behold
verb (used with object)
to observe; look at; see.
were beholding
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past progressiveof behold.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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And many women were beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him; among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.
From Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
As if I were beholding him from a great distance, I could see Dick standing in the lamplight in front of Leila Burton.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
He just has a way of smiling at one, as if he were beholding an infinitesimal infant totally incapable of understanding.
From Sweetapple Cove by George Van Schaick
It was the burial of this child, poor little Lilly Kingsley, which Ruth and her grandfather were beholding from the shadowy church-porch on that lovely June morning.
From Stories of Many Lands by Grace Greenwood
My good aunt observed to me at dinner that I seemed continually expecting something, and gazed at the cabbage pie as though I were beholding it for the first time in my life.
From The Jew and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
