the electricity developed by such machines may be converted into light. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Holley of the United States improved the Bessemer apparatus by enabling a greater number of charges to be converted into steel within a given time. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They converted what they could of the conquered people to Islam; the Christians they disarmed, and conferred upon them the monopoly of tax-paying. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It converted a powerful rival into an ally, it gave the Bell Company fifty-six thousand new telephones in fifty-five cities, and it made that company the national system of the United States. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Stone buildings can be converted into good silos by furring out and double boarding on the inside. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• H is a swinging frame, carrying the model T of a shoe last, and a roughed-out block U, partly converted into a shoe last. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But Isis, we are told, is no longer Isis but Hariti, a pestilence goddess whom Buddha converted and made benevolent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Our city will now require the slight addition of a camp, and the citizen will be converted into a soldier. Plato. The Republic.
• This was done; and whom should Traddles and I then behold, to our amazement, in this converted Number Twenty Seven, but Uriah Heep! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Bell’s enthusiasm had already converted his assistant, Watson; it now won over Hubbard and Sanders. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mechanical energy may be converted into heat; if heat disappears, some other form of energy, equivalent in amount to the heat lost, must replace it. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The Colosseum at Rome, for example, the arena of many great gladiatorial shows, was converted into a fortress, and so was the amphitheatre at Arles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The movement of the two elements in relation to each other requires some force to overcome the repellent and attractive actions, and this force is converted into electrical energy. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He had converted the industry into a new and terrible purity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Bell and Tainter with their _photophone_ have converted the undulatory waves of light into the sweetest music. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They appeared to be interested, and I proceeded to enter upon a comparison of coal made into gas or burned under a boiler to be converted into electricity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For instance, a swim-bladder has apparently been converted into an air-breathing lung. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The same little space a few feet square was soon converted by this precocious youth into a newspaper office. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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