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Example sentences for "became quite"

  • Sabathier, who had visited Lourdes for six years past, perceived him, he became quite gay.

  • He repeated this appeal with all his charity, clasped his hands, and gazed fixedly at the statue of the Virgin, until he became quite giddy, and imagined that the figure moved.

  • At last Raboin discovered the documents classified under a wrong letter; and when the doctor had perused the two medical certificates he became quite enthusiastic.

  • Even my companions, whose sense of appreciation of the beauties of nature was but slightly developed, became quite enthusiastic.

  • I had met such a friendly reception and generous treatment at the hands of the kind-hearted doctor, he had proved such an unselfish friend to me, that I became quite attached to him.

  • The nearer we approached the mountain ridge called Kara Sengher (black wall) the softer did the soil get under our feet, and it became quite a bog when we came quite near the mountain.

  • It became quite a daily practice of the enemy at this time to blow a mine at sunrise and sundown.

  • He slept on straw and lived so severe a life of penance that he became quite enfeebled.

  • This image was of such extreme beauty that the Indians became quite enamoured of it, and father Olmedo explained what was meant by such an image, and how Christians prayed before it.

  • When Bono, to his great surprise, found that Tapia had left the country, he became quite downcast, set sail the very next day for Vera Cruz, from whence he journeyed overland to Mexico.

  • I heard so much of Twenty Seven, of his pious admonitions to everybody around him, and of the beautiful letters he constantly wrote to his mother (whom he seemed to consider in a very bad way), that I became quite impatient to see him.

  • Mr. Spiker was so interested, that he became quite stony.

  • Thus a performance of Rienzi, especially in summer, became quite a Dionysian revelry, whose effect upon me could not fail to be encouraging.

  • Yet it was only gradually that I became quite conscious of all this.

  • In addition to members of the stage I knew a few people in the town, and we received and visited the family of Dorn, the musical director, with whom I became quite intimate.

  • Incidentally it became quite an Angelus for us.

  • I presently infected "Dundreary," who, in his melancholy way, became quite jovial.

  • I suppose I got an hour's sleep before 11 o'clock, when it got so hot that it became quite unpleasant in my hiding-place.

  • We were now among cornfields and got held up until it became quite dark by the presence of various Germans in the fields.

  • My plan was to cross as soon as it became quite dark.

  • I became quite delighted at the idea of having acquired such a treasure, and began to put those [charms] in practice.

  • I became quite afflicted at the strange and astonishing sight; but being helpless, I thought it best to bury him.

  • Ib said nothing; but before the time came for them to part, it became quite clear to him that Christina must be his wife: had they not even in childhood been called the betrothed?

  • I must build the castle in reality now," said George; and he became quite warm at his own words.

  • So the woman was obliged to bring out the wine also, which she had hidden, and the farmer drank it till he became quite merry.

  • His own history was changed into that of Anthony till it became quite a story, and many stories might be made by others, so we will leave them to relate their own.

  • When it became quite light I saw that I was not very far from the town.

  • Sister Marie-Aimée, who had not been well for some time, became quite ill.

  • Then it became quite still, and I put it down for Bibiche to come and pluck it.

  • Anyhow, they attracted crowds about me, and I became quite a lioness in the streets of Simpheropol, until the arrival of some Highlanders in their uniform cut me out.

  • It has been said that Comethup often occupied a seat in the captain's pew in church; it became quite a regular thing for him to do so after a time.

  • It became quite a regular thing for the child to take his place among those excited, eager gamblers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became acquainted; became aware; became chief; became conscious; became dark; became editor; became evident; became first; became highly; became king; became known; became lord; became more; became more and more; became necessary; became professor; became quite; became silent; became very; became vicar; both fore; forty year; often made; rescue them; shall next; twenty days