Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defender of Anglomania is pleased to adopt a tone of injured liberality in condemning the "narrowing down of our models," and further continues, - "I cannot see that I am less patriotic because finding that the dress of Englishmen is more becoming or their speech more musical than our own, I try to copy after them in these respects." The italics are mine...
...name spelled in more than one way. There is a gentleman in Philadelphia who has amused himself by making out two thousand ways of spelling Shakespeare's name. Would it not be advisable for the "Shakespeare" Club to buy this little book select the most curious spelling and adopt it as their way of spelling the name, for have they not the sanction of Mr. Davenport Adams? I am quite certain they would find as much authority for so doing as for the way they have...
...scene, and we are informed as a climax that one of the injured players was "probably fatally injured." Such rhetorical efforts as this, savor over much of the morbid, and we trust that the writer of the glaring account, will, in the future, curb his imaginative enthusiasm and adopt a little less of the conventional dime novel style...
...upon to declare themselves in favor of a more extensive study of Physiology. But is not this tinged with a little of the spirit of the assassin? Is there not a concealed purpose to be able to find out an opponent's physiological weakness? As an offset let us adopt chain-armor. This is a suggestion to the conference committee...
...mind rests easily and can ill afford to be neglected, and that if no immediate activity of mind, in study for a profession, or in teaching, or in business, is looked forward to, it is far better and it will promote profit and pleasure, present and future, to adopt some definite and of course some interesting line of study...