Becoming

Examples

• This latter task was becoming more and more difficult, for the blacks had taken to hiding their supply away at night in granaries and living huts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The tension of patriotic and republican France was now becoming intolerable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This is not becoming in a sensible dog; anybody would think you were a silly young gentleman. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was evident to me that he was becoming uneasy, and that his plans were not working out altogether as he had hoped. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The satellite was gone; and Mr Inspector, becoming once again the quiet Abbot of that Monastery, dipped his pen in his ink and resumed his books. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Laughing and chattering like the idiot I was fast becoming I fell upon his prostrate form my fingers feeling for his dead throat. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I saw then that there was scarcely a chance of this ever becoming a practicable route for moving troops through an enemy's country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The addition of the salicylic acid delays secondary fermentation in stock and export beers, which may then be kept for any length of time without becoming unsound or of unpleasant flavor. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• But now my boasted independence was daily instigating me to acts of tyranny, and freedom was becoming licentiousness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But Miss Bertram thought it most becoming to reply-- The avenue! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• One of Lydgate's gifts was a voice habitually deep and sonorous, yet capable of becoming very low and gentle at the right moment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Forgive my enthusiasm; I am becoming excited; but when I see her trampled underfoot, I am angry at the authors of her disgrace. Plato. The Republic.
• Again her name was syllabled, and she shuddered as she asked herself, am I becoming mad, or am I dying, that I hear the voices of the departed? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Nothing could be more becoming to your complexion than that ruffian's rouge. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And thus matters went on until the early part of the present decade, when the factory facilities were becoming so rapidly outgrown as to render radical changes necessary. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You are becoming her advocate, said he. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Three antagonistic growths had to be kept alive: his mother's trust in him, his plan for becoming a teacher, and Eustacia's happiness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You will not be the cause of my becoming worse. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I thought it my duty to protest against Lady Glyde's unfavourable opinion of his lordship, and I did so, with becoming forbearance and respect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A proposal which, as you correctly informed me at the time, he had the becoming taste and perception, observes Sir Leicester, to decline. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This is becoming grim, Mortimer,' said Eugene, in a low voice. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As to Tom, he was becoming that not unprecedented triumph of calculation which is usually at work on number one. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I begged Sergeant's Cuff's pardon, but I am afraid I did it with watery eyes, and not in a very becoming way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We have seen in an earlier chapter that geometry developed as a sci ence is becoming gradually weaned from the art of surveying. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated poor white trash. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A new philosophical basis is becoming increasingly necessary to socialism--one that may not be truer than the old materialism but that shall simply be more useful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He would leave that forever behind him with the great hopes he had nursed there of finding his own race and becoming a man among men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Mrs. Hale lay back in an easy chair, with a soft white shawl wrapped around her, and a becoming cap put on, in expectation of the doctor's visit. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The Sergeant received the key with a becoming apology. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The ice was receding, vegetation was increasing, big game of all sorts was becoming more abundant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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