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to come out, or to appear
- They emerged at last from the ravine into the full sunlight.p. 108.9
emerged = came out of
- On a very slowly moving band a rack-full of test-tubes was entering a large metal box, another, rack-full was emerging.p. 6.7
- From a neighbouring shrubbery emerged a nurse, leading by the hand a small boy, who howled as he went.p. 31.8
- Two shrimp-brown children emerged from a neighbouring shrubbery, stared at them for a moment with large, astonished eyes, then returned to their amusements among the leaves.p. 34.7
- He had emerged from that crimson twilight into the common electric glare with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony.p. 86.6
- In the open space at the centre of the square were two circular platforms of masonry and trampled clay–the roofs, it was evident, of underground chambers; for in the centre of each platform was an open hatchway, with a ladder emerging from the lower darkness.p. 113.1
- And slowly, raised by invisible hands from below, there emerged from the one a painted image of an eagle, from the other that of a man, naked, and nailed to a cross.p. 114.9
- Then suddenly he found himself reflecting that he had only to take hold of the zipper at her neck and give one long, strong pull ... He shut his eyes, he shook his head with the gesture of a dog shaking its ears as it emerges from the water.p. 145.1
- ...as the passions grow calm, as the fancy and sensibilities are less excited and less excitable, our reason becomes less troubled in its working, less obscured by the images, desires and distractions, in which it used to be absorbed; whereupon God emerges as from behind a cloud; our soul feels, sees, turns towards the source of all light; turns naturally and inevitably; for now that all that gave to the world of sensations its life and charms has begun to leak away from us, now that...p. 233.3
- Then, with a click the bathroom door opened and, very pale, the Savage emerged.p. 241.5
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