behold
verb (used with object)
to observe; look at; see.
am beholding
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present progressiveof behold (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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For Brutus sake, I am beholding to you 4 What does he say of Brutus?
From Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Grant mercy, said Sir Launcelot, of your good comfort, for in my great distress, my fair nephew, ye comfort me greatly, and much I am beholding unto you.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
But I am beholding to him for a life And he may brag he gave your grace a wife.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
Without doubt, I must have perpetrated great sins in my former lives, since I am beholding, O Keshava, my sons and grandsons and brothers all slain by foes.'
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
I am beholding to you, But then it seems I have lost a Lover of you.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers
