All 4 Uses of
dwindle
in
The House of Mirth
- Here, amid the blaze of crowded baccarat tables, he caught sight of Lord Hubert Dacey, seated with his habitual worn smile behind a rapidly dwindling heap of gold.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- She could not have remained in New York without repaying the money she owed to Trenor; to acquit herself of that odious debt she might even have faced a marriage with Rosedale; but the accident of placing the Atlantic between herself and her obligations made them dwindle out of sight as if they had been milestones and she had travelled past them.†
Chpt 2.2
- In its light everything else dwindled and fell away from her.†
Chpt 2.12
- She had a sense of deeper empoverishment—of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(dwindle) to decrease -- in count or substance