Your 'great world,' Judge Barton, means a continual drain upon one's tact and patience, a continual smoothing over of difficulties, of forcing oneself to adapt oneself to people with whom one has no real sympathy.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
I desired on this trip not only to test my tent, but to learn more of the native arts of the Eskimo, knowing that I, on my Polar trip, must, if I would be successful, adapt myself to just such methods of living.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Man, under pressure of circumstances, will adapt himself to most conditions of life.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook