Frank and impulsive people are becoming so rare nowadays.
Among the hosts of women I knew, there were many whose sole ambition seemed to be of becoming a queen of colifichets, as though their ideal model was Pauline Borghese.
It is impossible to reach the truth in this maze, which is daily becoming vaster and more complicated.
Andre tried to prove that, being financially embarrassed, disliking my husband, and having constant quarrels with both him and my mother, I had thought of becoming the wife of M.
Such noble feelings were expressed in his letters that I grew more and more happy at the thought of becoming the wife of Adolphe Steinheil.
But though the hero who perished on the scaffold could not prevent his country from becoming one day a part of England, he did hinder its becoming so on unfair and tyrannical terms.
The settlement grew in population and wealth, and at the end of twelve years (1619) it had secured the privilege of making its own local laws, thus becomingpractically a self-governing community.
England had entered upon another period of history, in which old institutions, laws, and customs were passing away and all was becoming new.
By his quarrel with France he lost Normandy and the greater part of the adjoining provinces, thus becoming in a new sense John Lackland.
His nature, moreover, had nothing in it of the mysterious or ambiguous; he was the glorious torch which gave light to humanity, and which was seen every day to flame in the heavens without ever losing its brilliance or becoming weaker.
The general effect is one of elegance, refinement, and harmony, the three principal elements of the design becoming enlarged from the top downwards in a deftly adjusted gradation.
There would be nothing astonishing in the "count" becoming nothing more than a governor, hereditary or otherwise, in Thebes itself; he could hardly be anything higher in the capital of the empire.
This flow of metals had an influence upon commercial transactions, for although trade was still mainly carried on by barter, the mode of operation was becoming changed appreciably.
A literature which leaves large areas of the national activity and aspiration unexpressed is in danger of becoming narrow, esoteric, unhealthy.
The Lowland Scots element in 'Auld Lang Syne' has not prevented it from becoming the song of friendship of the Anglo-Saxon race all the world over.
From this forward--but by the by, I forgot; how could your becoming a poor scholar relieve your parents?
The cry of "Taxation without representation" is foolish enough as raised by the Philadelphia Convention, for do we not tax every foreigner that comes to us while he is in process of becoming a citizen and a voter?
We cannot doubt that great exertions have been, and are still being made, to secure what is considered by the promoters a becoming performance of this part of public worship.
Herzog, with that familiarity which was one of his means of becoming intimate with people.
The mistress took it, read what was written upon it in shaky handwriting, and suddenly becoming purple, rose.
The young man had the choice of becoming a mining or civil engineer, and of entering the government service.
She declared the speculation was a poor one, and did all she could to prevent any of her friends becoming shareholders.
You have led me like a child in this affair," Serge continued, becoming animated.
She had been married for some months, and her dreams of becoming a mother had not been realized.
The situation was becoming singularly perplexing to Serge.
After a while I was quite surrounded and the cabin soon becomingcrowded some one asked to see a little hatchet, so I opened my satchel to show them.
He was becoming hysterical, he told himself with compressed lips--no better than Lichfield Stope.
He had thought, after so many years, to have destroyed all the bonds which ordinarily connect men with life; but now a mere curiosity had grown into a tangible interest, and the interest showed unmistakable signs of becoming sympathy.
Mrs. Rushton was unlike her in every respect, low in size, plump, smiling, and dressed in the most becoming and elegant fashion.
All this was not improving to her spirits, and in becoming more unhappy she grew more irritable.
Under Miss Davis she has excellent opportunities of becoming fitted to be a governess, which, after all, is the safest career for a friendless woman.
My dear, simple clothes are more becoming to children," said Miss Davis, while Phyllis only curled her lip.
No longer snubbed and neglected in strange uncomfortable places, she had, in becoming more happy, also become more loving.
At last becoming thoroughly tired she closed her book and raised her eyes wearily, when they fell on a jar of wild flowers which yesterday she had arranged and placed upon a bracket against the wall.
But it is neither right nor becoming in a man to whom the public has given an income more than sufficient for his comfort and dignity to bequeath to that public a great debt, the effect of mere negligence and profusion.
It is at least equal in dignity and grandeur to the city government, and nothing prevents its becoming a vast scheme of corruption, except that it never can, by any possibility, possess a penny of revenue.
Water was becoming scarce, the air was so heated that the nights scarcely cooled it at all; while all this continued it was scarcely possible that the fever should subside.
It was a little more amusing than the old bureau at Rouen, but it was becoming ennuyant.
There was not the slightest trace of flirtation; the men saw them in anything butbecoming situations, and under an aspect which women do not usually show to the other sex, viz.
There was no disgrace in becoming a student again, and at the theatre they knew that he was not only an unsuccessful debutant, but also an author.
His hereditary disposition prevented his becoming an aristocrat, nor could he come to terms with the people.
Charles XV was a persona grata; he could do as he liked without becoming unpopular.
The danger of becoming like him was the difficult point.
His father did not like his idea of becoming an elementary school-teacher.
The problem of how to govern India is very difficult, and is unquestionably becomingmore and more so every year.
But if the soldier and the trader are not kept under some degree of statesmanlike control, they are capable of becoming the most formidable, though unconscious, enemies of the British Empire.
To those Pan-Angles concerned, it is becoming increasingly understood that the struggle has only just begun.
Land and water telegraphs by wire and wireless are steadily linking up points further and further apart, and rates are becoming cheaper.
Daniel Boone left his Kentucky home {51} when a neighbour moved to within twenty miles of him, because the country was becoming too thickly settled.
Such seeking will make for a becomingmodesty towards each other, and by it we shall lose nothing.
Lands are becoming more thickly populated and better defended.
The Governors' Conference is apparently becoming something of a fixture in our political life.
It can be said in general that we are travelling, though with a wise conservatism, away from the aristocratic to the democratic, by which is meant that privileges are becoming more seldom to the few and power more usual to the many.
Since 1911 it has been permitted to delay only, but not to prevent, the passing of a law desired by the representative branch, Parliament becoming thus in essence unicameral.
Becoming alarmed, she went across to fetch Mr. George Grodman, a gentleman known to us all by reputation, and to whose clear and scientific evidence we are much indebted, and got him to batter in the door.
You little beggar," he murmured, becoming conscious that the hour was late, and that he himself had been noisy at unbeseeming hours.
When you funked becoming a Beethoven, I got a dog and called him after you.
And Amber set a wistful smile in the becoming frame of her white hood.
He hardly noticed that Rosie had taken to feeding the canary; the question of how he should feed himself was becoming every day more and more menacing.
Peter's threat of becoming a regular visitor had been nullified by his father despatching him to Germany to buy up some more Teutonic patents.
By a natural transition arose the idea of becoming a music-teacher or a governess outside a Convent, and since her stay at home only helped to diminish her mother's resources, she resolved to augment them by leaving her.
It had ideals and was, in consequence, regarded by the general public with suspicion; but by reason of sincerity and braininess was rapidly becoming a power.
The concentration of the Press into the hands of a few conscienceless schemers was threatening to reduce the journalist to a mere hireling, and the better-class men were becoming seriously alarmed.
He informed her that his brain was becoming addled.
The tradesman, dreaming perhaps of becoming a Whiteley, having to choose whether to go forward or remain for all time in the little shop.
They pretend to fight among themselves, but it's rapidly becoming a close corporation.
She would commence bybecoming a power in journalism.
She put on a becomingsuit of armour and got upon a horse where everyone could see her.
The warnings given are usually right, and are becoming more and more reliable every year.
So, you see, good progress is being made; and the Signal Service system is becoming very useful to the nation, for property and life can often be saved from destruction when the approach of a severe storm is known.
I had some idea of calling on Mr Gray, of taking him into my confidence, of asking him to advise me as to the best means of becoming a pupil at the Slade School.
I give you and Tom Valentine an opportunity of becoming acquainted with each other.
I think it due to you to let you know that I have taken steps to prevent our father ever becoming acquainted with Jack's wickedness; and now let us drop this revolting subject at once and for ever.
You refuse to make him happy by becoming his wife, and you leave him in a state of poverty, because he can not inherit the fortune which is offered to him without your assistance.
But we will have nothing to do with it; we will wait till your climate, becoming more inclement, forces you to ask of us a labor equal to four, and then we can treat with you upon an equal footing!
Becoming more interested in the story minute by minute, Penny longed to ask if Mr. and Mrs. Rhett ever had had serious disagreements.
As her flag came down, he discovered that her condition, after the last shot, was becoming desperate.
Christy, in becoming first lieutenant, was relieved from duty as a watch officer; but his duties and responsibilities had been vastly increased.
Yes, sar; ten feet in some places," replied Quimp, suddenly becoming more communicative.
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified!
But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant, finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.
