become

He had become a plain, unvarnished Preston man. 🔊

I thought our neighbor was amused at my failure to interest Soames, and so, as I could not explain to him that my insistence was merely charitable, I became silent. 🔊

My arms gradually became stiff; they ached; but I could not drop themnow. 🔊

The clearer they became, the greater was my bewilderment, my distress and horror. 🔊

Butwell, one is so used to nodding and smiling in the street to anybody whom one knows that the action becomes almost independent of oneself; 🔊

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