Example Sentences

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Her people dwell under institutions which have been ripening for two hundred and fifty years; but in the West, in the heart of the Continent, and in the South we are laying foundations still.

From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by Beers, R. W.

Friend the Member for South Lancashire would not admit to us that on this very question of the Irish Church his opinions have been greatly expanded, and have been ripening for a series of years.

From Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 by Bright, John

It must of course have been ripening in his mind some good while before he thus suddenly and swiftly cast it into shape.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney