He was gaining some proficiency, however, he felt.
"You must bear up, sir, if you please--bear up until you see you're gaining."
All through the prayers and psalms I had fought a desperate fight without gaining a single inch.
Yet every few hours we all knew just which ship was gaining and it was really a most exciting race.
This, reckoning his loss, and what he had missed gaining, made the difference of a million to Danglars.
"I'll risk that," said the child, excited at the prospect of gaining the side of Cap'n Bill in this adventurous way.
"I am the wife of a poor farmer," began the woman, speaking softly and with some hesitation, but gaining strength as she proceeded.
Everybody has remarked that in our time, and especially in France, this passion for equality is every day gaining ground in the human heart.
At last Mohammed's enemies became so afraid of the success he was gaining that they decided they must have his life at all costs, and a plot was hatched against him.
We had heard of missionaries in India, China, and elsewhere, who had worked for many years without gaining converts; but we did not believe that this was God's will for us.