was mellowing
- past progressive of mellow.
Example Sentences
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But it was agreed that he was mellowing, and it was considered likely that the Court would have as much influence on him as he had on it.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Pink There had been signs that George Bernard Shaw was mellowing in his lonesome latter years.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was six o'clock, the light was mellowing, and a thrush singing with all its own wonderful passion and rapture on the lawn.
From Five Nights by Cross, Victoria
Gerald saw how the afternoon was mellowing toward sunset....
From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
The peaceful and retired seclusion amid which the honoured evening of Dr Haynes' life was mellowing to its close was destined to be disturbed, nay, shattered, by a tragedy as appalling as it was unexpected.
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
