It was on account of a scene-shifter I was runnin' with along about the time I met your pa.
"Calvary Alley"
Alice Hegan Rice
And the scene-shifter bethought himself and let down the curtain.
"Northern Lights"
Gilbert Parker
Another important piece of machinery is the track-shifter, which picks up and relays the railway lines of the ever-shifting spoil-tracks.
"The Panama Canal and its Makers"
Vaughan Cornish