MARY has returned with FAITH BLY, who stands demure and pretty on the far side of the table, her face an embodiment of the pathetic watchful prison faculty of adapting itself to whatever may be best for its owner at the moment.
Mr. Willis then conceived the idea of adapting to the reed cylindrical tubes, whose length could be varied by sliding joints.
In his first attempt he produced the vowel sounds, byadapting a reed R, Fig.
The rulers and the diplomats were doubly attentive now to adapting their moves to the pacifist psychology of the masses.
These facts account for the widespread and deeply-rooted belief that any novelist or writer of short stories should write successful plays if he wishes, particularly if adapting his own work for the stage.
Any one adapting A Tale of Two Cities, if he uses Jerry Cruncher, will probably combine the two scenes in his home.
The "May Oatway" alarm has got round the first difficulty in a most ingenious manner by adapting the principle of the compensation methods already described in connection with watches.
I proceed now to the examination of the plates, and the manner of adapting their length to the process of cutting spiral teeth on bevil wheels.
Yet it seems impossible to deny that both Normans and Lombards in adapting antecedent models added something of their own, specific to themselves as Northerners.
The problem that occupied all the Renaissance architects was how to restore the manner of ancient Rome as far as possible, adapting it to the modern requirements of ecclesiastical, civic, and domestic buildings.
But we do not want modern instances to assure us that, in adapting a play from one language to another, merely to keep the plot unimpaired implies more than ordinary qualities of skill or conscientiousness.
Purcell seems to have been of that number, and to merit censure for having prostituted his invention, by adapting music to some of the most wretched ribaldry that was ever obtruded on the world for humour.
It was less a case of adapting himself by painful degrees to a hostile primitive environment than a forthright competitive struggle to make himself a master in this sort of environment.
Considering your early handicaps you have certainly shown some speed in adapting yourself to conditions," Carr observed facetiously.
Of course, I know the church is adapting itself to modern thought, in a way.
Harold too was a man of resources; he had gained his Welsh successes by adapting his men to the enemy's way of fighting.
In adapting of means to ends, in applying to each class of men that kind of argument which best suited it, the diplomacy, the statesmanship, of William was perfect.
Philadelphia is conservative in matters of cookery when conservatism means clinging to its great traditions; it is liberal when liberality means adapting to its own delightful ends the new idea or the new masterpiece.
Lily had abundant energy of her own, but it was restricted by the necessity of adapting herself to her aunt's habits.
Her faculty foradapting herself, for entering into other people's feelings, if it served her now and then in small contingencies, hampered her in the decisive moments of life.
They have quite a fureur for dress and ornaments, hi theadapting of which, however, they have not so much taste as the French women have.
Sometimes adapting its nest to the building material at hand, it weaves it of grasses and twigs, and suspends it from the limb of a bush or tree overhanging the water, where it swings like an oriole's.
Incapable of adapting himself to any state of things whatsoever, he first abuses the state of things in Norway, then that of Europe generally.
The degenerate is incapable of adapting himself to existing circumstances.
He did not succeed in adapting his face to the position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault.
We see that all depends upon the capacity of adapting existing notions to fresh facts.
All to be done is to put in a few tufts of any desired kind, and leave them alone, adapting the kind to the position.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adapting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
