"Readjust" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... century great changes took place on the banks of the Roya, and the foundations of Bruges as we know it now were laid. Just as in the memorable years 1814 and 1815 the empire of Napoleon fell into fragments, and princes and statesmen hastened to readjust the map of Europe in their own interests, so in the ninth century the empire of Charlemagne was crumbling away; and in the scramble for the spoils, the Normans carried fire and sword into Flanders. Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, at this crisis called to his aid ...
— Bruges and West Flanders • George W. T. Omond
... occasions. In a race you can use a higher grade, so that aviator said. But then you'll have to readjust the magneto and carburetor." ...
— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer
... the composer is not perfectly familiar with the rules that govern the prosody of the language to which he is setting music. In the operas of Meyerbeer many passages occur in which it is necessary to readjust the syllables to the notes on account of their misplaced accent. Here is an illustration from Hoel's Grand Air in Le Pardon de Ploermel (Meyerbeer), Act II. (Note that the tonic accent in French falls always on ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam
... tried to readjust her thoughts and get them into some sort of connection; finally she laughed, laughed so long and so ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock
... see what takes place the moment the present type is launched. If, by any error on the part of the aviator, he should fail to readjust the tail to a neutral or to a proper angle of incidence, after leaving the ground, the machine would try to perform an ...
— Aeroplanes • J. S. Zerbe***
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