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Gradually   /grˈædʒuəli/  /grˈædʒuli/   Listen
Gradually

adverb
1.
In a gradual manner.  Synonyms: bit by bit, step by step.






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"Gradually" Quotes from Famous Books



... at once toward the smoke, and gradually the light of a fire appeared among the trees. Approaching cautiously, he saw the correctness of his surmise that it was Blackstaffe, Red Eagle and their band. Most of the warriors were lying down, all save two or three asleep, but the renegade ...
— The Keepers of the Trail - A Story of the Great Woods • Joseph A. Altsheler

... Gradually Louise felt her resentment disappearing. In Arthur's presence the charm of his personality influenced her to be lenient with his shortcomings. And his evident desire for a reconciliation found an echo ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society • Edith Van Dyne

... timer reached zero. A mighty fan of fire shot into space. The asteroid shuddered from the blast, then swerved gradually, picking up speed as ...
— Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin

... uncertain line, not unlike the letter S, gradually straightened itself, and the boys looked down to their feet as if they expected to see a chalk-mark on ...
— Captain Horace • Sophie May

... suspends many of the faculties of the vital and intellectual principle; drunkenness and disease will either temporarily or permanently derange them. Madness or idiotcy may utterly extinguish the most excellent and delicate of those powers. In old age the mind gradually withers; and as it grew and was strengthened with the body, so does it together with the body sink into decrepitude. Assuredly these are convincing evidences that so soon as the organs of the body are subjected to the laws of inanimate ...
— A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays • Percy Bysshe Shelley


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