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• As the shades deepened, his practised ear detected sounds that others would have thought little of, but which he considered, unmistakably to be produced by the stealthy tread of Indians. —  The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
• Then the lines about them multiplied and deepened, and his face took on new life Mrs. Marshall, the large lady at the gate, splendidly starched in her afternoon calico, regarded him without personal interest. —  Country Neighbors
• As the dawn deepened, the sharp-tails began to fly down from their roosts to the berry bushes. —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
• The firing deepened, and a hoarse yell arose as the English flag, shot from its staff, fluttered down into the curling smoke They are murdering the garrison!" —  The River of Darkness, or, Under Africa
• Amid it all his genius grew and deepened, and when he returned again to the east in 1856 he was no longer a novice, but an accomplished actor His last years in California had been shadowed by a great sorrow--the sudden and pitiful death of his father. —  American Men of Mind

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