Citations:adopted


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs — a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * And this is the Bibliographical system here adopted; and it is the only one that can possibly succeed, for it alone is practicable.
 * A few years ago this same plan was adopted by the Bay whalemen of New Zealand, who, upon descrying the game, gave notice to the ready-manned boats nigh the beach.