Increasing

Examples

• He has many friends, and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But there are, and the demand is steadily increasing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It could only be imputed to increasing attachment. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Brotherhood through sorrow, sorrow for common sufferings and for irreparable mutual injuries, is spreading and increasing throughout the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have thought it over, and have decided on increasing the dose. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• By increasing the number of cylinders the product was rapidly added to, each cylinder printing on one side 2,000 sheets per hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The girl, standing pale and rigid against the farther wall, sought with ever-increasing terror for some loophole of escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• To what extent the motion-picture business may grow in the not remote future it is impossible to conjecture, for it has taken a place in the front rank of rapidly increasing enterprises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was never ostracized--his prestige with the quieter citizens saved him from that; but he was attacked with increasing boldness and steadfastness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Firms having mailing lists were increasing them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And day by day his strength was increasing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It grew smarter with the increasing height of the bucket, and presently a hundred and fifty feet of rope had been pulled in. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• This interest was increased materially with the growth of mail-order businesses and the constantly increasing use of direct-by-mail advertising by business concerns, large and small. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Some other method of increasing the production without lowering the quality of the printed sheet must be resorted to--and this is duplication. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• While thus lessening the cost of time-keepers their value has been enhanced by increasing their accuracy and durability. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These consisted in increasing the fines, and, in some cases, substituting death for fines. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The crowd kept increasing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• 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.
• Carry had been a good friend to her in difficult days, and perhaps only a friendship like Gerty's could be proof against such an increasing strain. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Amelia thinks, and thinks, and racks her brain, to find some means of increasing the small pittance upon which the household is starving. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The increasing facilities of communication enhanced this tendency and depleted Dublin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Seeing the need for some means of increasing the demand for honey, a small honey business was started to dispose of the product of customers who had no market. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I presently asked, with increasing diffidence. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The buffing will hit the high spots but the proper process turns the minute edges, closes the pores and makes the silver hard and compact, vastly increasing the wearing quality. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The clock struck ten, increasing her impatience. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The remainder may be no more than sufficient to supply the increasing demand of all thriving countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Miss Bart received this with increasing amusement. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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