1 That lady, though still floating in the void, showed faint symptoms of developing an outline; and in this endeavour she was actively seconded by Mr. Melville Stancy.
2 There were assuredly wonderful mysteries about the developing of these things; and then, becoming confidential, Mr. Finnegan proceeded to tell of some discoveries of his own.
3 In the first place she was developing a cough, like the one that had killed old Dede Antanas.
4 He was drinking, and developing a villainous temper, and he stormed and cursed and raged at his men, and drove them until they were ready to drop with exhaustion.
5 The rushing yellow of the developing day went on behind their backs.
6 So engrossed was she that she had no consciousness of being observed and one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.
7 One night when Miss Murdstone had been developing certain household plans to her brother, of which he signified his approbation, my mother suddenly began to cry, and said she thought she might have been consulted.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 8 Political economy told him that the laws by which the wealth of Europe had been developed, and was developing, were universal and unvarying.
9 She's worth educating and developing.
10 We are developing a taste for it.
11 The Grand Master began answering him, and Pierre began developing his views with more and more warmth.
12 This fresh development has shown me that I was completely mistaken.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 13 The same great manufacturer, always with an immense variety of work on hand, in every stage of development, passed Sissy onward in his mill, and worked her up into a very pretty article indeed.
14 I can only suppose that the circumstances of your early life were too unfavourable to the development of your reasoning powers, and that we began too late.
15 It's what endures through one's life that matters; my own life matters to me, in its long continuance and development.