OBS. 2.—­Verbs of this form have sometimes a passive signification; as, “The books are now selling.”—­Allen’s Gram., p. 82.  “As the money was paying down.”—­Ainsworth’s Dict., w. As.  “It requires no motion in the organs whilst it is forming.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 8.  “Those works are long forming which must always last.”—­Dr. Chetwood.  “While the work of the temple was carrying on.”—­Dr. J. Owen.  “The designs of Providence are carrying on.”—­Bp.  Butler.  “A scheme, which has been carrying on, and is still carrying on.”—­Id., Analogy, p. 188.  “We are permitted to know nothing of what is transacting in the regions above us.”—­Dr. Blair.  “While these things were transacting in Germany.”—­Russell’s Modern Europe, Part First, Let. 59.  “As he was carrying to execution, he demanded to be heard.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, Vol. i, p. 163.  “To declare that the action was doing or done.”—­Booth’s Introd., p. 28.  “It is doing by thousands now.”—­Abbott’s Young Christian, p. 121.  “While the experiment was making, he was watching every movement.”—­Ib., p. 309.  “A series of communications from heaven, which had been making for fifteen hundred years.”—­Ib., p. 166.  “Plutarch’s Lives are re-printing.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 64.  “My Lives are reprinting.”—­DR. JOHNSON:  Worcester’s Univ. and Crit.  Dict., p. xlvi.  “All this has been transacting within 130 miles of London.”—­BYRON:  Perley’s Gram., p. 37.  “When the heart is corroding by vexations.”—­Student’s Manual, p. 336.  “The padlocks for our lips are forging.”—­WHITTIER:  Liberator, No. 993.  “When his throat is cutting.”—­Collier’s Antoninus.  “While your story is telling.”—­Adams’s Rhet., i, 425.  “But the seeds of it were sowing some time before.”—­Bolingbroke, on History, p. 168.  “As soon as it was formed, nay even whilst it was forming.”—­Ib., p. 163.  “Strange schemes of private ambition were formed and forming there.”—­Ib., p. 291.  “Even when it was making and made.”—­Ib., 299.  “Which have been made and are making.”—­HENRY CLAY:  Liberator, ix, p. 141.  “And they are in measure sanctified, or sanctifying, by the power thereof.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 537.  “Which is now accomplishing amongst the uncivilized countries