And I may venture to ask my friend, should his admirable book reach, as I doubt not it will, another edition, to modify the passage.
Since the flavor of meat is most pleasing, it is not advisable to modify it by the addition of any other flavor.
Mention at least four kinds of fruit that could be used for the pudding and tell how the use of some kinds of fruit would modify the time of baking.
He knew that he should never call on Mrs. Dillingham with his wife, save as a matter of policy; but this did not modify his determination to have his own way.
And as each minstrel felt free to adopt whatever poem he found or heard that pleased him, so he felt free also to modify the incidents thereof, guided only by his experience as to what pleased his hearers.
Another current flowed from Arabia to meet and to modify the Greeks of Constantinople and the early Crusaders; and still another passed from Persia into Palestine and Europe.
He may as well stay at home unless he have power to modify the arrangements of departments made expressly by Sir C.
Miss Nightingale had ideas which were of real value, but they would not avail to modify and purify religious thought if they were presented in too combative and revolutionary a form.
Step by step the Middle and New England States began to modify their laws, but the Western States, in their Constitutions, were liberal in starting.
Let men become producers, as nature has designed them, and women be educated to fill all those stations which require less physical strength, and we should soon modify many of our social evils.
Let us petition our State governments so to modify the laws affecting marriage, and the custody of children, that the drunkard shall have no claims on either wife or child.
I should have told you at first that you will always find in me a wife who will respect your ideas and beliefs, who will never permit herself to judge you, and still less to seek to contend with them or to modify them.
This seems to me a most unhappy misconception, and it will be the chief object of my lectures to try to remove it, or at all events to modify it, as much as possible.
But there are movements which cannot be habitually affected, which can only modify types and attitudes of the inflections of the head.
The habitual types are those which, frequently reproduced, come to modify even the bones of the man, and give him a particular constitution.
The immanences are powers which, under the impulse of the constituent virtues of the being, govern and modify the co-penetrating forces of the body.
These nine physiognomies of the hand modify those of the face, often supply their place and sometimes even contradict them.
A simple conjunction may be introduced which will entirely modify all we have taken pains to say.
The richer and more fantastic carvings of Grinling Gibbons had never obtained any general recognition nor availed to modify the woodwork of the domestic interiors of England.
Gasparin; and it would still be necessary to modify and enlarge the facts if you admit that even unconscious desire suffices, in the absence of the expressed will.
Thus the will does not act directly upon the bones which receive the movement of the muscles; nor does the will modify any more directly the muscles, since, when deprived of nerves, they are incapable of movement.
Secondly, it is a reply presuming money, the most fleshly of objects, to modify or any way control religion, i.
He forgets the context; what introduced--what followed to explain or modify the opinions.
The butcher of the Cicadae is able to modify an excessively heating diet with vegetable fare.
More difficult to convince, I modify the experiment before drawing a conclusion.
Exposed to fortuitous hazards, he must be able to modify his tactics within the limits of his modest perceptions.
It is a well-known fact that man can, by pursuing a certain method of breeding or cultivation, improve and in various ways modify the character of the different domestic animals and plants.
Eggs, he states, were submitted to incubation in a vertical instead of a horizontal position; they were covered with varnish in certain places so as to stop or modify evaporation and respiration.
That the Blue Disease may modify the course of illness is conceivable, and seems to be supported by evidence.
But now he seemed to think that she ought to be glad thus to disburden her conscience and by just so much to modify her indebtedness to him!
Still, she wondered, if he did know, would it modify his attitude toward her in any way?
Although it is His affection to us of which my text primarily speaks, I can so modify and regulate the flow of that divine love to my heart that it becomes my duty to continue in Christ's love to me.
He inquired carefully how breeders set to work, when they wished to modify the structure and appearance of a species to their own ends, and it was soon clear to him that selection for breeding purposes played the chief part.
This was meant not merely to supplement and modify competition, but to displace it completely, or (in the more moderate program) in large part.
In view of these facts it seems necessary to modifythe displacement theory greatly.
Whole species of lower animals became extinct because they were unable to modify their instincts as the environment changed.
He is able tomodify them, but in his case the task is peculiarly complex.
In return for a contribution of one hundred pounds from the old religious orders, they agreed to modify the ancient statutes concerning the admission of monks to academical degrees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
