His feeling for Mrs. Bowse herself had verged on affection, because he would have been fond of any woman of decent temper and kindliness, especially if she gave him opportunities to do friendly service.
Thank you, Miss," Pearson's relieved gratitude verged on the devout.
Some like Saturninus and Bardesanes verged toward Manichaean doctrine; others like Tatian and Marcion toward Egyptian dualism; but all held to emanation as the philosophical explanation of what the Scriptures call creation.
Robinson verged toward Irving's view, when he claimed that "Christ took human nature as he found it.
The ten young ladies were chosen after investigations the most scrutinizing; the conditions of the admission verged on the impossible.
He needed some concrete occupation to distract him from a joy which verged on delirium.
As spring verged into summer, Uncle Sheba yielded more and more to the lassitude of the season.
Mrs. Bodine kept pace with her nonsense which at times even verged on audacity, and the veteran began to laugh as he had done before the "Houghton episode," as he now characterized it in his mind.
The hair verged on a fiery red, the nose was a real sky-scraper and the upper lip was almost proboscidian in its length.
All this filled her with a half-conscious feeling which verged on the intoxication of delight.
Often theyverged like this beyond the borders of rational quotation.
On the same day, these hosts, each unconscious of the other, crossed opposite borders and verged toward the prepared citadel between them.
All his life long he had had to struggle against hatred and misunderstanding; now the reverence for him verged on the ridiculous; in Berlin it verged on idiocy.
Mrs. Watts had verged into the acrimonious vein, taken stock of Mattie's general appearance at that juncture, and introduced it into her conversation with an ease and fluency that was remarkable.
These two essays are hard reading, for his philosophical style was usually technical, and sometimesverged on obscurity.
Estella Benton's experience along such lines was chiefly a blank and the conditioning circumstances of her present journey were somber enough to breed thought that verged upon the melancholy.
Things had happened so swiftly, to ruthlessly, that she still verged upon the incredulous.
She has written very delicately and beautifully of friendships between men and women; and she had her own intimacies that verged upon tenderness, but were free from any shadow of reproach.
The two knights verged with him but kept the opening between them as wide as before.
Little by little he verged to the edge of the road.
That very afternoon she had read in the Figaro an account of the proceedings at a public meeting which had verged on the comic.
To begin with, the meeting of the marquis and the count had given her a severe fit of feverish nervousness, which verged at times on laughter.
By some kindly dispensation of Providence they contrived to be ill in turns, and the situation might have verged on the comical but for the fact that blank despair was written on the face of the mother.
Yet we neververged beyond the bounds of mere camaraderie, nor do I think that either of us wished to do so.
A beard also would have become him, for his chin verged slightly to the cut-away type, and a three-days' stubble looks merely unkempt.
I think we two humansverged into a semi-torpid condition after that barbaric meal.
But Daylight's mood verged on the tender and melting, and he preferred to think of them as golden, and therefore they were golden.
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