becoming

• Though not very becoming, they were said to be very comfortable and strong, and suitable to the work they had to do. —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
• This is a stage hardly ever found complete in all its consequences, but of which the traces remain in the customs and in the lore of many nations who have long since passed from it, becoming, as we might expect, fainter and fewer as it recedes into the distance. —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
• He wrote in 1835: "The contest is becoming--has become--not one alone of freedom for the blacks, but of freedom for the whites.... There will be no cessation of the strife until slavery shall be exterminated or liberty destroyed For a dozen years there had been only skirmishing. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• She was becoming, and she felt herself becoming, more of a woman. —  Renée Mauperin
• It was dressed out in a rose-colored robe and everything else becoming, and it had ear-rings in its ears and rings on its fingers. —  Italian Popular Tales

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