The pen became a clarion. [ Longfellow ]

Aiming at brevity, I became obscure. [ Horace ]

No good man ever became suddenly rich. [ Syrus ]

One in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith became
A passionate intuition. [ Wordsworth ]

O liberty.
Parent of happiness, celestial born
When the first man became a living soul;
His sacred genius thou. [ Dyer ]

Since every Jack became a gentleman,
There's many a gentle person made a Jack. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

No man ever yet became great by imitation. [ Johnson ]

Zeal, then, not charity, became the guide. [ Pope ]

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hope, folding her wings, looked backward, and became regret. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

To live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. [ Hooker ]

No man ever became, or can become, largely rich merely by labour and economy. [ John Ruskin ]

Midas longed for gold. He got gold, so that whatever he touched became gold; and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it. [ Carlyle ]

He laid him down and slept, and from his side a woman in her magic beauty rose: dazzled and charmed, he called that woman bride, and his first sleep became his last repose. [ Besser ]