Emerging

Examples

• You see I am only just emerging from my lowly station. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Miss Keeldar was just emerging from her flowery refuge when Mr. Helstone entered the garden and met her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We descended from Parnassus, emerging from its many folds, and passed through Livadia on our road to Attica. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I think I hear it cry with an articulate voice; I call you up from the cabin; I show you an image, fair as alabaster, emerging from the dim wave. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Missus'--roared the man with the red head, emerging from the garden, and looking very hard at the horse--'missus! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• What was the stupefaction of the friendly movers when this object at last emerging, proved to be a much-dilapidated dark lantern! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Our world to-day seems to be emerging with fluctuations from a prolonged phase of adversity and extreme conditions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He compared himself, as I went on, to a lost man emerging from the darkness into the light. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• On their being descried emerging from the gates of the Bower, the neighbourhood turned out at door and window to salute the Boffins. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The old routines and the old taboos are breaking up anyway, social forces are emerging which seek autonomy and struggle against slavery to non-human purposes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• On emerging from the glass, the light is refracted away from the perpendicular and takes the direction _CD_, which is clearly parallel to its original direction. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He took it and seeing to whom it was addressed turned and handed it to Torith who was emerging from his office to learn the cause of the commotion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I do, he assured her, emerging from the cupboard with the sought-for cake. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• As they spoke they were leaving the little street and emerging on the wooded landscape by the river. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Slowly the lioness was emerging from the window. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Editor: Theresa