Their keenly interested eyes and ears are ever on the watch for opportunities, for improvements, for new openings; and having to consult nothing but their own judgment, they are much quicker in Adapting themselves to situations and taking advantage of turns of trade.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The factories will turn out the coverings for us, but I can see that your teacher means the Adapting of a dress to the style of the wearer.
"Ethel Morton at Chautauqua"
Mabell S. C. Smith
Nobody, he told himself, could be a better little housekeeper than Helena, no little home more fresh and dainty than their own: but though she never worried him, cleverly Adapting their ways to a variable income, he was always faced by the uncomfortable thought: "If this book fails-" or "unless I write some short stories-" and after a while these things begin to tell.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke