Accumulating

Examples

• Six weeks after he arrived he began his first course of lectures, taking for his subject the history of galvanism, and the various methods of accumulating galvanic influence. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Her father was heir-at-law to a great estate that had long lain unknown of, unclaimed, and accumulating. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Stocks which had been accumulating for years now went off in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Along its own line this species of men was accumulating a dim tradition, and working out its limited possibilities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He began with the history of Galvanism, de tailed the successive discoveries, and described the different methods of accumulating influence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The eighteenth century was a century of accumulating grievance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Shells and bones decay and disappear when left on the bottom of the sea, where sediment is not accumulating. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Also, I said, the State, if once started well, moves with accumulating force like a wheel. Plato. The Republic.
• During the first century there was an air of quiescence over the great plains, but population was accumulating and the tribes were fermenting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But Neolithic man in the lands of his origin in Asia and Africa even more than in Europe was already counting his accumulating possessions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He has sustained many losses of late; and these obligations accumulating upon him at once, would crush him to the earth. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A large cabinet contains awards, decorations, and medals presented to Edison, accumulating in the course of a long career, some of which may be seen in the illustration opposite. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Herbert probably would have been scratching his head in a most rueful manner at the sight of his accumulating figures. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Our material is rapidly accumulating, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The pirates of Messina appealed to Rome, and the accumulating jealousy and fear of Carthage decided the Roman people to help them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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