When she had become aware that he desired to marry Jane Oglander, a fact of which she had possessed herself by asking him the direct question, and receiving an equally direct answer, she had at once decided that he was not nearly good enough for the lady on whom he had fixed his affection, and time had in no sense modified her first view.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The race has been steadily modified, generation after generation, in its more vivid characteristics, by the progressive force of civilization.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
It will be seen, in the later Poem, how a comparison with the gloomy yew has been modified.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty