Sir John Pleydell raised his eyes and looked at his fellow countryman with a dawning interest.

This would have been epigrammatic, and at the same time it might have quenched dawning interest in the stranger.

Gradually Paul thawed a little, and made one or two suggestions which betrayed a deep knowledge and a dawning interest.

Then she turned large, pleading eyes upon her father; he had shown a dawning interest in the subject of white fox furs.

"Indeed," he said, the dawning interest deepening in his face; "what are they?"

"Sally Burwell was telling me," said Tom, a dawning interest in his face, "she had tried to persuade her."