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• Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
• No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.
• At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them [...]
• Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.
• We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
• The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.
• There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
• My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
• If you press shift-P, the preview display will change.
• Does it come with a stick-shift?
• Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
• If I get down, and do not break my limbs,
• I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:
• As good to die and go, as die and stay.
• And if the boy have not a woman's gift
• To rain a shower of commanded tears,
• An onion will do well for such a shift
• Reduced to pitiable shifts.
• I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.
• Little souls on little shifts rely.
• But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
• The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
• We'll have to shift these boxes to the downtown office.
• She shifted slightly in her seat.
• His political stance shifted daily.
• 'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].
• As it were to ride day and night; and[...]not to have patience to shift me.
• I crested the hill and shifted into fifth.
• Shifting 1001 to the left yields 10010; shifting it right yields 100.
• How can I shift a grass stain?
• If you shift, you might make the 2:19.
• Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can.
• All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift, than to resolve by their distinctions.