1 The siege went on through the hot days of July, thundering days following nights of sullen, ominous stillness, and the town began to adjust itself.
2 It was not in Carreen's delicate nature to adjust herself to change.
3 For a moment her mind could not adjust itself to his words.
4 If they haven't adjusted to peace yet, they couldn't adjust to me.
5 He looked blankly indulgent, and yawned, and condescended, "That's a pretty slick arrangement on the radiator, so you can adjust it at any temperature you want."
6 But we heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs.
7 She was endeavoring to adjust the bunch of violets which had become loose from its fastening in her hair.
8 Conditions would some way adjust themselves, she felt; but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.
9 Our body is like a perfect watch that should go for a certain time; the watchmaker cannot open it, he can only adjust it by fumbling, and that blindfold.
10 He did what he could in its adjustment on the couch, but the best that he could do was to cover it.
11 This adjustment, I say, must have been done, and done well; done indeed for all Time, in the space of Time across which my machine had leaped.
12 But my mind was already in revolution; my guesses and impressions were slipping and sliding to a new adjustment.
13 Gradually, Scarlett drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
14 TABLEAUX VIVANTS depend for their effect not only on the happy disposal of lights and the delusive-interposition of layers of gauze, but on a corresponding adjustment of the mental vision.
15 The liberalizing tendencies of the latter half of the eighteenth century brought, along with kindlier relations between black and white, thoughts of ultimate adjustment and assimilation.