Some sudden shift might help me to provide.

But even a desperate shift is some easement when sorely pushed.

In every phase of life, there is a constant shifting of men according to temperament, ability, and general influence and power.

Overtime was advised against, a double or triple shift being recommended.

How easily they could save their pious customers all qualms of conscience about the weekly shiftings of fashion, by demonstrating that the last importation of Parisian indecency, just now flaunting here on promenade, was the identical style of dress in which the pious Sarah kneaded cakes for the angels, the modest Rebecca drew water for the camels of Abraham's servants.

She turned and looked into the face of her friend, "Old Man Wheeler," who was standing so near her that with each of his rapid shiftings from foot to foot he threatened to tread on the hem of her gown.

Hence, if a gradual shifting of the deep sea, which at present bars migration between the easternmost of these islands and America, took place to the westward, while the American side of the sea-bottom was gradually upheaved, the palaeontologist of the future would find, over the Pacific area, exactly such a change as I am supposing to have occurred in the North-Atlantic area at the close of the Mesozoic period.

The miserable shifts to which the surviving actors were reduced during the commonwealth, have been often detailed.

Legislators, government officials and farm associations by sudden shifting of labor battalions cannot camouflage the fact that the front line trenches of the fighting army and labor force are undermanned.

The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose well say'd, a world too wide

The coast-wise skipper in making a fog-bound harbor will see a buoy through a slight shift in fog, while a landsman might look in vain.

A movement, a slight shifting of her eyes, and she would have seen him.

Lines 186-195 were substituted in 1845 for Heavy, and dull, and cloudy is the night; No star supplies the comfort of it's light, Glimmer the dim-lit Alps, dilated, round, And one sole light shifts in the vale profound; [s1] While, [s2] opposite, the waning moon hangs still, And red, above her [s3] melancholy hill.

Lines 186-195 were substituted in 1845 for Heavy, and dull, and cloudy is the night; No star supplies the comfort of it's light, Glimmer the dim-lit Alps, dilated, round, And one sole light shifts in the vale profound; [s1] While, [s2] opposite, the waning moon hangs still, And red, above her [s3] melancholy hill.

"They'll do considerable shifting; every college team does," said Dick; and he was right.

Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian make-shift of a building, you may think it), what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished.

There were the twins nestling in their cradle, locked in one another's arms; there was Rose, the dear lost one, in her little shift; there were Ambroise and Gervais, bare, and wrestling on a patch of grass; there were Gregoire and Nicolas birdnesting; there were Claire and the three other girls, Louise, Madeleine, and Marguerite, romping about the farm, quarrelling with the fowls, springing upon the horses' backs.

A single taper in the vale profound Shifts, while the Alps dilated glimmer round; 1832.]

Let every man examine himself, and he will find this a much harder task than he might suppose; for, unhappily, a man usually takes words as mere make-shifts; his knowledge and his thought are in most cases better than his method of expression.

It would be an endless task to consider comedy in the same light, and to mention the innumerable shifts that small wits put in practice to raise a laugh.

It is this eternal shifting about of the seat of Governmentthe disadvantage of which must be manifest to every onethat makes me hope Bytown, the position of which is so central, may some day be decided upon as the city to enjoy that honour permanently.

It was a fatal shift.

Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any foolish shift: ‘Tis haste Makes waste: Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

But to Mary it was nothing, she hardly pretended, but a forlorn last shift.

This frequent shifting and changing of baggage and canoes exhausted the men, who have not yet recovered from the toils of the long portage.