The "Stevens rail and spike" gradually found great favor everywhere in America--all the roads being relaid with it as the original T or strap rail became worn out.
Mr. Guest became interested in the matter and accompanied Mr. Stevens to Wales, where the latter gave his personal supervision to the construction of the rolls.
As the afternoon advanced, the situation of the Minnesota became increasingly desperate.
Terry answered so promptly and politely that she became quite interested in him, and finally began to sound him as to his plans for the future.
It is one of those books which have been favourites with healthy-minded lads since books became common.
It was the topic of the day, and became a source of so much exasperation to the mistress of the ruined mansion, that she would almost have rejoiced to sink Pendarrel in some fathomless pool off the Lizard.
She was glad when her husband came home from his official duties; and he became seriously alarmed at her altered demeanour.
Cornelius became rather fidgety, for he saw that the paper which Mr. Riches had mentioned lay upon the open page, and was covered with writing.
It was a notable fact at this time that Seymour Rereworth, the recluse law-student, whom Mrs. Winston used to rally for his devotion to so crabbed a mistress, became a frequent haunter of the house in Cavendish Square.
For some time he played at hide-and-seek with the minions of the sheriff; but at length they triumphed, and Melcomb became an inmate of the King's Bench.
Restless and impatient, Randolph roamed through the metropolis, scrutinizing the wayfarers, until his eyes became weary of the endless succession of unknown faces.
But his pacebecame gradually slower and steadier, and the flaneurs went on their way, wondering what might have caused so much agitation.
Farmer Colan once told her, she might not object to change her name; and now a rumour to the same effectbecame very current in the gossip of the hamlet.
There too she became acquainted with the black-letter lore, which of old was the delight of her husband and sister; and there in long detail she heard the story of their early ambition.
The interior of the corn-stack, fired by Gabriel, rapidly became a furnace, while volumes of steam and smoke rolled from the wetted thatch, and were shortly followed by jets of flame bursting from the inside.
After a few days had passed, he became much annoyed, and asked some of the people where the Minor Canon had gone.
Day by day the Griffin became more and more attached to the Minor Canon, He kept near him a great part of the time, and often spent the night in front of the little house where the young clergyman lived alone.
When she blushed it gradually becamemore indistinct, and finally vanished amid the triumphant rush of blood that bathed the whole cheek with its brilliant glow.
It became necessary, at last, that I should arouse both master and valet to the expediency of removing the treasure.
This state of matters became rapidly insupportable; and Denis, to put an end to it, remarked politely that the wind had gone down.
The more he thought, the more clear it became to his mind that it was his duty to go away, and thus free the town from the presence of the Griffin.
As the evening wore away he became more and more absorbed in reverie, from which no sallies of mine could arouse him.
Therefore it was, that, when he heard of this stone image of himself, he became very anxious to know what he looked like, and at last he determined to go to the old church, and see for himself what manner of being he was.
He was so much excited that his tail became red-hot, and glowed like a meteor against the evening sky.
Then, little by little, the square became empty, and when the Angelus[3] struck midday those who lived too far away to go home betook themselves to the various inns.
Because she recognized in Negro slavery and in the legal bondage of women flagrant violations of this principle, she becamean active, courageous, effective antislavery crusader and a champion of civil and political rights for women.
The Revolution office became the rallying point for a forward-looking group of women, many of whom contributed to the hard-hitting liberal sheet.
All of these became valuable, loyal friends in the years ahead.
She went to meeting with Daniel but never became a Quaker, feeling always that she could not live up to their strict standard of righteousness.
Men came to the school to conduct some of the classes, and Deborah Moulson was also assisted by several student teachers, one of whom, Lydia Mott, became Susan's lifelong friend.
When early in 1875 the Beecher-Tilton case reached the courts in a suit brought by Theodore Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher for the alienation of his wife's affections, it became headline news throughout the country.
As they planned their book, it soon became obvious that the one volume which they had hoped to finish in a few months would extend to two or three volumes and take many years to write.
As the discussion became too acrimonious, Mrs. Catt put an end to it by calling up unfinished business, and thus managed to steer the remainder of the session into less troubled waters.
Needless to say, with such a background, Victoria Woodhull became a very controversial figure among the suffragists.
Her more ambitious plans for them were somewhat delayed by home responsibilities which developed when her father became an agent of the New York Life Insurance Company.
They became devoted friends, and for the next few years carried on a voluminous correspondence.
The clamor for Susan and Mrs. Stanton was so strong and continuous among the younger members that it soon became apparent that unless one or the other were chosen, there would be no hope of union.
Hovey, the wealthy Boston dry-goods merchant, listened attentively to every word, and in the years that followed became a generous contributor to the cause.
A few weeks before her thirteenth birthday, Susan became a member of the Society of Friends which met in nearby Easton, New York, and learned to search her heart and ask herself, "Art thou faithful?
At the same time that this occurred Kate Belthorpe became Mrs. Dexter Lyon.
The march was made in such order that the enemy thought a parade was taking place in the plain below them, and it was not until Thomas's skirmishers fired on their outposts that they became aware that a battle was on hand.
The gap was quickly filled by Longstreet, and thus the right and left wings of the Army of the Cumberland became separated, and henceforth two battles ensued instead of one, on ground from a half a mile to one mile apart.
In these thickets whole divisions became separated from their comrades in arms, and often a single regiment on one side would be found fighting a regiment on the other side, totally ignorant of what was going on around them.
In the meantime Morgan became active again, and the second division of Reynold's brigade, under Colonel Hall, was sent in his pursuit.
I have seen nothing of him," said Deck, and instantly became suspicious.
Upon the retirement of Noah Lyon, Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon became the commandant of the regiment, and Deck was made second in command.
At the same time Sandy Lyon became a full-fledged captain, much to old Titus Lyon's delight and to the joy of his mother and sisters.
In one battle Colonel Gordon was shot down, and then Deck became the commander, a position he held until that final surrender of Lee to Grant at Appomattox.
The colonel was placed in a chamber adjoining that of his foster-son, and Rosebel and Miss Pomeroy became his nurses, Deck promising to pay them handsomely for whatever was done.
By this time the battle had extended down the line, and now Cleburn, Walker, Cheatham, and othersbecame involved.
Morgan fought desperately, but Stanley was too wide-awake for him, and turned his left flank, and the raiders became demoralized, the exact reason for which has never been explained.
The longer he talked, however, the hotter and angrier he became by degrees.
Thence to the diamond fields, the country became at each step more sombre and more monotonous than ever.
It seemed an age; but, after a time, he becameconscious of a gust of air blowing cold on his face.
As the day wore on, however, it became gradually clear to him that Montague Nevitt didn't mean to return at all.
As the carriage approached, they became mute and silent as the grave until the major's party had passed.
Some of the whites became alarmed, and recognizing the power of the negroes, if armed and conscious of their strength, were impressed by the immediate necessity of overpowering and overawing them.
With no very great apparent effort, Miss Pemberton became quite friendly, and they strolled along the beach, in sight of the hotel, for nearly half an hour.
The absurdity of the remaining charge became more fully apparent in the light of the reaction from the excitement of the day before.
The colored people became alarmed at the murmurings of the whites, which seemed to presage a coming storm.
Under the new Constitution it would be two full years before the "nigger amendment" became effective, and meanwhile the Wellington district would remain hopelessly Republican.
The murder eliminated or rendered doubtful, the crime became a mere vulgar robbery, the extent of which no one could estimate, since no living soul knew how much money Mrs. Ochiltree had had in the cedar chest.
The editor of the Afro-American Banner, whose office had been quietly garrisoned for several nights by armed negroes, became frightened, and disappeared from the town between two suns.
Even his own great sorrow became of secondary importance beside the grief which his wife must soon feel at the inevitable loss of her only child.
What became of that editorial in the nigger paper?
No, sir; she became alarmed about you, soon after the shooting commenced, and I could not keep her.
While little was said in Wellington, public sentiment all over the country became every day more favorable to the views of the conspirators.
Both the money found in Fitzmartin's car and the money in the cave became a part of George Warden's estate.
Assuming he could be questioned about Grassman, then George became the weak link.
At first I could not see, and then my eyes became used to the light.
In the moment he killed Grassman, Fitz became more deeply involved.
They seemed like nonsense at first and soon became magical.
One of the supply trucks became mired inside the compound, rear duals down to the hubs.
I took it off his body after he died and it became mine.
In some crazy way it became our picture--Timmy's and mine.
She came back from this pleasant day-dream to hear Cousin Mehitable saying, "Speaking of thieves, does anyone know what ever became of poor Dan Darcy?
It was such an interesting kitchen, seen through this peep-hole that Georgina became absorbed in rolling her eye around for wider views.
The "traders" usually bought their negroes when an estate became involved, for the owners could not be induced to part with their negroes until the last extremity--when everything else had been seized by their creditors.
Indeed, in our part of the world, a mistress became offended if the faults of her servants were alluded to, just as persons become displeased when the faults of their children are discussed.
After this the King became very ill, and during more than two years after his recovery Frances dragged on a miserable existence at the palace.
If any of the older servants became displeased with us, we were miserable until we had restored the old smile by presenting some choice bit of sweet meat, cake or candy.
And in this way we became possessed of a famous termagant, who had married our grand-father's gardener, quarrelled him to death in one year and survived to quarrel forty years longer with the other negroes.
The manners, character and political proclivities of this visitor became so disagreeable to the old gentleman, they determined he should not repeat his visit, although they liked his wife.
Black Louis rarely left his master's side; assisting in the conversation if his master became perplexed or forgetful.
The pains in her side became so severe that she was forced to crawl from the card table of the old fury, Madame Schwellenberg, to whom she was tethered, three or four times in an evening, for the purpose of taking hartshorn.
I then concluded they had taken possession of my bed-room in my absence, but not finding them there became very uneasy about them.
Suddenly, as he stood, he became conscious that there was a moving blur before him, as if some portion of the general darkness, by some trick of vision, had been rendered more compact and animate.
He was glad that Cahews and Pomp were busy in the rear, and he became conscious of the hope that no stray customer would interrupt him at what seemed such a grave and important moment.
At first he could see only old Welborne at a potato-bed on the right, but as his sight became used to the outer gloom he descried a man leaning on the fence near the gate.
In that year Cyrus conquered it for Persia, and its history became merged in that of Persia.
Under such training the issue between the Jew and the Samaritan became of less and less consequence, and he and not the Samaritan was on the pathway which led direct to the final worship of God in spirit and in truth (John iv.
The sea was dead calm, and in parts still mirrored the moon and a few stars: then suddenly one part of it became molten gold, and that nearest us was muffled into purple-blue wavelets by the dawn-wind.
I became restless and left him, and went and lay down behind an angle of the East end, under the tree.
It seemed incredibly large, and whatever it illumed became strange and beautiful beyond words.
We were in the middle of a vast plain, almost surrounded by a series of low, pointed hills, whichbecame a deep purple.
In Italy he became an Italian in spirit; in Algiers, an Arab.
Stevenson was waiting for a friend to arrive by train, and when the friend appeared, the drowned revenant became another being.
You may be sure I am better again, or I could not have withstood the wild gale which met us far south in the Gulf of Lyons and becamealmost a hurricane near Marseilles.
Here Andrew Malden lived; by that lounge hebecame a changed man; from that old rocker he went home to God.
When the eleven-inch shells which had wrought such destruction at the port began to fall it soon became evident that the works on which had been expended the labor of months and the skill of the best engineers were going to dust.
To tell the truth, Mr. Melvin was something of a statesman as well as a preacher, and with narrow bigots soon became as much hated as he was beloved by the broad and liberal minded.
After a month or two of work in designing, the ease became so marked and apparent that it engendered in me the beginnings of mistrust.
Indeed, so easy was it that it became a matter of some embarrassment to prune and select the required amount of data.
The political bankruptcy of the middle class, which expressed itself in this historic interchange of roles, became a direct stimulus to an independent proletarian movement based on the rapid development of capitalism.
The Vorwaerts clearly understood and cleverly stigmatized the base hypocrisy of the knout-loving ruling class of Germany, which suddenly became conscious of its mission to free Russia from Czarism.
And in the measure in which the bourgeois turned to "law and order," that is, became reactionary, the proletariat assumed the historical task it left uncompleted.
The blue tongue of flame subsided, lower and lower, and finally disappeared, so that the apartment became enwrapped in absolute darkness.
The sound of a window being raised becameaudible from within the locked room.
She became aware of a heavy perfume of hyacinths, and presently observed that there were many bowls of those flowers set upon little tables, and in niches in the wall.
At midday the heat grew so great that a halt became imperative.
The night was tropically brilliant, hot, and still, but saving the distant murmur of the city, and ordinary comings and goings along the country roads, there was nothing to account for a growing anxiety of which he became conscious.
All his old doubts and suspicions found a new life, so that his share in the conversation which presently arose became confined to a few laconic answers to direct questions.
He looked into the unfathomable, light blue eyes of Nicol Brinn, and became conscious of a certain mental confusion.
It was only necessary for him to assure himself that the latest visitor had been admitted to the house before the next move became possible.
Mrs. McMurdoch's glance became positively beseeching, but the physician ignored it.
Every now and again she glanced back, evidently in search of a cab, and a dormant suspicion which had lain in Harley's mind now became animate.
The muted sounds of Piccadilly becameaudible in the stillness.
A suffocating, sulphurous smell became perceptible also, and the roaring sound grew almost deafening.
He would lose caste if it became known that he had been attended by a Christian surgeon; therefore my visit must be a secret one.
Like hearts within my breast The bells would throb to me And drown the siren stars That sang enticingly; My heart became a bell-- Three bells were in my breast, Three hearts to comfort me.
Adolphine became deathly pale; but a glance from Gustave reassured her.
The dogs grew gaunt and howled all night, the babies cried, the women became hollow-eyed and peevish.
Helen, watching in silent terror, felt her brother sinking his fingers into her shoulder and heard him panting, his face ablaze with excitement, while she became conscious that he had.
Thus it became possible to wager $400 on a card, and the Kid began really to play.
As they drew nearer and nearer, the dread that possessed the girl became of paralyzing intensity.
The wind had blown for some days till the ocean beat heavily across the shallow bar, and now, as it became quieter, longshoremen were launching their craft, preparing to resume their traffic.
The office-fittings were wrecked utterly and the room became a litter of ruins.
She undertook to question him about the things which lay uppermost in her mind and which this night had half revealed, but he became fretful and irritated at the mention of mines and mining.
The Judge became greatly exercised over this new development, which, coupled with his night of long anxiety, reduced him to a pitiful hysteria.
Glenister became conscious of a raging, red fury which he had hard shift to master.
Voorhees's duties sat uncomfortably upon him at the best, and, looking at the smouldering eyes of the two men, he became averse to further search in a powdery household whose members itched to shoot him in the back.
It entered his gaping waistband, bulging out his yellow trousers till they were fat and full and the seams were bursting, while his yawning boot-tops became as boiling springs.
In a flash the girl's curiositybecame horror, for, as she watched, one of the dogs made a sudden dash through the now subdued group of animals and ran swiftly along the planking on which she stood.
She recounted the reasons for Helen's adventure, while the man's face became terrible.
And the rushing light-forms outside became a blur at first, then a solid stream of cold liquid fire into which they plunged at breakneck speed.
Swiftly his body merged with the half-substance of the tank andbecame an integral part of the mass.
A force area like that used by Tom Parker, an area existent in many planes of the fifth dimension simultaneously, an area where the various components of wave motion merged and became as one.
At the Wanderer's exclamation the enclosing spherebecame transparent and they were in the midst of a dizzying maelstrom of flashing color.
He called up Medicine Bend, reported, lighted a fire in the little stove, and the spot in the desert known now to men as Point of Rocks for the first time in the story of the world became a part of it--was linked to the world itself.
Stanley became so interested in studying the country during the day, as the difficulties of the problem presented themselves afresh to him, that the party made slow progress.
But it became quickly apparent that not all of the gang would surrender without a fight.
Each lodging of the captains, each barrack, became a redoubt that had to be carried.
Our heroes seized the Burgundians and English by the hair, boxed their ears and thumped them with such fury that the tables were completely turned; the erstwhile victors now became the vanquished, broke ranks and took to their heels.
The victory won and the intoxication of battle dissipated, the heroine became again a girl, full of tenderness for the vanquished.
Agile and robust, as became a child of the field, she leaped with one bound upon the back of the ass, urged it with heels, distaff and voice, and forced it into a gallop.
That notwithstanding, at Dieppe, the exasperation of the mob at what they really took for a witch became so violent that the people sought to tear her from our hands and trample her to death.
She soon became herself, and heard her mother calling: "Come quick, Jeannette, and help me to pack up these clothes!
In these moments of despair, the heroine became again the timid young girl whose intense modesty had caused her even to renounce the sacred joys of wifehood, and who had taken the vow of virginity to her saints.
Her eyes became suffused with tears and, her blood rushing to her head, she was, for a moment, seized with vertigo.
The communications of the spirits became more and more pressing in the measure that Joan approached her seventeenth year.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "became" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
