
The architecture, the music, the prayer, partake of the madness: the arts sink into shift and make-believe. I made shift to load it in the dark, and, having lit it with a wax match, took the opportunity to inspect the interior of my prison. The old butler put a sirloin and a game-pie on the sideboard, and then left the little party to shift for themselves, in pleasant picnic fashion. Jacob and John instantly went down on one knee before her, and their four lumbering brethren behind made shift to do the same. Till at last aw'd to shift th' cheer further back for aw couldn't bide near it. Again the breeze fell flat, then puffed from the old quarter, compelling a shift back of sheets and tackles. You get pointed one way, and to have to shift and face round in another is candy for a weather vane but bread for a sleuth. In all these cases, people experienced a very particular shift in their relationship to, and understanding of, dimensions.
Pursuit by a predator, random movement, or other cause may be responsible for shift from one edge to another.
Yet another shift of the light wind, another degree passed, and we are all shivering in winter wraps. They were chagrined by the flow of viewers away from television programming, but they hoped this shift could be managed and ultimately exploited. These last make shift to work they go to work through the snow to the ship, and about their other business. The greatest benefit of a shift in operating model appears to be the recollection that we are working with a mere model. People became the content, a shift that had implications not just for the online community but for society as a whole. The fact is, that in our army we leave the most important branch of the service to shift for itself. The attempt to shift the chief burden of responsibility on to the prisoners is surely scarcely chivalrous. Beleeve me sirs, I never saw a wretch, Make better shift to save her little life. When I was twenty years old, I had buried both my parents, and was left to shift for myself. Her ladies and chambermaid got down, and went away, leaving her to shift as she might. She was glad to shift the whole matter to his broad shoulders now, and let him take the lead. Its scenes shift rapidly and its actors play the game of life fearlessly and like men. In terror he gave the load a shift on his shoulder and started off almost at a run.
She had often called herself a human barometer and her spirits were apt to shift with the wind.