And not once, but many times, have I read in the newspapers of workingmen's families of four or five which are gainingcollectively more than five hundred pounds a year.
The enemy soon fell back, and after gaining some ground we were directed to fell trees and erect another line of works.
For some months before the assault upon Breda the army of Holland had been gaining vastly in strength and organization.
As soon as they were well beyond the faint light now given out by the expiring fire they rose to their feet, and gaining the track took their way on the backward road.
We crossed the stream, and gaining the farther side of the pool I have mentioned, discovered proofs that the spot must have been visited by some one but a short time previous to our arrival.
On gaining the heights once more, their way led for a time along several ridges covered with enormous ferns.
All these women are credited in their legends with founding monasteries and gaininglocal influence, and excepting in the case of St Tibba, I have come across no coupling of their names with profane cults.
Zwingli, a Swiss reformer, was gaining many followers, and the Anabaptists were rousing Luther's apprehensions by their radical plans for doing away with the Catholic religion.
Prussia had greatly extended her territory by gaining Silesia and West Poland.
England has secured her interests in the eastern Mediterranean by gaining control of the Suez Canal, which was completed in 1869, mainly with French capital.
The king had married a Catholic princess, and the Catholic cause seemed to be gaining on the continent.
The pope was greatly perturbed by the French invasion, and in spite of the fact that he was the head of Christendom, he entered into negotiations with the Turkish sultan in the hope of gaining aid against the French king.
They not only preached and founded schools, but also succeeded in gaining the confidence of some of the German princes, whose chief advisers they became.
He went from place to place founding monasteries and gaining the respect of the people by his rigid self-denial and by the miracles that he performed.
He early entered one of the lower orders of the Church, but grew up in the service of the crown, and was able to aid Henry in gaining the throne.
Italians even went to Constantinople to learn the language; and the diplomatic negotiations which the Eastern Church carried on with the Western, with the hope of gaining help against the Turks, brought some Greek scholars to Italy.
Napoleon had planned to take three years to conquer Russia, but he was forced on by the necessity ofgaining at least one signal victory before he closed the season's campaign.
With the hope of gaining the support of the whole nation in his conflict with the head of the Church, the king summoned a great council of his realm in 1302.
But in the twelfth and thirteenth century western Europe appears to have been gaining steadily in population.
In France the citizens organized themselves into what were called communes, or unions for the purpose of gainingtheir independence.
The attack succeeded in gaining a hold astride the Marquion line, south of Bourlon Wood.
However, by treating my servants with a dignified disregard, and by dint of using my eyes while at table, I have committed no great solecism so far, I trust, and am rapidly gaining in knowledge and confidence.
Independently of being the best dancers, after gaining the laurels of victory in the hard-fought field, who can deny that they deserved the prize of beauty?
The latter method of explaining their victories has been frequently adopted, and the French generals have been reproached with lavishing the lives of thousands for the sake of gaining unimportant advantages, or repairing inconsiderable faults.
Yet, after all their triumphs, the French have the mortification to have failed in gaining that for which they first took up arms, and for which they have maintained so long and so obstinate a struggle.
During the following winter he made himself useful in France in gaining information for the government.
He headed a Corsican deputation which went to France in order to denounce Paoli and to solicit aid for the democrats; but, on the Paolists gaining the upper hand, the Bonapartes left the island and joined Lucien at Toulon.
The Radicals, though gaining ground in the country, were numerically weak in the House of Commons, and the measure fell to the ground between the opposition of the Tories and the faint praise with which it was damned by the Whigs.
All of a sudden, from out the spacious halls of which they had caught a glimpse on arriving, brisk steps began to come towards them over the oilcloth--at first as a mere tapping in the distance, then rapidly gaining in weight and decision.
When will our religious writers learn that the great battle now is not among the various sections of the Christian camp, but with an outside enemy, indefatigable, learned, plausible, and every day gaining ground?
Expanding within and gaining experiences from the animal, they again overflow the limits of the animal, and appear as the human.
All this time the battle was raging on every side round them, and the attacking fleet drew closer and closer to the junks at anchor, and appeared to be gaining the victory.
The French would gladly have aided the Egyptians for the sake ofgaining a footing in the country, but as they were not ready for war they thought it wiser to refrain from all open acts of hostility.
Surely and steadily the canoes were gaining on the boat.
The Chinamen's boat pulled fast, and they appeared to be very slightly gaining on her.
Pikes were poked out at them, pistols were flashed in their faces, and cold shot hove into their boat, but fiercely as the pirates fought, they could not prevent the British seamen from gaining the deck of their vessel.
We shall have her at last," cried Adair; "we are gaining on her, I am certain of it.
They climbed the bridle-path, gaining at last the pass whence Frank himself had ascended to the hill-top.
In the course of the afternoon Ah Wu's three attendants arrived, gaining entrance into the opium den by means of the back door.
Gaining the narrow creek that separates Shamien from the main part of the city, Ling dashed across the bridge of boats.
He succeeded ingaining the top, and there lay flat upon his face.
McKean is a Canadian officer who served throughout the war, first as a private, afterwards gaining a commission, and winning successively the Military Medal, the V.
He fights with Griffith the Welsh King, kills his enemy In a desperate conflict amidst the hills, and, gaining the friendship of Harold, Earl of Wessex, his outlawry is removed and his lands restored to him.
He wanted to interest capitalists to start a town on his claim, and had succeeded in gaining the attention of Willis A.
Lands in the valley were cheap, and he succeeded in gainingcontrol of immense tracts, and unlimited capital for their development.
To this I replied that having been confined during the whole of my captivity between two guns, on the lower-deck, I had had no means of gaining any information whatever, either upon the points mentioned, or indeed any others.
Their increased spread of canvas soon told a tale, for before half an hour had passed it became evident that they were gaining upon us, going faster through the water, that is; but she did not appear to weather on us much, if at all.
The wicked bailiff is watching the disruption of the home with satisfaction, and succeeds in gaining Lady Margit's affection.
The Baroness dreamt of going on the stage, of devoting herself to art, to a mission, and of thus gaining individual independence.
Many persons who had come from France with the governor now joined an expedition which had begun so auspiciously, desirous of gaining a fortune with the same rapidity as the older colonists.
All in vain; the great bird of prey bore down upon him like a hawk upon a throstle, gaining, gaining every moment.
In this game--with which you are too young to be well acquainted--there is a method of gaining by what is known as Bluff.
I had thought that, on gainingthe crestline, we must again descend to something approaching the level of the sea.
The news both gave fresh courage to the Romans who were now gaining the day, and dismayed the Æquans who were beginning to give way.
They were now on the point of gaining the summit of the hill, when the enemy turned their backs, and pursued and pursuer at full speed rushed into the camp almost in one body.
He indeed, his own party beckoning and calling to him, gaining heart from the encouraging shouts of many of his friends, made good his escape.
The Fidenates,[13] being of opinion that a power in too close proximity to themselves was gaining strength, hastened to make war before the power of the Romans should attain the greatness it was evidently destined to reach.
Despite the handicap of an extra passenger, the boat was gaining on the contestants ahead.
Realizing that her tactics were gaining nothing, Ma tried another approach.
Only in the interests of gaining good stories for our newspaper, The Star," Mr. Parker supplied.
By the second month, Ethyl, gradually gaining strength, was able to take wheat grass and carrot juice orally, and gradually eased into raw foods, mostly sprouts and leafy greens such as sunflower and buckwheat greens grown in trays.
Exercise permits a person to eat somewhat more while not gaining weight.
If you are very thin and have difficulty gaining weight you may find that the pounds go on easier because chewing well makes your body more capable of actually assimilating the calories you are consuming.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gaining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
