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  • The danger would come from looking too closely and seeing too much — from having him dwindle, and herself along with him.†   (source)
  • Then Claude drove off, taillights dwindling as he topped the rise south of town.†   (source)
  • I could still feel his spit in my mouth, and the respite the hand sanitizer had provided was dwindling away.†   (source)
  • My island dwindled behind.†   (source)
  • It might be the day before Christmas, but our tree would be piled high with the trendiest gifts even as our family savings dwindled from very little to nothing, then from nothing to something less than that.†   (source)
  • Their numbers dwindle, which only makes it harder to escape the watchful eye of the SS.†   (source)
  • But our savings are already dwindling.†   (source)
  • One by one he heard the Gladers' dwindling shouts and hoots up ahead.†   (source)
  • Halliday's Easter egg gradually moved into the realm of urban legend, and the ever-dwindling tribe of gunters gradually became the object of ridicule.†   (source)
  • My business dwindles daily.†   (source)
  • When he looked back the old man had set out with his cane, tapping his way, dwindling slowly on the road behind them like some storybook peddler from an antique time, dark and bent and spider thin and soon to vanish forever.†   (source)
  • Gradually, our numbers begin to dwindle, and it's just me and Uriah and Drew.†   (source)
  • There was much to remember about that time, and much to tell, but the moon in its nightly travels would dwindle, disappear, and fatten again before their stories were entirely told.†   (source)
  • And the English language dwindled to a single word, repeated over and over: "Congratulations!"†   (source)
  • But when the supply of unrestored houses in the historic district began to dwindle, the next logical step was to restore the houses in the neighboring Victorian district.†   (source)
  • But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life.†   (source)
  • Below them the trees of the mountain dwindled, became sparse, were replaced by bushes and then small, dry grasses, and then vegetation ceased entirely and there were only rocks, points and peaks of rock, sharp and dangerous.†   (source)
  • The fire had dwindled to embers; a cold gray light seeped in through her curtains.†   (source)
  • World interest in Vatican events seemed to have dwindled in the last few years.†   (source)
  • I press my hands against my head and rock back and forth, and I have this weird sensation of floating above my body, and then I'm rocketing into the sky at a thousand miles an hour and watching myself dwindle into a tiny spot before the immensity of the Earth swallows me.†   (source)
  • It presented a face of definite elegance to the street, although behind that wings and ells dwindled quickly in formality until the house ended in a big plain barn.†   (source)
  • Its deafening roar dwindled to a distant rumbling thunder.†   (source)
  • Above me, I hear the old pipes shake into action with a thunk! and then the water running in my sink dwindles to a trickle.†   (source)
  • Over his shoulder, back in the ballroom, the receiving line dwindles.†   (source)
  • He could work with only one assumption in his head—after almost seven years of ever more dwindling contact since late 1975, what my parents would hope for most was a body or the news that Mr. Harvey had been found.†   (source)
  • He thumbed through his dwindling stack of orange and blue money.†   (source)
  • As June turned to early July, my morale dwindled.†   (source)
  • As their lives in New England swell with fellow Bengali friends, the members of that other, former life, those who know Ashima and Ashoke not by their good names but as Monu and Mithu, slowly dwindle.†   (source)
  • Finally the laughter dwindled and stopped.†   (source)
  • Some have gone without heat as our energy supplies dwindle.†   (source)
  • And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in beatific silence, all dwindled away to peace.†   (source)
  • PARRIS, with dwindling conviction now: A precaution only.†   (source)
  • He twisted his head sharply round and saw a small black point dwindling rapidly in the distance behind them, and it took him several seconds to realize what had happened.†   (source)
  • Every so often my way dwindled or closed up unexpectedly and in my ears a roaring crowd noise, I wasn't sure where it came from.†   (source)
  • Then he was where nothing could be felt or heard other than the dwindling sound that might have been the plane or his own screaming.†   (source)
  • Holly sighed, turning away from the already dwindling blue-rinse.†   (source)
  • It gave Jack a curious shrinking feeling, as if his life force had dwindled to a mere spark while the hotel and the grounds had suddenly doubled in size and become sinister, dwarfing them with sullen, inanimate power.†   (source)
  • It frightened me to see our number dwindling.†   (source)
  • The horses' hooves clacked sharply over gravel, and the road dwindled to a skinny trail as it skirted the base of Utgard.†   (source)
  • In the last months our government paychecks have dwindled from almost nothing to nothing.†   (source)
  • And their numbers were dwindling.†   (source)
  • Kassad thrusts quickly now, the universe contracting as sensation expands, senses dwindling as she closes warm and wet and tight around him.†   (source)
  • With dwindling hope, my eyes scoured the rest of the cafeteria, hoping to find him alone, waiting for me.†   (source)
  • He pushed his right shoulder up under my left arm to bear some of my fast-dwindling weight, and I half hobbled, half ran, hall fell down the hill.†   (source)
  • As time wore on and the inquiries dwindled, Holmes modified the story a bit.†   (source)
  • After a while, the smiling dwindled.†   (source)
  • As my year in the tenth grade at Big Creek dwindled to days, Mr. Turner held one of his few command performances in the school auditorium.†   (source)
  • To either side of the franchise ghettos, the loglo dwindles across a few shallow layers of development and into a surrounding dimness that is burst here and there by the blaze of a security spotlight in someone's back yard.†   (source)
  • The lights dwindle as the city gives way to the plains; at the horizon the land looks darker than the sky.†   (source)
  • Heinrich kept watching through the rear window, taking up his binoculars as the scene dwindled in the distance.†   (source)
  • It was a small room, with a window that overlooked the dwindling, somewhat neglected rubber plantation that Reverend E. John Ipe had bought from a neighbor.†   (source)
  • So our numbers slowly dwindle.†   (source)
  • "Can't spare any time, either," Wilem said into his rapidly dwindling meat pie.†   (source)
  • They'd been on Earth less than a week, and already their rations were dwindling.†   (source)
  • Up they climbed, following the guide poles until the ledge dwindled to a narrow lip at the mouth of a dark crevasse.†   (source)
  • The somewhat bewildered remnants of the class, which had dwindled to a third of its size, went on their own across the street for coffee.†   (source)
  • Down the mud flats small fountains erupted, dozens of them, spurting two feet or more, then again, then lower, then dwindling and stopping.†   (source)
  • Alternative offers on the philosophical market have mushroomed in the wake of the dwindling support for Christianity.†   (source)
  • I could sense the boy's interest dwindle as the pull of his mother increased.†   (source)
  • Now the number is less than sixty, with only a handful of apprentices, and it dwindles further every day—because of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.†   (source)
  • None of us had any money, and the dwindling income from the farm was being stretched mighty thin across five families.†   (source)
  • The Asian population dwindled before my eyes.†   (source)
  • Setting up routine housekeeping with Paul hadn't led to a dwindling of affection.†   (source)
  • I won't have to put up as much money as I thought—the gap between income and expenses is dwindling."†   (source)
  • Our family had begun to dwindle, along with the entire camp population.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she raises her face, takes a deep breath, and checks out the restaurant's dwindling occupancy, but aside from this she maintains her concentration on her book.†   (source)
  • As the auction progressed, and Mr. Clutter's worldly domain dwindled, gradually vanished, Paul Helm, remembering the burial of the murdered family, said, "It's like a second funeral."†   (source)
  • That left Josie and Drew and Emma and Brady: a posse that had dwindled to such a degree that you could barely call them a posse at all anymore.†   (source)
  • Dwindling food and supplies, no reinforcements coming.†   (source)
  • The daily reminders of his love dwindled.†   (source)
  • The music from the night club dwindled as they walked away from it, toward Benno's.†   (source)
  • Too soon, the sun lay orange and cool on the evening horizon, and the women knew summer was dwindling.†   (source)
  • Then he turned and tossed the dwindled bindle at my feet.†   (source)
  • I race past all of them, down Serra's main thoroughfare, through the dwindling crowds of Execution Square, and up the cobbled streets of the Illustrian Quarter.†   (source)
  • If we keep him on the ward I am certain his brashness will subside, his self-made rebellion will dwindle to nothing, and"-she smiles, knowing something nobody else does-"that our redheaded hero will cut himself down to something the patients will all recognize and lose respect for: a braggart and a blowhard of the type who may climb up on a soapbox and shout for a following, the way we've all seen Mr. Cheswick do, then back down the moment there is any real danger to him personally."†   (source)
  • Attendance at the old Clarkston Baptist Church dwindled from around seven hundred to fewer than a hundred as many white residents left town.†   (source)
  • She gestured to the dwindling refreshments on the table.†   (source)
  • Since high school, when she discovered boys and beer-not necessarily in that order-Kirsten's focus on modeling had dwindled consider-ably.†   (source)
  • The Camp population continued to dwindle, with many empty beds.†   (source)
  • As on the opening day of hunting season, outside considerations were dwindling away.†   (source)
  • But in the late seventies a bad economy took a toll on construction in Arkansas, the main source of income for Larry, and the family's savings dwindled.†   (source)
  • And even then, not much fast-dwindling sheep ever survived to reach the mouth of the family's fourth child.†   (source)
  • After about three years or so of Hagar's on-again-off-again passion, her refusals dwindled until finally, by the time he'd hit his father, they were nonexistent.†   (source)
  • I knew my days of being able to go out in the world were dwindling.†   (source)
  • I listen to everyone talk until the conversation dwindles and the coffee pot is empty.†   (source)
  • Anyway, even though his messages had dwindled down from like a zillion (meaning twenty or so) a day, to two or three, I still didn't feel like leaving my phone on and being bothered by him.†   (source)
  • They seldom now reach three feet; but they hive dwindled, they say, and in ancient days they were taller.†   (source)
  • He noticed that, despite the fact that he was constantly hatching new schemes, his finances seemed to have been dwindling since Clara's death; still, this caused him no undue alarm because he supposed that it was part of the natural order of things that she had breathed good luck into his life and that she could hardly continue to help him after her death.†   (source)
  • As I stared across the table at Kate, stared over the glowing wick of a dwindling candle, I was reminded of Casanova again.†   (source)
  • My world has dwindled to just this room and this bed.†   (source)
  • But with Mia's contact dwindling, I needed answers.†   (source)
  • Not a single green leaf remained on the dark circle of trees now edging the dwindling pool.†   (source)
  • Just as the tide shifted in favor of a dwindling population, someone would land a trophy and the debate would fire up again.†   (source)
  • Cesar was happy to see the boys eating heartily, but with every extra helping came the reality of dwindling reserves and the likelihood that they'd soon run out of money-an enemy they couldn't defeat on the baseball diamond.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, correspondence from Jefferson had dwindled to a standstill.†   (source)
  • To the east, high plains dwindled into an arid flatness.†   (source)
  • The distance — and the difference — between us dwindled and vanished.†   (source)
  • Then she turned her head to look over his shoulder, and the Thief's hopes dwindled.†   (source)
  • Our ranks would dwindle while theirs grew stronger.†   (source)
  • And the size of the protests dwindled.†   (source)
  • The editorial said that at a time of dwindling production, shrinking markets and vanishing opportunities to make a living, it was unfair to let one man hoard several business enterprises, while others had none; it was destructive to let a few corner all the resources, leaving others no chance; competition was essential to society, and it was society's duty to see that no competitor ever rose beyond the range of anybody who wanted to compete with him.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon, the business in the marketplace has begun to dwindle, and several of the exhibitors have packed their goods.†   (source)
  • Whatever the case, it had been nearly two grunts and a loud dwindling sigh before he realized someone else was in the room sitting in one of the broad velvet-seated oak chairs by the fire.†   (source)
  • Most public dialogue is now propelled by media outlets owned by a dwindling number of multinational corporations.†   (source)
  • Here is the great secret, the great mystery to an immigrant's success, the dwindle of irredeemable hours beneath the cheap tube lights.†   (source)
  • Let England have its navigation and fleet—let Scotland have its navigation and fleet—let Wales have its navigation and fleet—let Ireland have its navigation and fleet—let the four parts of the British empire be under four independent governments and they would each dwindle into insignificance.†   (source)
  • They continued to dwindle in numbers, their elders dying as much of sadness as old age.†   (source)
  • They were dwindling away like sands in a glass.†   (source)
  • The story was dwindling.†   (source)
  • In fact, I believe we have us enough big cities, and a dwindling number of places like right here.†   (source)
  • Some reporters took time to dig out sense of figures and tackled Prof on glaring discrepancy: "Professor de la Paz, here you say that grain shipments will dwindle away through failure of natural resources and that by 2082 Luna won't even be able to feed its own people.†   (source)
  • As the song says, my days are dwindling down, but not millions of others!†   (source)
  • He'd been home consulting for seven years, each year with dwindling revenue.†   (source)
  • Several of them went through the same cycle: a father with a love for the outdoors starts a company, it has some success in the beginning, but if the next generation doesn't pick up the torch, and they just dwindle back down to where they first started, with a couple of guys making duck calls, or they fade away altogether.†   (source)
  • It was still impossible to entirely do without them, but they were …. dwindling The death toll had still been staggering.†   (source)
  • By the time he'd started running, though, Grover and Ralph had already turned the corner; all he got for his efforts was the dwindling sound of the pair of them, laughing.†   (source)
  • In all those paths, the Red men dwindled, confined to tiny preserves of desolate land, until the whole land was White, and therefore brutalized into submission, stripped and cut and ravished, giving vast amounts of food that was only an imitation of the true harvest, poisoned into life by alchemical trickery.†   (source)
  • Never before had I wanted to give someone the best, but tonight I wanted to give Barbara everything my dwindling money could buy.†   (source)
  • But on this morning, it seemed to Randy that she had dwindled a bit.†   (source)
  • It faded swiftly away Into a banshee wail, an ululation that dwindled and died, yet was repeated a moment later from a more distant source.†   (source)
  • "Wait," he smiled, and dwindled down the hall.†   (source)
  • Her thought processes dwindled, ceased.†   (source)
  • HELEN plunges her hand into the dwindling water, spells into her own palm.†   (source)
  • She had only to drink the whole bottle and she would dwindle and disappear and cease to exist.†   (source)
  • As he dwindled away he held his marble pose.†   (source)
  • The reserves of grain I had put by began to dwindle despite my care.†   (source)
  • I looked down through the yard and the usual crowd seemed to have dwindled a little, I could not think who was out.†   (source)
  • Charlie was fighting to prevent another recruit to the growing army of poor whites, who seem to respectable white people so much more shocking (though not pathetic, for they are despised and hated for their betrayal of white standards, rather than pitied) than all the millions of black people who are crowded into the slums or on to the dwindling land reserves of their own country.†   (source)
  • Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow.   (source)
  • The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither,   (source)
  • You are not without the capacity of veneration, and faith and hope, and conscience and reason, and every other requisite to a Christian's character, if you choose to employ them; but all our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil, till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.   (source)
  • As the last rays of daylight dwindled and disappeared, absolute blackness settled down on Treasure Island.   (source)
  • Support for the legislation is dwindling.
  • the world's dwindling population of sperm whales
  • I nod and grab a red shirt from the dwindling pile of clothes.†   (source)
  • If you'll excuse me…… " Edward turned abruptly and stalked away through the dwindling crowd.†   (source)
  • Wendy had often joked about her dwindling sex drive.†   (source)
  • It dwindled to a snore and then to a drone and was finally gone.†   (source)
  • I stood there as the third bell rang and the crowds dwindled.†   (source)
  • Eliza was more concerned about the dwindling supply of medicines, the mercury and calomel.†   (source)
  • He's one of the few species that doesn't limit reproduction in the face of dwindling resources.†   (source)
  • He saw little of the dwindling winter daylight.†   (source)
  • As the ground dwindled away, Eragon took a deep breath and hugged her neck tightly.†   (source)
  • But then, I didn't need to remind Morrie of his dwindling time.†   (source)
  • In Cange at least, the effects of dwindling aid seemed plain.†   (source)
  • Twice in all my days I had seen her dwindling behind me.†   (source)
  • His four hours of sleep have dwindled down to two and then to nothing.†   (source)
  • I knew he was completely out of strike funds and the commodity food from the state was dwindling.†   (source)
  • The momentary vision and faith that had come to Meg dwindled.†   (source)
  • The sound of the snowmobile's engine dwindled until it was lost in the ceaseless roar of the wind.†   (source)
  • Little by little, the sounds dwindled and died, until at last there was only the wolf.†   (source)
  • As the ground dwindled away beneath him, he watched Brom gallop along the road.†   (source)
  • The goddess on her lonely promontory, her lover dwindling in the distance.†   (source)
  • The voices were fainter as the light dwindled ahead of her.†   (source)
  • But contributions were already dwindling by the time of Aristide's reelection, in late 2000.†   (source)
  • I mourn my dwindling time, but I cherish the chance it gives me to make things right.†   (source)
  • His powerful five foot, seven inch boxer's body had dwindled to a virtual skeleton.†   (source)
  • In a few more moments it would be past him, and dwindling.†   (source)
  • His bones sank away beneath his clothes; his clothes then shrank down to fit his dwindling frame.†   (source)
  • Her eyes seemed to shine in the dwindling light, bright and birdlike, like a wizened owl's.†   (source)
  • The sounds of shouting dwindled away slowly.†   (source)
  • Not to mention the threat of radiation outside—though Alec thinks it's finally dwindling.†   (source)
  • The ticking of the clocks reminded him a man's life was short and ever dwindling.†   (source)
  • The last time he'd visited, two years earlier, the population had dwindled to under a thousand.†   (source)
  • 'I can see nothing away north or west but grass dwindling into mist,' said Gimli.†   (source)
  • My mother eyed her dwindling milk supply but said nothing.†   (source)
  • Maybe I just couldn't resist another hit of my dwindling drug supply.†   (source)
  • Eragon stood there until she dwindled from sight and he could no longer touch her mind.†   (source)
  • But the hope that kept the grief at bay is dwindling, slipping away with each word she speaks.†   (source)
  • This is a ridiculous waste of our precious and dwindling time.†   (source)
  • "You see what is happening," he murmured, stooping low to show Max the dwindling pile.†   (source)
  • Its bottom was less stony and more earthy, and slowly its sides dwindled to mere banks.†   (source)
  • We know how your supplies have dwindled.†   (source)
  • Without looking at the others, he sprinted down the white bank and into the dwindling water.†   (source)
  • His smile dwindled as he looked at me and swallowed.†   (source)
  • Supplies had been dwindling; this would be a long, thorough trip.†   (source)
  • When I went out onto my balcony, I saw the crowd had dwindled to about twenty people or so.†   (source)
  • Three more prizes were taken before Yaros dwindled off their sterns.†   (source)
  • He came to a path, the dwindling ruins of a road of long ago.†   (source)
  • The sound of their chanting slowly dwindled away and died.†   (source)
  • Storm's End dwindled behind them, but the red woman seemed unconcerned.†   (source)
  • As Borromeo Castle dwindled behind them, Orik said, "Can you hear my thoughts, Eragon?"†   (source)
  • As their numbers dwindled, the remaining sped up.†   (source)
  • It was only twenty feet away, a dwindling gap no larger than a suitcase.†   (source)
  • They watched the pale rings of light round his lanterns as they dwindled into the foggy night.†   (source)
  • The rain had dwindled to a thin drizzle by the time he reached the gate.†   (source)
  • The Wall was a hundred leagues long and the Watch sadly dwindled.†   (source)
  • The sun's final rays dwindled in the great rose window.†   (source)
  • One of the lakes was just ahead, but their altitude was dwindling rapidly.†   (source)
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