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Sentences starting with gradually

Gradually the people who came here ostensibly for religious exercises made a longer and more permanent occupation, and, without losing its ephemeral character, the place grew and demanded more substantial accommodations. [4]
Gradually I learned what had reached their ears. [10]
Gradually his voice was coming back to him, so that he could hold some conversation, as was before mentioned, with those about him. [6]
Gradually there settled upon him a stoic acceptance of the conditions. [11]
Gradually she began to realize, however, that her resentment of the lack of confidence of her husband was by no means the only cause of the feeling that took possession of and overwhelmed her. [9]
Gradually Hodder began to realize something of their numbers. [9]
Gradually I came to know that my grandmother--dead so long ago that I laughed at the idea--was in the room. [4]
Gradually it came to him that the distinction was not one he saw, but one he felt. [13]
Gradually the flood tide of emotion began to ebb, and the confusion of loving exclamations and incoherent words gained some order and separated into question and answer. [10]
Gradually but surely, that tiresome old anecdote has sapped my strength, undermined my constitution, withered my life. [5]

Sentences ending with gradually

Can't this transformation, which you say is necessary and vital, come gradually? [9]
I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually. [7]
He stooped and passed under; the narrow way descended gradually. [5]
You would not know that Obedstown stood on the top of a mountain, for there was nothing about the landscape to indicate it--but it did: a mountain that stretched abroad over whole counties, and rose very gradually. [5]
That great work is mulling itself into shape gradually. [5]

Short sentences using gradually

But gradually her weeping ceased. [9]
Gradually he loses his mind. [4]
She will gradually control everything. [4]

Sentences containing gradually two or more times

I came here to St. John's full of hope and confidence, gradually to lose both, gradually to realise that there was something wrong with me, that in spite of all my efforts I was unable to make any headway in the right direction. [9]
Gradually the cool dim gray of the morning whitened, and as gradually sounds multiplied and life manifested itself. [5]

More example sentences with the word gradually in them

In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. [4]
By it none wounded in feeling, none injured in interest; even the drammaker and dram-seller will have glided into other occupations so gradually as never to have felt the change, and will stand ready to join all others in the universal song of gladness. [7]
Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet. [5]
And then I wondered if it was not the disagreeable habit of some night-patrol or other to beat round the garden before the Sire went to bed for good, to find just such characters as I was gradually getting to feel myself to be. [4]
Poor Washington gradually woke up to the fact that he too was an intellectual marvel as well as his gifted sister. [5]
He felt intoxicated with lofty, pure emotions, but suddenly checked his steps before the sutler's stand and pointed to the pastry gradually disappearing in a chest. [10]
The Semi-Homoeopathic practitioner will gradually withdraw from the rotten half of his business and try to make the public forget his connection with it. [3]
Here was a wide natural corridor overhung with stalactites, and it led on into an artificial passage which inclined gradually upwards till it came into a mound above the level by which they entered. [11]
And after a while the convulsive shudders that shook her gradually ceased. [9]
And these colleges, which you think above the colored people, will stimulate them and gradually raise the whole mass. [4]
These social qualities, which Miss Sally first discovered by accident, gradually made such an impression upon her, that she would entreat Mr Swiveller to relax as though she were not by, which Mr Swiveller, nothing loth, would readily consent to do. [12]
The beautiful image which had so bewitched me faded gradually from my imagination, and I returned to the still perplexing mysteries of my little neighbor's chamber. [6]
The moon, which, when I took possession of my new apartments, was invisible, gradually gained each evening upon the darkness of the night, and at length rolled in full splendor above the towers, pouring a flood of tempered light into every court and hall. [4]
My overcoat pockets were stuffed with German cigars and linen packages of American smoking tobacco, and a porter was following us around with this overcoat on his arm, and gradually getting it upside down. [5]
Well, while they were gradually playing out, it suddenly occurred to me to wonder what had become of Marco. [5]
Those around me were gradually finding out the circumstances which brought on the deadly attack to which I was subject. [6]
But his perceptions were as keen as Nelson Langmaid's, and like Langmaid, he had gradually become conscious of a certain baffling personality in the new rector of St. John's. [9]
We shall do well to ascertain the causes which have led us gradually to stray from the political principles laid down by our forefathers for all the world to see. [9]
The gradually increasing weight of the brain and skull in man must have influenced the development of the supporting spinal column, more especially whilst he was becoming erect. [1]
Once a cement water-pipe under ground at Stawell began to gradually reduce its output, and finally ceased altogether to deliver water. [5]
I halted; waited; watched; the conversation continued between the four men; it grew earnest; Backus drew gradually away; the gamblers followed, and kept at his elbow. [5]
As the afternoon wasted away, the lad, wearied with his troubles, sank gradually into a tranquil and healing slumber. [5]
Accustomed as Janet was to these frequent arraignments of her father's inefficiency, it was gradually borne in upon her now--despite a preoccupation with her own fate--that the affair thus plaintively voiced by her mother was in effect a family crisis of the first magnitude. [9]
That Mrs. Larrabbee was still another revelation, that she was not at rest, was gradually revealed to him as the days passed. [9]
So complete, now, was his forgetfulness of self, of his future, of the irrevocable consequences of the step he had taken, that it was only gradually he became aware that some one was standing near him, and with a start he recognized McCrae. [9]
But his mind was gradually recovering its balance, and he was able to hold some conversation with those about him. [6]
Gradually, as he was drawn more and more into the network of the relationships of this extraordinary man,--nay, as he inevitably became a part of that network,--a period of bewilderment ensued. [9]
As business freshened, wages climbed gradually up to two hundred and fifty dollars--the association figure--and became firmly fixed there; and still without benefiting a member of that body, for no member was hired. [5]
New diseases and vices have in some cases proved highly destructive; and it appears that a new disease often causes much death, until those who are most susceptible to its destructive influence are gradually weeded out (33. [1]
We followed a very good road through a broken, pleasant country, gradually growing wilder and less cultivated. [4]
Gradually, however, as Venters and Bess knelt low, holding the dogs, the beavers emerged to swim with logs and gnaw at cottonwoods and pat mud walls with their paddle-like tails, and, glossy and shiny in the sun, to go on with their strange, persistent industry. [13]
This gradually grew upon me, and presently led to trains of thought which became at first unwelcome, then worrying, and at last unendurable. [6]
He worked himself up slowly and gradually into a sort of frenzy, and got to thrashing around with his arms like the sails of a windmill. [5]
It was not until they had seen him gradually diminish into a mere speck upon the distant road, that they turned to each other, and ventured to laugh aloud. [12]
Nor did it understand that Carmen was the more venturesome gambler of the two, and that gradually, for the success of promising schemes, she had thrown one thing after another into the common speculation, until practically all the property stood in Mavick's name. [4]
The storm subsided toward daybreak, and I dozed gradually to sleep with a sense of obligation to Lem Hackett for going to eternal suffering in that abrupt way, and thus preventing a far more dreadful disaster--my own loss. [5]
She was almost too far gone to be resuscitated, but Clement put his mouth to hers and kept her breathing until her own breath returned and she gradually came to. [6]
They went out to sup together in the German style; and gradually, over his beer, Tiefel forgot his sorrow. [9]
They turned aside to skirt this wall, and gradually ascended until their way was barred by a "maze of gigantic snow crevices,"--so they turned aside again, and "began a long climb of sufficient steepness to make a zigzag course necessary. [5]
He asked permission to inquire of the learned counsel for the defence by what authority he declared that the State could not afford to enter into a policy by which grade crossings would gradually be eliminated. [9]
They were more to him than he had ever known; they were parts of himself which had slowly developed, as the features and characteristics of ancestors gradually emerge and are emphasized in a descendant as his years increase. [11]
Natasha's grief began to be overlaid by the impressions of daily life, it ceased to press so painfully on her heart, it gradually faded into the past, and she began to recover physically. [2]
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe; but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die. [5]
I fancy at times that I see something of that starry light which I noticed in the young man's eyes gradually kindling in hers. [6]
Gradually, as the time wore along, one annoying fact was borne in upon my understanding--that we were weather-bound. [5]
It took some time to break the ice, but gradually she began to say things, half stories, half poetic, not out of books; things that, if said with assurance, in the city would be called wit. [4]
Gradually, however, as time passed, it began to enlarge, to creep down the slope, to encroach upon the intervening distance. [13]
In this way those articles of the Materia Medica which had nothing but loathsomeness to recommend them have been gradually dropped, and are not like to obtain any general favor again with civilized communities. [3]
But what was this feeling that gradually crept over him? [9]
Just as before, they never mentioned him so as not to lower (as they thought) their exalted feelings by words; but this silence about him had the effect of making them gradually begin to forget him without being conscious of it. [2]
Gradually, unnoticed, all these persons began to disappear and a single question, that of the closed door, superseded all else. [2]
As he stood there under the winter moon, he gradually became conscious of music, of an air that seemed the very expression of his mood. [9]
Its characters shaped themselves gradually as the manuscript grew under my hand. [6]
But Cynthia watched them, as was her duty, and gradually absorbed many things which are useful if not essential--outward observances of which the world takes cognizance, and which she had been sent there by Uncle Jethro to learn. [9]
But gradually as the street lights burned brighter and familiar sights began to appear, she grew more controlled and became capable of reflection. [9]
Gradually, charmed like the simple people about him, Stephen became lost in the fascination of the scene. [9]
My experience in the service of one of the most prominent of New York lawyers stood me in good stead, and gradually, in addition to a heterogeneous business of mines and lumber, I began to pick up a few clients. [9]
In one of the pauses of their discourse, and when half the night had worn away, the single gentleman, who had gradually become more and more silent and thoughtful, turned to his companion and said abruptly: 'Are you a good listener? [12]
Many stories of the now all-powerful Jethro William heard from the little coterie which made their headquarters in his store--stories of how those methods of which we have read were gradually spread over other towns and other counties. [9]
From the house-porch the grounds sloped gradually down to the lower fence and rose on the right to the high ground where my small work-den stood. [5]
Victoria stood before the fire listening to the sound of the wheels gradually growing fainter, and her mind refused to work. [9]
The fact that the day was lost was evidently brought home to those below, for the strife subsided gradually, and finally ceased altogether. [9]
The character of the colonists was also gradually improving. [4]
Gradually, out of the chaotic melee in which these titans were engaged had emerged one group more powerful than the rest and more respectable, whose leader was the Personality to whom I have before referred. [9]
A little of the bone was left, and I gradually revived. [7]
Why was it that, to Hodder, he should gradually have assumed something of the aspect of a Cerberus? [9]
I further say that, as the war progresses, it appears to me, opinion and action, which were in great confusion at first, take shape and fall into more regular channels, so that the necessity for strong dealing with them gradually decreases. [7]
We only know that whereas they did not whistle with approval, now they do; the prejudice of generations gradually melts away. [4]
Gradually the realization that they were rich sank securely home into the souls of the pair, then they began to place the money. [5]
Soon I noticed that the "Sweet By and By" was gradually fading out; next it ceased altogether, and there was an ominous stillness. [5]
And gradually, castaway that she felt herself to be, she had adorned it lovingly, as one above whose horizon the sails of hope were not to rise; filled it with friends not chosen in a day, whose faithful ministrations were not to cease. [9]
That will gradually tend to work itself out as we become more sensible and better educated, and understand more clearly what is good for us. [9]
Not that I surrendered at once, but the reservations of which I was conscious at the first gradually disappeared--or rather I ignored them. [9]
Gradually, irksomely, but surely and steadily, it developed, and at last it took definite form as a pretty successful wink. [5]
Instead of coming straight towards me, he took a large circle, swimming rapidly, and gradually contracting his orbit. [4]
From where he stood he could not see Hannah's face, but gradually his eyes were drawn to her figure. [9]
Gradually, as she stood gazing, she became aware of a beating of feet upon the snow; over her shoulder she caught the gleam of steel. [9]
A pale glow stole over the Thing; gradually its cloudy folds took shape--an arm appeared, then legs, then a body, and last a great sad face looked out of the vapor. [5]
For a certain stipulated sum best known to Wilkinson and Miro, General Wilkinson agrees gradually to detach Kentucky from the Union and join it to his Catholic Majesty's dominion of Louisiana. [9]
There were no speeches, there was but little talk, there were no frivolities; the Council filled themselves gradually, steadily, but surely, with beer, and conducted themselves with sedate decorum, as became men of position, men of influence, men of manure. [5]
The number of spectators had gradually swelled from fifty to sixty and to eighty thousand; and no less than thirty-six chariots were waiting behind the carceres ready to start. [10]
He did not speak, for his was a rare intuition; and gradually her hand ceased to tremble, and the uncontrollable sobs that shook her became less frequent. [9]
You take a spadeful of earth from the hill-side and put it in a large tin pan and dissolve and wash it gradually away till nothing is left but a teaspoonful of fine sediment. [5]
They had, for some time, been gradually approaching the place for which they were bound. [12]
Gradually, to these soldier-thinkers, as well as to the mass of others at home, is unfolding the vision of a new social order which is indeed worth fighting for and dying for. [9]
So I rose softly, and gradually got on everything--down to one sock. [5]
They had been so for generations, and it was only gradually that the Cambridge Saturnalia were replaced by the decencies and solemnities of the present sober anniversary. [6]
The snow gradually sneaks away in liquid repentance. [4]
Gradually, like the smoke that settled down on our city until we lived in darkness at midday, the horror of what Bitter had told me began to pervade my mind, until I was in a state of terror. [9]
The path gradually sloped upwards and at last she ascended, by a spiral staircase, to the ground-floor of the temple. [10]
Gradually the water shoaled up, and then began to deepen again! [5]
On the whole, she questioned inwardly whether it might not be some subtle pleasantry, and smiled, experimentally, with a note of interrogation in the smile, but, finding no encouragement, allowed her features to subside gradually as if nothing had happened. [6]
But when the shadows of night closed them in, they gradually ceased to talk, and sat gazing into the fire, with their minds evidently wandering elsewhere. [5]
This is the seventh time Judge Douglas and myself have met in these joint discussions, and he has been gradually improving in regard to his war with the Administration. [7]
But the good sense and patriotic instincts of the plain people gradually marshalled themselves on Lincoln's side, and he lost no opportunity to help on this process by personal argument and admonition. [7]
In a senseless self-denial I should gradually have, withered into a meaningless old maid, with no opinions of my own, and no more definite purpose in life than to write checks for charities. [9]
Mr. Cooke being seen only on rare and fleeting occasions, there gradually got abroad a most curious misconception of that gentleman's character, while over his personality floated a mist of legend which the Celebrity took good care not to dispel. [9]
Our young Doctor seems to me to be gradually getting known in the neighborhood and beyond it. [6]
I mean to say that a genuine poem is capable of absorbing an indefinite amount of the essence of our own humanity,--its tenderness, its heroism, its regrets, its aspirations, so as to be gradually stained through with a divine secondary color derived from ourselves. [6]
A light breeze rose, and gradually the tops of the rushes began to shine, and the leafage before, beside, and above her to glitter in the silvery light. [10]

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