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American trade with Europe was carried on through English merchants very much as the Navigation Acts had prescribed. * C. R. Fish, "American Diplomacy," pp. 56-57. From the very first settlement of the American continent the colonists had exhibited one of the earliest and most lasting characteristics of the American people adaptability.
So they were presently on the hillside behind the ranch house with the rifles, Seth's Winchester and the little Savage he had bought for Claire, who, to his great disappointment, did not like guns, and never could be taught to see the sights with one eye closed. His delight, therefore, was unbounded when Marion took to the Savage with almost the quick adaptability of a man.
As we ambled our way agreeably out of Bath, Paddy and I employed ourselves in worthy speech. He was not yet a notable horseman, but his Irish adaptability was so great that he was already able to think he would not fall off so long as the horse was old and tired. "Paddy," said I, "how would you like to be an Englishman? Look at their cities. Sure, Skibbereen is a mud-pond to them.
"All right, those examples demonstrate the intelligence, adaptability, and problem-solving but surely such qualities are not as rare as the low number of Rangers indicates!" "In themselves, no," Kainor admitted. "But those are only the most obvious of the qualifications. Another is that they must have no close personal ties, including family; that eliminates many possible candidates.
This quick adaptability is the great gift of the city child, his one reward for the hurried changing life which he has always led. The working girl has a distinct advantage in the task of transforming her whole family into the ways and connections of the prosperous when she works down town and becomes conversant with the manners and conditions of a cosmopolitan community.
Yet with her ready adaptability and her strong good sense, she saw that if she was to be a success in this new field she had chosen, she must be ready for any emergency.
The third night he slept undisturbed in the lap of frenzy and madness. There was something at once pathetic and sublime in his adaptability to the broken suits of fortune. He was learning what every man learns sooner or later to play the hand that is dealt, even in the face of a losing game.
Making suggestions to the Emperor, giving orders to a battle cruiser's captain, and now telling a Ranger a fellow Ranger, she reminded herself there was a thing he could not do. Medart sensed her feelings and smiled to himself. Yeah, she had the adaptability, all right.
It is not the contemplation of their nobler qualities, but their weaknesses, that puts us on easy terms with our fellow-men. Breakfast promised to last a long time. Gaffney, with the adaptability of the trooper of years of service on the frontier, had been worming something of their visitors' story out of them. The average Indian never wants to tell his name, but gets a friend to give it for him.
Pope's high-bred and gentlemanly manner, combined with his extraordinary sensibility and dread of ridicule, would have modified Thackeray's usual gigantic fun and sometimes boisterous sarcasm into a rich and strange adaptability to his little guest.
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