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In literature, the word "changed" serves as a versatile indicator of transformation, spanning physical movement, emotional shifts, and even alterations in tone or textual form. Authors use it to mark a relocation or modification in environment, as in the repositioning of tradesmen in old London [1] or the transition of weather from rain to snow [2]. It also conveys internal transformations—a character's sudden reversal of decision [3, 4, 5], a shift in mood or expression [6, 7, 8], or a deeper change in character as seen in metamorphoses of personality [9, 10]. In other cases, "changed" reflects the stability or continuity of nature and text, whether highlighting moments of constancy amid alterations [11, 12] or noting the careful correction of language in a manuscript [13, 14]. Thus, from the literal to the metaphorical, "changed" encapsulates how both external circumstances and inner selves are in constant flux.
  1. Men of trades and sellers of wares in this city have oftentimes since changed their places, as they have found their best advantage.
    — from The Survey of London by John Stow
  2. It was just about sundown, and it was turning cold—the rain had changed to snow, and the slush was freezing.
    — from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  3. A WEDDING GIFT For a long time Jacques Bourdillere had sworn that he would never marry, but he suddenly changed his mind.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  4. I dug another quarter out of my pocket, then changed my mind.
    — from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
  5. I used to say I did not like arithmetic very well, but now I have changed my mind.
    — from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  6. He spoke again after a little while, but the tone was rather changed: there was tenderness mingled with the previous self-reproach.
    — from Silas Marner by George Eliot
  7. "O cruel heart," she changed her tone, "And cruel love, whose end is scorn, Is this the end to be left alone, To live forgotten, and die forlorn!"
    — from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
  8. To her surprise the surly old weather-beaten face actually changed its expression.
    — from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  9. After Helen's death he was a changed creature; no longer a wild boy, but a man.
    — from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott
  10. Their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, but only changed character.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  11. Nothing was changed.
    — from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  12. Some things had not changed.
    — from The Marching Morons by C. M. Kornbluth
  13. Footnote #29: "fiction, imitiating him" changed to "fiction, imitating him".
    — from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana
  14. , “Voronica” changed to “Veronica” ( Veronica.
    — from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper

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