Citations:adopted

English citations of adopted

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• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs — a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  And this is the Bibliographical system here adopted; and it is the only one that can possibly succeed, for it alone is practicable.

  A few years ago this same plan was adopted by the Bay whalemen of New Zealand, who, upon descrying the game, gave notice to the ready-manned boats nigh the beach.