All 42 Uses of
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A Soldier of the Great War
- Still trotting, breathless, and tapping, he emerged from the Villa Borghese onto a long wide road that went up a hill and was flanked on either side by a row of tranquil buildings with tile roofs from which the light reflected as if it were a waterfall cascading onto broken rock.†
Chpt 1emerged = came out of, or appeared
- Next to emerge was a pocket knife, very sharp and very old, with a flint in the handle.†
Chpt 1
- Then, safe from the carabinieri, Alessandro would speed through the foliage, enchanted by the dark leaves and the wind in the pines until he emerged from the forest at the coast, onto an empty white beach with the sound of the waves obliterating his hard breathing and the wind cooling his sweat-drenched horse.†
Chpt 2emerged = came out of, or appeared
- This was the most direct route, and the prettiest, and, after swimming in the sea, one had merely to push from the waves into the stream's pulsating plume, traveling up the transparent shallows to emerge free of salt and chill, for even in early spring the currents could be as warm as bath water.†
Chpt 2
- He began to think about Argentina, and it was not unpleasant, but before he left he would stand by the stream that flowed into the sea and watch as Lia and her lover emerged from the dunes.†
Chpt 2emerged = came out of, or appeared
- The girls and boys had been captivated with the idea of catching speckled trout that hovered in the waist-deep pools, and had gone in, in their clothing, at first only up to the knee, but then up to the waist, and eventually, slowly, they were diving under the water in pursuit of the fish, and emerging with their hair matted down and fresh cold water running from it, sparkling in the sun.†
Chpt 2emerging = coming out of, or appearing
- As the student with the saber grasped it with both hands and slowly raised it, Alessandro emerged from behind and hit him on the back of the head with a sideways stroke of the pistol, opening his scalp and knocking him to the floor.†
Chpt 2emerged = came out of, or appeared
- Lia quickly looked up, shading her eyes from the sun, and at that moment Raft Foa emerged from the Giulianis' house, dressed in a full business suit and carrying a leather briefcase.†
Chpt 2
- When one half of his face had emerged from the drifts and the other was still covered, the door to Luciana's room opened.†
Chpt 2
- In the driving apart of so many families, every family would be driven apart; in the death of so many husbands and sons, every husband and son would die; in the anarchy and gravity of suffering, God's laws would emerge in all their color, hardness, and injustice.†
Chpt 3
- A lieutenant of infantry emerged from the grove of pale trees that protected the mouth of the shaft, walking briskly, with his left hand resting on his pistol belt and his right grasping a short stick.†
Chpt 4emerged = came out of, or appeared
- We'll emerge on the riverbank.†
Chpt 4
- Emerging from the narrow passage that led to the cortile, they found that Alessandro had been cut deeply in the throat.†
Chpt 4emerging = coming out of, or appearing
- It could take the sun blindingly, like the flash of a sword, collapse upon itself in surf-like white, float in a mist of rainbows, or rush from darkness to darkness, emerging momentarily over a bed of yellow pebbles as if to be proved clear by the sun.†
Chpt 4
- For this meal Alessandro paid four months' salary, and when he emerged from the hotel he went to a bakery and bought a loaf of freshly baked bread.†
Chpt 5emerged = came out of, or appeared
- A hatch popped up in the bow and two sailors emerged to winch up the anchor.†
Chpt 5
- They can emerge near the gun, which has an armored shield.†
Chpt 5
- He emerged from the stream, shook off the water, dressed, and went to sit on his pack.†
Chpt 5emerged = came out of, or appeared
- Keeping his balance, he emerged on an empty beach, in a warm wind that had dried his clothing by the time he put on his boots and that promised to dry the boots themselves before he crossed the first ring of fire.†
Chpt 6
- After they emerged among the tall twisted pines of the Viale della Mura, a passerby would have thought that they had come from the Porta San Pancrazio, for the wall appeared unbreachable.†
Chpt 6
- Drops of liquid emerged from the hollow end of the needle and slowly slid down the shaft.†
Chpt 6
- When they emerged they filed through long halls and were dried by the wind.†
Chpt 6
- Hard rules, in belated emergence, give us confidence and restore our bearings.†
Chpt 6emergence = the coming out or appearance of something
- From the quarry, scepters of light emerged at sharp angles, like mineral crystals, and the thicket from which they came was a fume of light.†
Chpt 7emerged = came out of, or appeared
- Huge rectilinear masses of white marble glided at all angles past each other in skew paths of descent, suddenly emerging in full blaze from darkness, and then dimming, only to gain strength again upon reaching the steel frames where they would be cut apart in the glare.†
Chpt 7emerging = coming out of, or appearing
- Patterns and cross-patterns emerged in their excited conversation, music extracted from the gossip of the rocks.†
Chpt 7emerged = came out of, or appeared
- Alessandro wore a black robe, its only decoration his head emerging from the flat collar.
Chpt 7 *emerging = coming out
- The same breeze that moved the branches whipped satin flags on staffs bent forward as if in a charge, and carried the small puffs of smoke that emerged from the rifle barrels up and over the heads of the crowd.†
Chpt 7emerged = came out of, or appeared
- In summer, emerging from a deep forest, he would hold fast in the sudden revelation of a sunlit peak, or watch from above as mist traveled through a valley as if it were possessed of human tenderness.†
Chpt 7emerging = coming out of, or appearing
- At the same time, the main body of Austrians emerged from forward trenches onto open ground.†
Chpt 7emerged = came out of, or appeared
- As the brigade heard the Austrians breathing and watched them emerge from the smoke they tried to move to either side, but their own lines had curled into flanks and they had to fall back.†
Chpt 7
- After the needle emerged, the stitch was tied, and Alessandro shuddered in fear of the next.†
Chpt 7emerged = came out of, or appeared
- A staff sergeant emerged every half hour to tell Alessandro that he had to wait another half hour.†
Chpt 7
- For several kilometers it was buried in the snow, until it emerged at headquarters.†
Chpt 7
- The barber cut his hair, Alessandro washed it three times, and he emerged from the tub as if he had been groomed to appear before God.†
Chpt 8
- The clerks disappeared into a dark forest of iron racks, and emerged with arms full of clothing or linen.†
Chpt 8
- They winked, their wings fluttered like the wings of hummingbirds, and the sinuous patterns that emerged from the thousands of abrupt beats were like the magical reversals of a rapidly spinning wheel.†
Chpt 8
- The lower part looked like a balcony at the opera and was covered with loose mottled skin and moles from which emerged tufts of coarse black hair.†
Chpt 8
- When they didn't see Alessandro emerge from his row with the grindings, they thought that he was working slowly.†
Chpt 8
- In tireless variety, the painter's subjects reflected what seemed to Alessandro to be their conviction that they had alighted upon the earth only momentarily after emerging from a storm of souls.†
Chpt 8emerging = coming out of, or appearing
- To see the shoots emerge from the earth; to see the pine boughs, which I keep in clean trim, wave against the blue sky; and to see the children of the house as they grow with the tender illusion that this is theirs, is a cause of great satisfaction.†
Chpt 9
- Imagine then that, by the grace of God, the soldier would lose his detachment, and that, by the grace of God, the storm from which he had emerged would pass, and that by the grace of God the child in the woman's arms was his.†
Chpt 10emerged = came out of, or appeared
Definition:
to come out, appear, or become prominent