Extemporizing [verb]

The small jelly-speck, which we call the amœba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.

If you extemporize you can get much closer to your audience.

I have known but one other person besides Hook, who could extemporize in English; and he wanted the confidence to do it in public.

Yet another use, on which much ingenuity was expended in the 18th century, is to extemporize retrenchments.

My saddle, a hunting one, could not be kept in place, and we had to extemporize a breast-plate with string.

The first thing to do is to extemporize some splints, and of course we shall want some stuff for bandages.

The young musician was irresistible when he seated himself at the piano to extemporize.

In political life it was his special glory to extemporize statesmanship without sacrificing pleasure.

And we had to extemporize such quarters as best we could, while staying at Middletown.

He used nearly to kill me with his extemporizations, for he has no memory, and so he always had to extemporize.