Shifting

Examples

• Mr. Jackson, shifting himself slightly in his chair, turned a tranquil gaze on the young man's burning face. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The shifting of the air-currents means that the centre of air-pressure moves. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Otherwise, it is neither giving nor taking, but a shifting about of the position of things in space, like the stirring of water and sand with a stick. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He pointed out to me the shifting colours of the landscape, and the appearances of the sky. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In these a single machine is provided with various tools, and adapted to perform a great variety of work by shifting the position of the material and the tools. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Wrights doubted whether this was the best form for shifting weather, and built theirs more on the pattern of the gull’s wings, curving slightly at the tips. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There is but such a quantity of merit between them; just enough to make one good sort of man; and of late it has been shifting about pretty much. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• K K, Steam Winches for working moorings and shifting position of the barge. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The changes made by some actions (those which by contrast may be called mechanical) are external; they are shifting things about. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The shifting of the type-wheels is brought about as follows: On the keyboard of the transmitter there are two characters known as dots--namely, the letter dot and the figure dot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Between the two, shifting backwards and forwards at certain seasons of the year, lies the most horrible quicksand on the shores of Yorkshire. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Moreover, ineradicable connection with the changing, the inexplicably shifting, and with the manifold, the diverse, clings to experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• When we recognize that the focus of politics is shifting from a mechanical to a human center we shall have reached what is, I believe, the most essential idea in modern politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such shifting of beds would also be of great service to persons ill of a fever, as it refreshes and frequently procures sleep. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The Wrights realized that a more automatic method of meeting these changes must be found, and they worked it out by shifting the rudder and the surfaces of the airship as it met the air-currents. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Such shiftings about of population became a very distinctive part of the political methods of the Assyrian new empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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