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Sentences starting with gradual

Gradual indeed had been the ascent from the sweeping out of a store to the marrying of a Preston, but none the less sure inevitable. [9]

Sentences ending with gradual

We crept in under Jim's bed and into the cabin, and pawed around and found the candle and lit it, and stood over Jim awhile, and found him looking hearty and healthy, and then we woke him up gentle and gradual. [5]
The deterioration was gradual. [4]

Sentences containing gradual two or more times

It was a gradual change; so gradual that its beginnings were hardly noticed; maybe were not noticed at all, except by Jack Halliday, who always noticed everything; and always made fun of it, too, no matter what it was. [5]

More example sentences with the word gradual in them

Continue to develop your character in the same gradual inconspicuous and apparently unconscious way. [5]
If the patient were brought into a warm room, heat would be applied very rapidly, were not something interposed to prevent this, and allow its gradual admission. [3]
His convalescence was very slow and gradual, but no further accident interrupted its even progress. [6]
They fought as valiantly as they could for the system of gradual emancipation which you pretend you would be glad to see succeed. [7]
Now, what's the use of using the words that belonged with the thumb-screws, and the Blessed Virgin with the knives under her petticoats and sleeves and bodice, and the dry pan and gradual fire, if we can't have the things themselves, Sir? [6]
By gradual and unexplained degrees, the constitution of the State has been changed until there are only twenty senators. [9]
In short, he undergoes a process of gentle and gradual starvation. [6]
The New York Tribune was for it, and understood it to mean that we must accept gradual emancipation according to the plan suggested, or get something worse. [7]
It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted; but for their tardiness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. [7]
It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted, but for their tardiness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South. [7]
How was he to explain that these degrees had been so gradual that his conscience had had but a passing wrench here and there? [9]
No doubt in time he would prefer it; but he wished the process might be modified and made just a little more gradual, and not quite so pronounced and violent. [5]
The flame touched the sticks at last, took gradual hold upon them--hesitated--took a stronger hold --hesitated again--held its breath five heart-breaking seconds, then gave a sort of human gasp and went out. [5]
Farther on, up the gradual slope, rose a broken wall, a huge monument, looming dark purple and stretching its solitary, mystic way, a wavering line that faded in the north. [13]
It was a terrible shock to us who had vainly hoped to keep him a few years longer, but at least he was spared what he had dreaded with a great dread, a gradual failure of mental or bodily power. [6]
She had honestly sought, before the war, to come to terms with Germany, and had even proposed gradual disarmament. [9]
The road had some great curves in it, but their gradual sweep was such that they were no mar to history. [5]
He did not see Lassiter, but his glance, drawn irresistibly farther out on the gradual slope, caught sight of a moving cloud of dust. [13]
He began by referring to the hope with which he had come to St. John's, and the gradual realization that the church was a failure--a dismal failure when compared to the high ideal of her Master. [9]
Many observers are puzzled by the gradual and insidious return recently to the mode of the Directoire, and can see in it no significance other than weariness of some other mode. [4]
A series of photographs taken in different years shows its gradual transformation since the time when the old projecting angular sign-board told all who approached "The immortal Shakespeare was born in this House. [6]
Show me any other place where every other drawing-room is not a chamber of the Inquisition, with papas and mammas for inquisitors,--and the cold shoulder, instead of the "dry pan and the gradual fire," the punishment of "heresy"! [6]
Thus she writes on March 24th;-- "Anne's decline is gradual and fluctuating; but its nature is not doubtful. [14]
And the habit of years--the religious passion of her life--leaped from lethargy, and the long months of gradual drifting to doubt were as if they had never been. [13]
The gradual narrowing of the wall from the base upward is accurately preserved. [5]
The half-art, half-instinct of language still bears the stamp of its gradual evolution. [1]
It was twelve o'clock noon, and a breezy, cloudless day; the ascent was gradual, and the glimpses, from under the curtaining boughs, of blue water, and tiny sailboats, and beetling cliffs, were as charming as glimpses of dreamland. [5]
Still, we do not propose to do that, unless it should be in terms which I don't suppose the nation is very likely soon to agree to,--the terms of making the emancipation gradual, and compensating the unwilling owners. [7]
Nothing, indeed, is more pitiable than the gradual drifting apart of people who have been dear to each other--a severance produced by change of views and of principle, and the substitution of indifference for sympathy. [4]
Between the old man and herself there had come a gradual separation, harder to bear than any former sorrow. [12]
We are gathering, it is true, a small party who are for gradual emancipation. [9]
These gradual insinuations into his revery at length made him turn. [9]
Those who believe in the principle of gradual evolution, will not readily admit that the sense of smell in its present state was originally acquired by man, as he now exists. [1]
Through those generations, however, there was a gradual disuse of this power, following upon a failing recognition of its possession. [5]
Leftward, from the hollow that lay at his feet, mounted a gradual slow-swelling slope to a great height topped by leaning, cracked, and ruined crags. [13]
For a while he lay as one benumbed, and the gradual realization that ensued might be likened to the straining of stiffened wounds. [9]
The variations may have been gradual, or somewhat abrupt as in the case recently given of the humming-birds near Bogota, in which certain individuals alone have the "central tail-feathers tipped with beautiful green. [1]
The sentiments which had made his former visit there so enjoyable, and filled him with such enthusiasm, had undergone a gradual change, and they had rotted away to such a degree that he couldn't contemplate another visit there with anything strongly resembling delight. [5]
Frank Blair and Gratz Brown tried to get up a system of gradual emancipation in Missouri, had an election in August, and got beat, and you, Mr. Democrat, threw up your hat, and hallooed "Hurrah for Democracy! [7]
The slope was gradual, the space narrow, the course straight for many rods. [13]
The change was gradual, an' I took no notice of it. [13]
The descent was gradual, along a stone-walled trail, and Venters felt sure that this was the place where Oldring drove cattle into the Pass. [13]
It is the gradual substitution of cant or flash terms for words which truly characterize their objects. [6]
Her death had followed a long period of gradual decline. [5]
But if gradual emancipation and deportation be adopted, they will have neither to flee from. [7]
We were soon dressed and out of the house, watching the gradual approach of dawn, thoroughly absorbed in the first near view of the Oberland giants, which broke upon us unexpectedly after the intense obscurity of the evening before. [5]
The formation of different languages and of distinct species, and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. [1]
Dominant languages and dialects spread widely, and lead to the gradual extinction of other tongues. [1]
The light was coming slowly, the change, the rebirth of the Church by gradual evolution. [9]
I say "initiation" because, in my judgment, gradual and not sudden emancipation is better for all. [7]
The very earliest, and one of the latest, public efforts of his life, separated by a period of more than fifty years, were both made in favor of gradual emancipation. [7]
Emerson got wet and chilled, and it seems too probable that the shock hastened that gradual loss of memory which came over his declining years. [6]
The day had almost passed when she would measure all men against Leicester in his favour; and he, knowing this clearly now, saw with haughty anxiety the gradual passing of his power, and clutched futilely at the vanishing substance. [11]
It was like a long, smooth, narrow street, with a gradual descending grade, and shut in by enormous perpendicular walls of coarse conglomerate, four hundred feet high in many places, and turreted like mediaeval castles. [5]
It has been a long and gradual process to thoroughly republicanize the American Protestant descendant of the ancient priesthood. [6]
Before him ascended a gradual swell of smooth stone. [13]
Mr. Hopper, by a gradual process, had taken upon his own shoulders, and consequently off the Colonel's, responsibility after responsibility. [9]

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