Gaining

Examples

• He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• No one could remember it without gaining faith in the mystery, without the soul's warming with new, deep life-truSt. And Gerald! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• What thinkst thou of gaining fair lands and livings, by wedding a Saxon, after the fashion of the followers of the Conqueror? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The commercial motorcycle is said to be gaining widespread favor, and therein lies its greatest future. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Will not this be worth gaining? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It is not a question of gaining a social advantage by a s mattering of foreign languages. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I asked him a few questions--but not with a view of gaining any particular information--all of which he answered, and I rode off. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A watchman was crying half-past nine, down a dark passage through which she had to pass, in gaining the main thoroughfare. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The vain hopes of gaining some of the great prizes is the sole cause of this demand. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• For the balance of the day and all the following night we raced across that ochre wilderness with the pursuers at our back ever gaining upon us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• That's my mind, said the good lady, breaking suddenly out with a tide of zeal that had been gaining strength in her mind all the morning. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• This time he succeeded in gaining a position immediately in the enemy's front, where he intrenched. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The course of action is not intrinsically satisfying; it is a mere means for avoiding some penalty, or for gaining some reward at its conclusion. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I was not granting time for composure to her only, I was gaining time also for myself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She looked disappointed, but gently resolved on gaining her point. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Caroline, beginning in a low, rather tremulous voice, but gaining courage as she proceeded, repeated the sweet verses of Chénier. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Then they had symbolized what she was gaining, now they stood for what she was giving up. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• If it is, then the taboo enforced by a Morals Police is, perhaps, as good a way as any of gaining a fictitious sense of activity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Slowly her features relaxed, and her eyes looked at me with their expression gaining in curiosity what it was fast losing in fear. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The gaining of this object depended, of course, on his still continuing exactly to repeat his proceedings of last year. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I did not, however, aim at gaining his favour by paying any servile respect to him, but after some time took this other method. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There was one comfort; her lie had saved him, if only by gaining some additional time. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I felt, too, that the trial God had appointed me was gaining its climax, and must now be turned by my own hands, hot, feeble, trembling as they were. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Nothing ever passed through his hands without receiving improvement, and no person ever went into his company without gaining wisdom. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• On turning the corner of the house, and gaining a view of the garden, I was startled by seeing a stranger walking in it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And yet I hate to think of this old scandal gaining a new lease of life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This would cut the Confederacy in two again, as our gaining possession of the Mississippi River had done before. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mr. Losberne, who appeared desirous of gaining time, recounted them at great length, and with much circumlocution. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Well, well, said the old clerk; we all have our various ways of gaining a livelihood. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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