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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Thus, in the olden time, must they have looked who thought they were beholding a miracle; and even now, when I write of these things, feeble as my words seem, I tremble with emotion.
From Waldfried A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
Now had Ralph sat quiet while this talk was going on, and as if he heeded not, and his eyes were set as if he were beholding something far away.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William
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 Garnett, Constance
But lo, as I looked, his clenched hands were loosened, His lips grew all soft, and his eyes were beholding Strange things we beheld not about and above him.
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William
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 O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
