All this, I dare say, will come to pass in course of time, but, not being as yet conceded to him, he has to shift as best he may.
The scenes of the story shift from the backwoods to New Orleans, from New Orleans to Mexico.
Night work shall not exceed in duration 10 hours in 24, and in every shift one or more intervals, of an aggregate duration of at least one hour, shall be granted.
But the administration of Labour Protection, properly so called, is tending steadily to shift its centre of gravity more and more towards special extraordinary organs.
Night work shall not exceed in duration 10 hours in the 24, and in every shift intervals must be granted of an aggregate duration of at least one hour.
It's my firm belief that he hadn't the right sort of medicine with him, and he has fudged up something to make shift with.
You must bring down buckets from the spring till we have time to dig a channel; and then they'll shift for themselves.
I'm afraid we shall have to go back to our own lookout, and trust to a shift of the ice," said La Salle.
Let us put our guns and food in the boat, and have her already for use; by morning we shall have a heavy nip, or a shift of wind, and in either case we ought to change our quarters.
The races of men shift and hover like shadows over her surface, while, as a woman dries her garment before the household flame, she turns it, by portions, now to and now from the sun heart of fire.
Its contents or material shift their values back and forth from technological or utilitarian to aesthetic, ethical, or affectional.
It is precisely this shift which leads the presentative realist to substitute for irreducibility and unambiguity of logical function (use in inference) physical and metaphysical isolation and elementariness.
But here they tend to shift their logic and to make the fulfilment of some organization (variously defined) the standard good.
A soldier needs to know how to shoot and take cover and shift for himself--not to box or to play football.
I thought I should have caught one of them, for he flew as if one of his wings was broken, and often tumbled close to the ground; but, as I came near, he always made a shift to get away.
He did not believe it was the opinion of any gentleman in that House that commerce ought to be left to shift for itself, unattended to.
Men change subtly as nations succeed to nations, religions to religions, philosophies to philosophies; and it is a property of immortal poetry to shift its appeal.
But on the fourth day the storm abated to a half gale, and the sloop, being brought about and put under more sail, became so much steadier that I made shift to eat a scant meal and crawl on deck.
I had insisted upon lifting myself upon my elbow, and when the padre handed me the ring, I made shift to slip it upon the finger of my bride.
Certain of his identity, I would have preferred to postpone a meeting until I had found opportunity to bathe and to change to the one shift of linen and clothes which I carried behind the cantle of my saddle.
As for myself, being the biggest man of the party, I found that I could make shift to start off with a hundredweight.
I felt strangely weak and faint, but made shift to turn my head enough to see that I was in a long, wide space between decks.
About midnight, the boat chancing to swing about stern foremost in the current, I left my watch long enough to shift into dry garments before a crackling fire.
My thanks, senor, but I can make shift to sleep on deck," I replied.
On the other hand, his Whig enemies accuse him of endeavouring to shift the odium of these exclusions on the Queen, which is certainly not true; but in these times bitterness and disappointment never fail to engender swarms of lies.
Though ill with the gout, I made shift to hobble down to the House of Commons to hear Peel's defence last night.
I think I have a shift or two still, if I may be so bold.
I knew you would make shift to sup at the goldsmith's.
On camping at night I shift to night foot-gear as soon as ever the tent is pitched, and generally slip on my windproof blouse, as one cools down like smoke after the exertion of man-hauling a heavy sledge for hours.
The following day all the afterguard were turned on to shift coal.
There wasn't an officer on the ship who did not shift coal till he was sick of the sight of it, but I heard no complaints.
There could be no advantage in waiting here, and soon all arrangements were made for a general shift to Hut Point.
We have had an awful day, but have managed to shift enough gear into the cave to live there temporarily.
She did not shift her gaze from the sunlit valley.
The men around Hawksworth had begun to shift uncomfortably.
The prince of course has his own personal supplies, but everyone else must shiftfor himself.
Around the room the nobles began to shift uneasily, their bleary eyes filling with alarm.
The Discovery careened in the chopping seas, responding readily to the shift in rudder and canvas.
The white man looked at the impassive Malay with disgust, then glanced around the horizon--then again at the helmsman and ordered curtly: "Shift the helm back again.
You must all shift aboard the brig," he began, speaking quickly, "and then we may get over this trouble without coming to blows.
I am a peaceable man, Captain Lingard, but when put to it, I could fight as well as any of them flat-nosed chaps we have to make shift with, instead of a proper crew of decent Christians.
The wind may take a sudden turn and so shift the ice as to leave an ample channel through which the ship, fog permitting, may safely pass on to its destination.
Despite all that Meredith could do, and after his notorious effort to shift the subject he could do very little, the light prattle ran on about Helen Sherwood and Brainard Macauley.
In 1806, for instance, it took exactly a week toshift troops from Liverpool to London, a distance of thirty-four miles.
No, not immediately," answered Mr. Tolman, pausing to shift the gear of the car.
No sidings of any kind, so that local superintendence toshift points would be altogether avoided.
At present, people shift into stage-coaches at certain stations, and they would have no greater trouble in shifting into the omnibuses on the single branch lines.
The reader will forgive the abruptness of the shift of attention from the subject of one chapter to the subject of the next.
Make a little shift at first; double the blanket till we get another; lie with the maid a night or two; never stand for a trifle.
While the ebb lasts, and this breeze stands, we shall have plain sailing; the difficulty will come on the flood, or with a shift of wind.
Fill all your empty casks aft with salt-water, immediately; and if that wont do, shift some of your shot forward.
This removed the only possible objection to the plan, and early next morning the hunters prepared to shift camp.
Separate as soon as possible, and scatter in all directions, make their way to small, isolated places, change their appearance as much as possible, and each shift for himself.
The ponies were cast loose to shift for themselves.
He's too lazy to stop here and shift for himself, although he would have been glad to sponge upon us.
If the blast succeeded enough rock might be brought down to enable the work to go on, by using a night and day shift of men.
All right, sor," was the answer, and the Irish foreman went back toward the far end of the bore to tell the last shift of laborers to come out so the blast could be set off.
The Indian foreman had not been in the tunnel with the last shift of men, having left them to Tim Sullivan to get out in time.
Shift the light over this way," called Tom to Walter Titus, who was operating it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shift" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
