761 examples of come about in sentences

I thought thou'dst come about again; What think you now of Woman-kind, and Wedlock? Bel.

I will speak of the absurd situation which has come about.

After questioning Norine at length, he guessed that Alexandre must have learnt her address through La Couteau, though he could not say precisely how this had come about.

A like evolution has come about in medicine.

"Good evening, Mrs. Jablett," I said briskly; "not come about yourself, I hope.

"You've come about the property?" said Mr. Cannon amiably, in a matter-of-fact tone.

"And do not ask me, Christians, in what way this great change of pleasure into punishment will come about.

After the failure of the Frankfurt Constitution it slowly became clear to far-sighted Germans that there was only one way in which German unity could come about.

[When thirty days after her marriage Cæsonia brought forth a little daughter, he pretended that this, too, had come about through supernatural means and gave himself airs on the fact that in so few days after becoming a husband he was a father.

Most bad habits, however, come about unconsciously and are the result of "just letting things happen."

How has all the material progress of the nineteenth century come about?

And so it had come about, too, that Brede had had to take over the job of line inspector.

This change of opinion has come about partly through an extension of the definition of religion.

He regretted very much that the unfortunate affair had come about, and he felt that there could be no satisfaction in whipping the Southerner.

I once noticed a handsome, brown-faced boy there, who used to come about with a bow and arrows, soliciting coppers, which were placed one by one in a split stick, shot at, and pocketed by the archer, if hit,as they almost always were.

Let us consider its weaknesses at the present time, let us ask what changes in its circumstances are desirable in the public interest, and what are likely to come about.

After that she forgot Ronicky Doone and the rest of the world except Gregg, as he took her in his arms and asked over and over: "How did it come about?

In a not very long space of time, there will come about, O gods!

" "It's a fact, and it's strange how it's come about," said the hunter thoughtfully.

The return to life can't come about by talking.

After the first rains, which usually come about the middle of April, there is as a rule a month of beautiful weather with very little precipitation.

Dunnot thou go frettin' thysel' this road; nobry knows what's goin' to come about i' this world.

We took to goin' to singin'-school together; then I always come home from quiltin'-parties and conference-meetin's with her, because 'twas handy, bein' right next door; and so it come about that I begun to think of settlin' down for life, and that was the start of all my troubles.

And it come about that a fortnight after my arm had jined, and I could haul shrouds agin, we sighted the Marquesas, and bein' near about out o' water, the cap'en laid his course for the nearest land, and by daybreak of the second day we lay to in a small harbor, on the south side of an island where ships wa'n't very prompt to go commonly.

It does not just somehow come about that a number of people accidentally develop certain varieties of occupation, and that natural selection makes play with this result, cutting off the unfit and leaving only those who are fairly well adapted to their positions.

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