Deepening

Examples

• The shadows were deepening, darkness was settling in. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• From the close of 1915 onwards Russia was a source of deepening anxiety to her Western allies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I felt compassion for him,' said Louisa, her colour deepening, 'and I wished to know what he was going to do, and wished to offer him assistance. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And there was not only the actual debt; there was the certainty that in his present position he must go on deepening it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• But it is better than he expected after all, being no explosion of the mine below him or deepening of the pit into which he has fallen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Later this was remedied, by deepening the channel and increasing the number of vessels suitable to its navigation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For all deepening of our knowledge gives a greater sense of common likeness and individual variation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But let them all be represented in one room by men who are professionally interested in their constituency's prejudices and what would you accomplish but a deepening of the cleavages? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She continued to look at him with a deepening bewilderment: her only clear impression resolved itself into a scared sense of his power. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The glare from the jeweller's window, deepening the pallour of her face, gave to its delicate lines the sharpness of a tragic mask. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• With the set sun and the deepening twilight the park became nearly empty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And also he strengthened his phalanx by giving the rear men longer spears than had been used hitherto, and so deepening its mass. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Rosa in the deepening gloom looks down upon the ground, half frightened and half shy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Watching it, she saw a gathering and deepening anxiety there, which caused her great disquiet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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