Both Uses of
ebb
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Consciousness of place came ebbing back to him slowly over a vast tract of time unlit, unfelt, unlived.†
Chpt 3 *
- His own consciousness of language was ebbing from his brain and trickling into the very words themselves which set to band and disband themselves in wayward rhythms: The ivy whines upon the wall, And whines and twines upon the wall, The yellow ivy upon the wall, Ivy, ivy up the wall.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(ebb) decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide