1 That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual to be measured by dates.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 2 'There's no occasion to trouble ourselves to move,' said Noah, getting his legs by gradual degrees abroad again.
3 The scene before the reddleman's eyes was a gradual series of ascents from the level of the road backward into the heart of the heath.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 4 This gradual sinking to the earth was, in fact, one reason why Eustacia had thought that the part of the Turkish Knight, though not the shortest, would suit her best.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight 5 I went slowly along, puzzling about the machines, and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light, until Weena's increasing apprehensions drew my attention.
6 The change had been so gradual, the flouting of one small convention seeming to have no connection with the flouting of another, and none of them any connection with Rhett.
7 The slope had always seemed so slight, so gradual, in days when she galloped up it on her fleet-footed mare.
8 It was here that her aunt received her rare confidences, and the pink-eyed smirk of the turbaned Beatrice was associated in her mind with the gradual fading of the smile from Mrs. Peniston's lips.
9 This spectacle of gradual strangulation made the youth writhe, and once as his friend rolled his eyes, he saw something in them that made him sink wailing to the ground.
10 This untoward result was not reached all at once, but like other similar results, by gradual steps.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII. 11 For to effect a gradual reform requires a sagacious man who can discern mischief while it is still remote and in the germ.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII. 12 With the beginning of the abolition movement and the gradual growth of a class of free Negroes came a change.
13 We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest.
14 Some weeks before their death, they feel a gradual decay; but without pain.
15 The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolizing her royal lineage, her emblems, the late-flowering plant and late-blossoming tree, symbolizing the age-long gradual growth of her cultus among men.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3