As soon as you find you can gradate tolerably with the pen, take an H.
When you can manage to tint and gradate tenderly with the pencil point, get a good large alphabet, and try to tint the letters into shape with the pencil point.
From this point the dark and light masses gradate in different directions until they merge above the ships' sails.
Probably non-living substances gradate into living ones by imperceptible differentiae, as man would be found to gradate back into an anthropoid ape or something of the kind if we could see all the stages.
Gradate veins: a transverse series of veins, each before or beyond the next.
Gradate -vim: one grade or step at a time: to arrange in a series: to blend so as to merge one into the other - e.
II], of white marble, which may be supposed to let every tint sink into it, like as a drop of ink sinks in and spreads itself upon course paper, whereby each tint will gradate all around.
Nay, I think it may even be a question whether we ought not to resolve that the line should never gradate itself at all, but terminate quite bluntly!
