Substituting

Examples

• In 1858 the machine was further improved by substituting an automatic rake for the raker on the machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This inconvenience was experienced in the early progress of Steam Navigation, and many attempts were made to overcome it, by substituting a different kind of propeller. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• These consisted in increasing the fines, and, in some cases, substituting death for fines. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This instrument can also be used to indicate minute changes of moisture in the air by substituting a strip of gelatine in place of the vulcanite. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I answer this objection by substituting a juster idea of penetration. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• That discreet damsel was attired as usual, except that she was now engaged in substituting for her green kid gloves a pair of white. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mr. Callahan removed the two dials, and, substituting type wheels, turned the movements face to face, so that each type wheel could imprint its characters upon a paper tape in two lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I assured him that I had no thought of substituting any one for him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And now since 1880, the chemists are pushing aside the vegetable processes, and substituting mineral processes, by which tanning is still further shortened and cheapened. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Wedgwood tried to make pictures by substituting his prepared paper for the ground glass, but the paper was too insensitive to obtain any result. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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