Mary kept weighing herself to see how much _____ she was getting.

The girl was so __________ by the mighty river that she would spend hours sitting on its bank and gazing at the boats and rafts going and coming.

We should do more such exercises in the future, I think, _____ those we did yesterday. 

When we arrived in the deep night, we found there was no food _______ as all the shops were shut.

He was an _____ poet at that time and his _____ poems spread through all the country.