Steps which will determine their whole subsequent life must be taken or declined; and for the determining of such alterations in the place or mode of their life there is often felt great need of a guidance which can be entirely relied upon.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Acton, however, was by no means a fastidious person, and when he had fitted her with a little saloon, and made a few primitive alterations below, he said she was quite good enough for him.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Even in the earlier editions of the "Origin of Species," where the "alterations" in the passage last quoted are called "accidental" in express terms, the word does not fall, so to speak, on a strong beat of the bar, and is apt to pass unnoticed.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler