gradually-growing

Updated: August 19, 2026

But she is more level-headed than either of them, There's a touch of Trix Esmond, too." The sense of the success which followed her, and the gradually-growing excitement of looking on at her light whirls of dance, the carnation of her cheek, and the laughter and pleasure she drew about her, had affected him in a way by which he was secretly a little exhilarated.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Shuttle