4281 examples of alter in sentences

This was a strange influence she possessed, thus to alter a man's attitude entirely by the mere voicing of a wish.

It will in no way alter my determination to keep silent.

And if you could ask Caesar himself what he had done in the city and in the garb of peace, he would reply that he had passed many excellent laws; but his memoranda he would either alter or not produce at all; or, if he did produce them, he would not class them among his acts.

It could not be that it was too late to alter that choice.

The slave's feelings toward it, are one thing; the condition itself, the object of these feelings, is another thing; his feelings cannot alter the nature of that condition.

It is very well known, I dare say, to many gentlemen in this House, that the noise and commotion were such as obliged Congress once more to alter their Treasury Department, and place it under the management of a Board of Commissioners."

His house, at Belem, was levelled to the ground at the time of the Duke's decapitation, and on the site was erected a column of disgrace, which still remains, though some shops have been erected beside it to hide the inscription; a just symbol of the conduct of the nation on this subject, for what they cannot alter they strive to conceal.

In the Mediterranean lands a new idea was beginning to alter the conduct of society.

But different meteorological conditions do not materially alter the results.

The facts of Christianity never change, the interpretations of those facts alter from age to age.

The Gospels bring before us the visible and distinct outlines of a life which, after all efforts to alter the idea of it, remains still the same; they present certain clusters of leading ideas and facts so embedded in their substance that no criticism of detail can possibly get rid of them, without absolutely obliterating the whole record.

Would it not be well to recognise the fact which we cannot alter, and to abstain from demanding from frail human nature what human nature cannot render?

SEE Calverton, V. H. ALTER, IRVING.

Harry Alter's dependabook, no.120.

Irving Alter (A); 18Aug64; R343022. ALY, BOWER.

You would have to melt off layers of hips and other bits of most of the Eastern American, and then alter the set of their bones to get them to resemble any of these.

We alter our paint often, and, at need, can alter our rig.

We alter our paint often, and, at need, can alter our rig.

It makes us so understanding of the past that we would not alter one jot or tittle in it.

Consider that by mourning and lamenting thou canst not alter the event which has occurred, and thou wilt in the end injure thyself.

"Nothing you have said seems to me to alter the situation.

Payson, Sr., had never taken any particular pains to alter his son's opinion of himself.

Even theft with asportation could not alter property rights, even in favor of innocent purchasers, when the owner did not intend to part therewith.

There is a difference; for here the same way is kept, although there might be breaches; but it is quite otherwise, if you alter the whole method from what it was at first.

Philosophers might abolish kings a hundred times over, he maintained, they could not alter the fact that every man and woman does choose a king and repudiate all the pride of citizenship for the exultation of humility.

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