All 4 Uses of
ebb
in
The Fountainhead
- Something ebbed from his stunned admiration.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- The ebbing motion of light flowed in controlled discipline, like the sentences of a speech giving voice to the changing facets of the walls.†
Chpt 2.11
- She felt slack and empty, losing her identity in a painless ebb, content to vanish and let nothing remain defined save that particular earth in the window.†
Chpt 3.5
- Wynand's eyes seemed whiter than usual, as if the blue had ebbed from the iris, two white ovals, luminous on his face.†
Chpt 4.3
Definition:
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(ebb) decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide