522 Verbs to Use for the Word change

The machine, therefore, has undergone no change in its position or course; the change is altogether in our feelings.

" Early February brought not only lengthening daylight, but a radical change in the weather.

Yet the description of a camp at Grafton, Virginia, in March, shows that there a very bad and dangerous state of things existed at that time, and "one-seventh of the regiment was sick and unfit for duty"; but the bold and clear report of Dr. Hammond of the United States Army produced a decided and favorable change, and "the regiment has now less than the average amount of sickness."

He will see at intervals what, from a little distance, seems like a solid wall of stone, laid with care, and upon which the lapse of centuries has wrought no change, so regular are the strata of which it is composed, while an occasional boulder, large as a house, and covered with moss, reminds him of the ruined tower of some stronghold.

They were all absolutely opposed to him in politics, and discussion sometimes ran high, but there was never anything personalall were men of the world, had seen many changes in France in their lives; many had played a part in politics under the former regimes.

On the other hand, I see no good reason for doubting the necessary alternative, that all these varied species have been evolved from pre- existing crocodilian forms, by the operation of causes as completely a part of the common order of nature as those which have effected the changes of the inorganic world.

It was later, that I noticed a change in the constant color of the gardens.

" "Ah, I wish it were possible, my dear Evadne, but the peculiar susceptibility of my internal organism precludes all thought of my making such a radical change in the matter of diet.

I say final triumph, for the removal of young Noaks and Hogson from the rival school caused a great change for the better among the ranks of Horace House.

3. Note the changes in tone in the Seven Ages of Man (Appendix 4).

So also, though, owing to the precaution of Livius, the Roman camp showed no change of size, it had not escaped the quick ear of the Carthaginian general that the trumpet which gave the signal to the Roman legions sounded that morning once oftener than usual, as if directing the troops of some additional superior officer.

Even the superstructure slowly erected upon these foundations has suffered little change in the most changing period of the world's history, and until recently its additions, few in number, have varied little from the plans of the original architects.

The old cannibal observes the change of base, feels insulted at the implied distrust, and resolves to have satisfaction.

It sadly needed change.

We had, in singular succession, dead calms and fresh breezes, stiff gales and sudden squalls; saw sharks, flying-fish, and dolphins; spoke several vessels: had a visit from Neptune when we crossed the Line, and were compelled to propitiate his favour with some gallons of spirits, which he seems always to find a very agreeable change from sea water; and touched at Table Bay and at Madagascar.

I am sure the men must have felt the change, though certainly they were too far away to see it, for they shifted by ever so little from their first frozen attitude.

" "No, nothing of the kind," I answered, soothingly; "you probably want change.

Nothing marks the change that England had passed through during the first half of the eleventh century more certainly than the fact that William Duke of Normandy was crowned King of England, not in the old Minster of Winchester but in that of St Peter, Westminster, which Pope Nicholas II.

" ARMIES IN A DEADLOCK Later reports from the Aisne valley, up to October 17, when the big battle had been five weeks in progress, indicated little change in the general situation.

Mrs. Bemont was paid, and while she was giving me the change, "Oh!" said she, "you're goin' right to Miss Tucker's,

According to the general terms of the survival of the fittest and the growth of muscles most used to the detriment of others,' says the lieutenant in an unusual burst of humor, 'a band of cattle inhabiting this district, in the far future, would be all tail and no body, unless the mosquitoes should experience a change of numbers.'

"You will get to be a regular fanatic, Evadne, if you ring the changes on that subject so often.

"If you mean a change of administration, the upsetting of a stage, or the death of a cart-horse; they are all equally crisises, in the American vocabulary.

Assuming that Holymead arrived at Riversbrook at 9.30, I allowed half an hour for his angry interview with Sir Horace, half an hour for the walk from Riversbrook to Hampstead Tube station, and half an hour for the journey from Hampstead to Hyde Park Corner, which would have involved a change at Leicester Square.

The public was curious, a little of everythingmembers of the National Assembly, officers all in uniform, pretty women of all categoriesthe group of journalists with keen eager faces watching every change of expression of the marshal's facesome well-known faces, wives of members or leading political and literary men, a fair amount of the frailer sisterhood, actresses and demi-mondaines, making a great effect of waving plumes and diamonds.

522 Verbs to Use for the Word  change