Example Sentences

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She would not yet yield to the dreadful truth, yet even now terror was clutching at her throat, strangling her; and the cold drops were beading her brow.

From The Sky Line of Spruce by Marshall, Edison

By the time she did grasp it, her knees were beading weakly beneath the weight of her body.

From Lonesome Land by Bower, B. M.