In that moment, as I mentally adjusted my pronunciation, I became aware that freshly picked nuts - pecans, walnuts, almonds and others - are a wonderful delicacy.

Not all of a ship's antennae are used at once, so the spouts could be adjusted continuously to obtain the types needed at a given moment.

I have adjusted myself so well to his monologues that without interrupting my own reveries I make whatever comment is required automatically, the moment I hear his voice die out.