a voluntary act on the part of the seldom preceded by any qualifying word. poet; but not He turned a great poet. subject. This noun is Thus we say He turned to become. i. When it became dark, he lighted the rushlight. VAN. FAIR, I, CH. VII, 71. The horses became less and less capable of control. CHUZ., CH. XLII, 328a. He became literally ill from home-sickness. LIFE OF CH. BRONTË, 101. When one fib becomes due, as it were, you must forge another to take up the oid acceptance. VAN. FAIR, II, CH. XXXI, 343. His descendants in the male line became extinct. NOTES AND QUER. ii. The interest would not be paid to her until she became of age. PEND., II, CH. XX, 220. Before he was aware of the nature of his situation, he became really in love. SKETCH-BOOK, PR. OF THE VILL., 1376. iii. The name of Figs, which had been a by word of reproach, became as respectable and popular a nick-name as any other in use in the school. VAN. FAIR, I, CH. V, 47. to get. i. Mr. Tulliver, getting warm, declared Mrs. Glegg might do as she liked about calling in her money. MILL ON THE FLOSS, CH. VII, 65. It was getting dark. OLD CHAP. I am getting old and shaky. HEREW., 27a. He has got rid of his absurd wardrobe. LEWES 1). ii. They got to words and at length to blows. DEEMST., CH. XXIV, 171. LLOYD, NORTH. ENGL., 120. It's getting near tea-time. iii. She had got to be fond of me. GREEN, LADY ISABELLA, Ch. V. MRS. OLIPH., NEIGHB. ON THE iv. When I got to be a man and lost my illusions. GLOW-WORM TALES, V. I, G, 115. It is not quite two years since we got to be friends. BLACKW. MAG. 2). He worked hard and soon got chums with the swells. ILL. SPORT. You must not suppose we got very great friends with Honora vi. "When I was quite a young boy," said Uriah, "I got to know what 'umbleness did." COP., CH. XXXIX, 286a. to By sad experience she gets to look on all mankind as desirous only of robbing and deceiving her. ALL SORTS, CH. XLVII. grow. i. Miss Sedley trembled and grow faint. VAN. FAIR, I. CH. V, 51. My time grows short. CHR. CAR., II, 41. 1) MäтZN., II, 36. 2) MURRAY. The arguments in favour of the construction grow every year more cogent. TIMES. He grew more and more untractable every day. D. HEYL., 109. As her necessities grew greater every year, she had to cast about for some mode of doing something for herself. ib. 102. ii. Katherine fancied that her mother was growing to be like Charlotte. KATH. LAUD, II, Cн. VI, 112. Was it possible that any man could grow to be three inches taller than Mr. Pendennis? PEND, I, CH. III, 32. iii. Old Figs grew to be a name of kindness and endearment. VAN. FAIR, I, CH. V, 51. Now Crawley from being only a brilliant amateur had grown to be iv. That will help us to understand how the love of accumulating money grows an absorbing passion. SIL. MARN., CH. II, 15. v. I speculated how it would look when the youth grew a man. She had also grown to like him. FOR HIS SAKE, I, CH. X, 166. In the following quotation to grow and to become are used as strict synonyms. Laura saw with alarm that the dear friend became every day more languid and weary, and that her pale cheek grew more wan. PEND., I, CH. XXI, 221. to turn. i. Amelia turned so pale at the notion, that Mrs. O'Dowd stopped the young ensign in his story. VAN. FAIR, I, CH. XXXII, 350. I trembled and turned white. COP., CH. III, 216. "What's the matter?" said Uriah, turning of a deadly colour. Cop., Caleb's scanty hairs were turning greyer and more grey. CRICKET, Dolf's heart turned faint within him. D. HEYL., 128. The weather has turned much colder. DAILY CHRON. ii. I hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you? MUCH ADO I, 1. They turned Christian. PLAIN TALES, A, 11. Yon won't have a friend left in the world if you turn poet. Love Would you never think the present made amends for the past? II. The following verbs are, in certain combinations, found to do duty as copulas of the third group: to come, often connected with to be (12, VI). For to come when followed by another infinitive see XVIII, 12. i. We'll see if I can't come square with you. MEES. WILL, CH. VI, 56. When he comes of age, he won't have a shilling. PEND., I, CH. XI, The sum will not come right. MISS MONTGOMERY. I may have dreamed, therefore, some forty thousand dreams, of which two came true. BULW., RIENZI. ii. When her will came to be known, it was seen that scandal had not been so far wrong as usual in giving her out for an arrant miser. AscOTT R. HOPE. When he comes to be a little stronger, who knows what a year or to fall, in many collocations. MURRAY, i. v. fall, 40. See also 12, I. to fall ill (also with to become) (10). ii. The bill falls due at the end of next month. JOHN INGERF., 27 (also with to become) (10). This office falls vacant on January 12, 1900. TIMES. The funds of the Parnellites were falling short. GRAPH. She fell silent. DAV. GRIEVE, III, 157. Our old tramp of steamer fell foul of a timber junk. THe light I am a dangerous fellow to fall foul of. SH. HOLM., II, 71. It fell dead calm. WESTW. HO! CH. XXVIII, 2136. He has been doing so ever since it fell dark. BL. HOUSE, CH. XXXII, Her husband had fallen a victim to his zeal for the public safety. The country would fall a sacrifice to the hostile ambition of the The elder eventually fell heir to a certain estate. HARPER'S MAG. 1). iii. It is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them. PRIDE AND PREJ., CH. I, 8 (also with to become.) (10). I have fallen behind the time. DOMB., CH. IV, 30. (Ik ben mijn tijd ten achteren geraakt.) to go, chiefly with adjectives or equivalent expressions denoting an undesirable state, especially such as denote a disease of the mind or the body; also in to go bail (security). Compare the Dutch dood gaan, failliet gaan. MURRAY, i. v. go, 44, 32, f. See also 12, 1. 1) MURRAY, i. v. fall, 40, b. i. He was like some strange tropical fruit gone bad at the core. KATH. LAUD., I, CH. VIII, 181. The house went instinctively silent. BARRY PAIN, MISS SLATER. He went bankrupt. TEMPLE Bar 1). Fright and anxiety have made strong men go gray in a single night. ib. 1). If the milk is not taken proper care of, it soon goes sour in hot weather. SHELDON 1). I went nigh foolish. HEREW., 19a. Dr. Clark thinks it quite possible she may go out of her mind. He was frantic with vexation when Rebecca went lame. PEND., It was all Dick's fault for being so stupid as to go blind. THE They have gone stone-deaf from the noise. PUNCH. ii. You'll spend your money like a man of spirit, I'll go bail for that. PEND., I, CH. XXX, 322. I'll go bail of that. PEND., I, CH. V, 64. It was but last week he went security for a fellow whose face he scarce knew. GOOD-NAT. MAN, I. to grow up, mostly connected with to be. (12, vi.) ་་་ She was growing up a good child. HEAV. TWINS, I, 7. I am in great hopes that she may grow up to be such another woman as her mother. MAD. LEROUX. to run, especially with adjectives, or equivalent words or phrases, denoting an undesirable state. (12, 1I.) Oldish gentlefolks run fat in general. SIL. MARN., CH. XI, 90. Nor will our cartridges run out. My pocket-money was run out. TIMES. SAM. TITM. CH. II, 21. Certain commodities are running low. Note. To run short, to run low and to run out are also used with the name of a person as subject. The enemy are likely soon to run short of ammunition. DAILY CHRON. to turn out, as in the following quotation: If he'll only turn out a brave, helpful truth-telling Englishman, and a gentleman and a christian, that's all I want. Toм BROWN PT. I, CH. IV, 69. 1) MURRAY. to wax, only in the higher literary style, especially with adjectives 12. denoting anger. You do well to set aside odious comparisons, to wax impatient of that trite twaddle about "nothing newness." LIFE OF Ch. BRONTË. At last he waxed utterly mad. WESTW. Ho! CH. V, 40b. My father waxed hotter and hotter. JOHN HAL., CH. XVI, 159. Take them again; for, to the noble mind, Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. HAML., III, 1. Obs. i. With some of the above verbs the faded meaning in which they occur, makes it possible for them to be used as copulas of two or even three groups. Thus to fall figures among those of the 1st and 2nd. groups, to go among those of the 1st., 2nd. and 3rd groups, to hold among those of the 1st. and 2nd. groups, to run among those of the 1st. and 3rd. groups, to stand among those of the 1st. and 2nd. groups. Also their vague meaning sometimes makes it difficult to decide to which of the three groups they belong, and a good deal might, perhaps, be said for shifting some of the above quotations to a different heading. Even the verb to be sometimes seems to imply a getting into a He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe. Mr. Pendennis never would have permitted his son to be a Reuben strode along so rapidly that she was almost breathless as We meant to be sailors, every one of us. MY FIRST HAPPY CHRISTM., 74. By and by she'll be mistress of Dene Court too. FOR HIS SAKE, Note especially to be dead, which was anciently used in the sense of to become dead to die, and still occurs in the meaning of to have become dead to have died. MURRAY, i. v. dead, 1 d; STOF., TAALST., IX; FYN VAN DRAAT, ENG. STUD., XXVI. But sore weep she if oon of hem were deed. CANT., 1. 148. The lady is dead upon mine accusation. MUCH ADO, V, 1, 249. We have been thinking of marrying her to one of your tenants, whose mother is lately dead. VIC., CH. XVI. |