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Definition
to come out, or to appear
- She turned to him, as if she were emerging from unconsciousness.1.9 — Part 1 Chapter 9 (68% in)
- To be melted and to emerge as girders against the sky.1.1 — Part 1 Chapter 1 (7% in)
- He walked through the streets of New York, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, a dark business suit, a pale green satin shirt, a vest of white brocade, a huge black bow emerging from under his chin, and he carried a staff, not a cane, but a tall ebony staff surmounted by a bulb of solid gold.1.10 — Part 1 Chapter 10 (2% in)
- Then he emerged into the reception room, shook Heller's hand and suggested: "Would you mind stepping into the drafting room, Mr. Heller?1.10 — Part 1 Chapter 10 (83% in)
- When Roark came to the office for his drawing instruments Snyte emerged into the reception room, shook his hand warmly and said: "Well, Roark!1.11 — Part 1 Chapter 11 (3% in)
- Richard Sanborn, aged twenty-four, who had been a brilliant student in college and was now slowly drinking himself to death, startled his family by emerging from his usual lethargy and declaring that the house was magnificent.1.13 — Part 1 Chapter 13 (84% in)
- At a first glance upon Ellsworth Monkton Toohey one wished to offer him a heavy, well-padded overcoat—so frail and unprotected did his thin little body appear, like that of a chicken just emerging from the egg, in all the sorry fragility of unhardened bones.2.3 — Part 2 Chapter 3 (51% in)
- Keating smiled like a boy emerging from a stream on a summer day, glowing, invigorated, restless with energy.2.6 — Part 2 Chapter 6 (39% in)
- In the eyes of two reporters who emerged from an elevator in the lobby; in the pose of the elevator man who fought a desire to turn and stare back at him; in the sudden immobility of all the men in his anteroom, in the break of a typewriter's clicking on the desk of one secretary, in the lifted hand of another—he saw the waiting.4.15 — Part 4 Chapter 15 (4% in)
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