Gradually, I became aware of a faint, distant whining.

The gentleman at whose house he met me at Nottingham, and who was ashamed of him, subsequently became his servant, and touched his hat to him; and John has pulled up at my own door in his carriage, with a liveried servant, when I lived near to him in London.

At sight of the tall, elegant figure of the President, the troops broke into the peculiar shrill cheer that afterward became a sound of wonder, almost terror, to unaccustomed Northern ears.

The sweet girl journalists with whom she was thrown in contact were so different from any young women she had heretofore known, and proved so kindly sympathetic, that Hetty speedily became ashamed of her wasted life and formed a brave resolution to merit the friendship so generously extended her.

A miller had to be produced, and the children, now his assistants, ground the wheat, and Mr. Bird came in his cart to fetch the sacks of flour, which ultimately became the Birds' Christmas pudding and was eaten by the labourers, now guests at the feast.

"He cares not how he loiters by the way; he is always ready to beguile his reader with a Milesian storyone of those quaint and witty interludes which have travelled the world over and become part, not merely of every literature, but of every life."

It would doubtless by this time have become a subject of gossip and speculation in the household and consequently would very soon become public.

Henceforth he became quite a different man: he no longer gave way to the people, and ceased to watch the breath of popular favor; but he changed the loose and licentious democracy which had hitherto existed, into a stricter aristocratic, or rather monarchical, form of government.

Such children will inevitably become intellectually independent and morally self-controlled.

Thus, in July, 878, the foundations of the new kingdom of England were laid, for new it undoubtedly became when the treaty of Wedmore was signed.

But long ere this Euprepia, dissolved in tears, her bosom torn by convulsive sobs, had become as inattentive to her parent's discourse as he had been to her interjections.

Ahrun, on hearing the condition was in as deep distress as Mabrín had been, until he accidentally became acquainted with the ferryman, who described to him the generosity and fearless bravery of Gushtásp.

Similarly there seems to be some secret code of conduct governing the official class in India before which the flower of the great British nation fall prostrate and unconsciously become instruments of injustice which as private individuals they would be ashamed of perpetrating.

At sunset from the lawn of Fair-Oaks there was a pretty sight: it and the opposite park of Clavering were in the habit of putting on a rich golden tinge, which became them both wonderfully.

Men do not become exiles and martyrs voluntarily, unless they are backed by a great cause.

Eve actually fancied that the position of an American gentleman might readily become, nay that it ought to be the highest of all human stations, short of that of sovereigns.

He spoke to me before the gentlemen in a way which scarcely became him.

Under the combined blaze of their radiances, the wilderness that stretched before me, became steadily more visible.

And ordinarily, in the best rooms of one another, the ladies became spontaneously, rigidly formal as they assembled, speaking in tones suitably stiff of the day's paper, or viewing with hushed esteem those art treasures that surrounded them.

In ordinary times, extraordinary men seldom become prominent, power passing into the hands of clever managers.

There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

The governor of the city, who had chief control of the prison, happily became their friend, and did all he dared for them.

As we went forward, the sound became plainer continually, showing that we were heading straight toward it.

Fortunately, however, after a few rounds of this English-Kannada speech it became obvious that the audience did not need the Kannada translation since they all understood English quite well.

Field Notes on Vermiculture: Turning Garbage into Gold Vermicompost and vermiwash are the two earthworm products that have become very popular nowadays.