All 12 Uses of
subside
in
War and Peace
- But what is best of all," he went on, his excitement subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, "is that the sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes stayed his hand.†
Chpt 2
- It had grown so dark that one could not distinguish the uniforms ten paces off, and the firing had begun to subside.†
Chpt 2
- It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm.†
Chpt 2
- When the voices subsided, the footmen cleared away the broken glass and everybody sat down again, smiling at the noise they had made and exchanging remarks.†
Chpt 4
- Then he slammed the door, sent for Mademoiselle Bourienne, and subsided into his study.†
Chpt 8
- There was a rustling among the crowd and it again subsided, so that Pierre distinctly heard the pleasantly human voice of the Emperor saying with emotion: "I never doubted the devotion of the Russian nobles, but today it has surpassed my expectations.†
Chpt 9
- Toward dusk the cannonade began to subside.†
Chpt 10
- The cook's moans had now subsided.†
Chpt 10 *
- Toward midnight the voices began to subside, a cock crowed, the full moon began to show from behind the lime trees, a fresh white dewy mist began to rise, and stillness reigned over the village and the house.†
Chpt 10
- The storm-tossed sea of European history had subsided within its shores and seemed to have become calm.†
Chpt 15
- The flood of nations begins to subside into its normal channels.†
Chpt 15
- The counter movement reaches the starting point of the first movement in the west—Paris—and subsides.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(subside as in: her anger subsided) become less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps going away entirely