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1 The natives came by degrees to be less fearful of danger from me.
2 Both came by degrees to attach more importance to the means than to the end.
3 When Tregear and the election had been sufficiently discussed, they came by degrees to Major Tifto and the two thunderbolts.
4 The constant atmosphere of suspicion and doubt in which he was compelled to remain, came by degrees to distress and anger him.
5 No prominent success was attained on either side; yet the effects of the investment came by degrees to be oppressively felt by the Pompeians.
6 Birotteau, more and more surprised by the successive improvements of the gallery, once so bare, came by degrees to a condition of involuntary envy.
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