Both Uses of
ebb
in
Bleak House
- The object of her attentions withdrawing for the purpose, Miss Smallweed takes that opportunity of jumbling the remainder of the bread and butter together and launching two or three dirty tea-cups into the ebb-tide of the basin of tea as a hint that she considers the eating and drinking terminated.†
Chpt 19-21
- Howbeit, the day has ebbed away, and it is night in his room before his stertorous breathing lulls or his fixed eyes show any consciousness of the candle that is occasionally passed before them.†
Chpt 55-57 *
Definition:
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(ebb) decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide