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  • But as the day waned, Sylvia still watched the young man with loving admiration.   (source)
    waned = grew smaller
  • Sleep came not near my couch—while the hours ... waned away.   (source)
    waned = gradually declined
  • SUMMER WANED, SEEMING TO evaporate in its own heat.†   (source)
  • Chapter 51 — Waning Moon — 1970†   (source)
  • Her answer was sustained as the numbness of the dark waned and outlined the various shapes, big and small, on the bedside table.†   (source)
  • The fall waned and another Christmas approached, and Phil's family received none of them.†   (source)
  • And in the fireplace itself, in a black pan set on a high wire rack, peanuts roasted over the hickory fire as the waning light of day swiftly deepened into a fine velvet night speckled with white forerunners of a coming snow, and the warm sound of husky voices and rising laughter mingled in tales of sorrow and happiness of days past but not forgotten.†   (source)
  • Doors open and close, the sound of its tiny, immense rage waxes and wanes.†   (source)
  • They'd covered maybe two miles as the light waned.†   (source)
  • In the process, it gradually waned from a full to a half moon, and then a crescent.†   (source)
  • Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate, and our opinions evolve—if not glacially, then at least gradually.†   (source)
  • The wine-bowls emptied and the torches waned.†   (source)
  • Paul's shock at the brazen lies had never waned.†   (source)
  • Since then, interest in the planet had waned dramatically.†   (source)
  • Teabing's look of excitement waned.†   (source)
  • And our tolerance is waning!†   (source)
  • On the way back, Aziza's high-spirited fa9ade waned the closer they got to the orphanage.†   (source)
  • Instead, he found his influence waning with each passing day.†   (source)
  • Dim streaks of light, gray and waning, are filtering in through a nearby window.†   (source)
  • In his waning years— ever watchful that Gravesend Academy devote itself to "pious and charitable purposes"—the Rev. Mr. Hurd was known to patrol Water Street in downtown Gravesend, looking for youthful offenders: specifically, young men who would not doff their hats to him, and young ladies who would not curtsy.†   (source)
  • The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.†   (source)
  • In the waning daylight, he kneels on the hard ground, pulls out the map, and points at our location with his flashlight.†   (source)
  • But the excitement soon waned, and the afternoon seemed to pass like any other at home.†   (source)
  • Not even birdsong breaks the silence, and overhead, the sky darkens, but not from the waning afternoon light.†   (source)
  • They are sitting in the red wingback chairs in the living room in the waning light of late afternoon.†   (source)
  • The intent look in his eyes, even in the waning light, warned her of what was coming.†   (source)
  • She continues to work in the silent house, in the waning light, not bothering to rest, though her wrist has begun to ache, not bothering to get up and turn on the lamp over the table, or the lights on the lawn or in any of the other rooms, until the telephone rings.†   (source)
  • The excitement of being somewhere other than school had started to wane.†   (source)
  • Nine moons had waxed and waned, and Robb had been born in Riverrun while his father still warred in the south.†   (source)
  • Consequently, the enthusiastic welcome of my teachers soon began to wane into resignation and a sort of vague, impersonal regret.†   (source)
  • "So I crossed my heart and hoped to die," Beck told me goodnaturedly as we stood in the blowing snow and waning light.†   (source)
  • Forget me and thy magick shall wane.†   (source)
  • They stood side by side for a moment, watching the wax and wane of the coals of the fire.†   (source)
  • Antonio rubbed his jaw and his smiled waned.†   (source)
  • Light from Farthen Dur's opening waned as the sun crept below the crater rim.†   (source)
  • In the waning light I can see a river curling gently around that seems to cup the city, serving as the border to the east, south and west, and to the north lie hills and trees.†   (source)
  • I caught the sled as it went by and I think I tried to wane at him as we left in the dark.†   (source)
  • They play with her yearning to become one of them, taxing her energies until she begins to wane.†   (source)
  • As the winter of 1959 waned and the snow and ice melted, many miners who had been cut off the year before were called back to the mine.†   (source)
  • Sarariman on subway listen For Sushi K like nuclear fission Fire-breathing lizard Cojiro He my always big-time hero His mutant rap burn down whole block Start investing now Sushi IC stock It on Nikkei stock exchange Waxes; other rappers wane Best investment, make my day Corporation Sushi K Squeaky is walking straight uphill, paralleling a fresh motorcycle track that has cut deeply into the loose yellow soil.†   (source)
  • In fact, the walkout's strength had waned because of Alex's misinformation tactic.†   (source)
  • In the waning moments of twilight, Mack could make out the rocky shore of the lake, not overgrown as he remembered, but beautifully kept and picture perfect.†   (source)
  • "Expulsion repealed," the Chancellor said firmly and I felt Ambrose's satisfaction flicker and wane beside me.†   (source)
  • Working nights is part of the job, but the chances for a column from Little Pedro's are waning, and all the extra time I'm spending on Nathaniel is time I don't get to spend with my family.†   (source)
  • The light was fading rapidly, but by its waning glow he could see Jeremiah's dead face turned toward him, blood still leaking from his open mouth.†   (source)
  • Jamis has been called by Him, by Shai-hulud, who has ordained the phases for the moons that daily wane and—in the end—appear as bent and withered twigs.†   (source)
  • Maria knew that the massive strength of the newborn began to wane around the year mark, and she wanted to act while we were strong.†   (source)
  • Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.†   (source)
  • She smiled and jumped down the three waning steps to join him.†   (source)
  • Back to another waning winter where Giles Dent stood with Ann Hawkins as he stood with Quinn now.†   (source)
  • It is not a remarkable moon, waning, hazy in the cloudy night.†   (source)
  • Away from Paul, her interest in becoming a doctor waned; she really didn't like chemistry.†   (source)
  • But when no body was found and there was no breakthrough in the investigation, interest gradually waned.†   (source)
  • Then, after about a month, the friendship waned.†   (source)
  • Mahtob and I were excited and hungry, but our appetites waned when the pizza was placed in front of us.†   (source)
  • But when the Cold War ended, financial and political support from Washington waned.†   (source)
  • The full moon wanes and returns again.†   (source)
  • The waning of the crack cocaine epidemic in New York was clearly a factor, but then again, it had been in steady decline well before crime dipped.†   (source)
  • The minutes dragged by, and the conversation waned.†   (source)
  • After two hours, when the conversation was beginning to wane, Amparo took advantage of Amaranta's distraction and gave Rebeca a letter.†   (source)
  • It moved around the sky; it waxed and waned.†   (source)
  • But there is some bitter condition he has never been able to name and when he encounters a threat from outside, from the moral wane that is everywhere in effect, he finds it is a balance to this state, a restoring force.†   (source)
  • Miles above us, the moon has started to wane, the edges bitten off, but we bask in its light anyway, howling like wolves.†   (source)
  • Political pressure waned.†   (source)
  • Nothing for half an hour, but my optimism didn't wane.†   (source)
  • Gondor wanes, you say.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the public's interest quickly waned.†   (source)
  • Her eyes glittered with water and fever insanity, and her round face waned into sharp angles.†   (source)
  • As the afternoon wanes, she and the silent Tanya take off for a 4:30 city bus.†   (source)
  • Horace's initial excitement had already waned.†   (source)
  • He was depressed, but as he ate, his original desperation waned, lost its strength, and soon all that was left was melancholy.†   (source)
  • On the wall by the door he'd taped a paper that graphed the waning and disappearance of those terrifying episodes of apnea.†   (source)
  • The next second, the waning sun blinked out.†   (source)
  • They headed down the hill in the afternoon's waning light, Michal first, followed by Tom, and Gabil hopping along to bring up the rear.†   (source)
  • "As you can see," the reporter said, "sentiment in support of Shay Bourne and his unprecedented case to donate his heart is waning in the wake of his hospitalization.†   (source)
  • When the excitement began to wane, Jake stepped away and eased outside.†   (source)
  • I got up from behind the hedge in the waning moon, wet and shaken in the hot air and started out looking for Jack, still turned around in my direction.†   (source)
  • They found the Grandfathers right at the point where you could just see the waning daylight, and Mau began to understand.†   (source)
  • The time for warm-weather campaigning, "the season for action," was fast waning, yet even now he consoled himself with the hope that he had a few more days before the enemy would strike.†   (source)
  • As the U.S. government's patience waned with the despotic military government, as ragged, half-starved Haitians continued to wash up on beaches in Fort Lauderdale, ruining the view from the condo canyons, the forced return of Haiti's Savior seemed to inch closer.†   (source)
  • And so the weeks passed, and the child's chances waned, until the end of the ninth week drew closer and finally just one more day stood between her and a bleak future in a poorhouse.†   (source)
  • The room was filled with a waning glow that turned all it touched to coral and gray.†   (source)
  • It seemed to draw light from the waning sun.†   (source)
  • Jimmy has been with us for some time and he means very well, but the sad truth is that his sense of smell seems to be waning.†   (source)
  • But as death threats against Abraham Lincoln mounted in the waning days of the Civil War, these police officers shifted their protective focus to the president.†   (source)
  • The intensity of her insanity waxes and wanes with no predictable schedule or trigger.†   (source)
  • Its marvelous fertility and brazen health, its deep, brilliant greenness altered and waned almost daily, as winter with its chilly nights and the slow cooling of the Atlantic started to settle into each stem and living thing in the marsh.†   (source)
  • At 3:30, with the winter daylight beginning to wane, Justice Tanny asked Adams to break off his argument and resume it the next day.†   (source)
  • I, Franklin Hata, retired supplier of home medical goods, expatriate and war veteran and now suburban lap swimmer nonpareil, can operate only provisionally at present, even in the wane of my life.†   (source)
  • This was chilling news to southerners who had counted on a waning of the northern will to fight.†   (source)
  • The group from Luskan moved out into the waning sunlight on the street.†   (source)
  • And, if that marketability had waned or the danger increased, could he have killed her?†   (source)
  • After fifteen seconds or so, his strength began to wane.†   (source)
  • By then, my interest in playing football was really beginning to wane.†   (source)
  • Lou didn't feel she would ever be close to any of them, but at least the outright hostility had waned.†   (source)
  • As I looked up at him my sense of exhilaration waned rapidly.†   (source)
  • He had small teeth set in vast expanses of gum; those round ears; and delicate, almost maidenly skin that tended to flush and pale with the waxing and waning of his digestive problems.†   (source)
  • Waxing and waning with a peculiar rhythm, it ascended ever more swiftly into the sky, drawing a fluctuating line of light across the stars.†   (source)
  • He had become quite drunk and his speech was . a little slurred, the freckled indoor face sad and haggard in the waning light.†   (source)
  • After a time, things began to wane.†   (source)
  • As always the wind began to drop as the day waned, but it sometimes took half the night for the dust to settle out of the air.†   (source)
  • But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!†   (source)
  • The flesh waned from his thighs and cheeks.†   (source)
  • His face in the waning afternoon light looked ravaged and abandoned.†   (source)
  • If it looked like the letter C it was waning, Papa had taught her.†   (source)
  • Behind it there was a coldly tender waning of a voice; Aunt Hannah's voice; her mother's.†   (source)
  • And John tried to see through the morning wall, to stare past the bitter houses, to tear the thousand gray veils of the sky away, and look into the heart? that monstrous heart which beat forever, turning the astounded universe, commanding the stars to flee away before the sun's red sandal, bidding the moon to wax and wane, and disappear, and come again; with a silver net holding back the sea, and, out of mysteries abysmal, re-creating, each day, the earth.†   (source)
  • The moon, late-risen and waning, came out of the clouds.†   (source)
  • He saw their yellow eyes waxing and waning in the light, focusing and unfocusing.†   (source)
  • The winds broke up the grey clouds, and a waning moon appeared above the hills between the flying rags.   (source)
    waning = diminishing (the illuminated part is getting smaller each night)
  • He could see the white town of Salinas far out in the flat and the flash of its windows under the waning sun.   (source)
    waning = diminishing or setting
  • At last, to their right, the waning moon arose, and when it came up the wind died down, and the land was still.   (source)
    waning = diminishing
  • ...for the night is waning away   (source)
    waning = diminishing (less of it remaining)
  • As it rose to its highest point, a great waning crescent moon descended slowly in the sky behind it.†   (source)
  • For a moment its shadow bobbed on the wall, waxing and waning.†   (source)
  • Daylight was waning, the weather was worsening, my reserves of strength were nearly gone.†   (source)
  • She was still, and always would be, girded by an orb of curiosity, but even that was waning.†   (source)
  • "It was waning, and didn't rise till after we docked in Barkley.†   (source)
  • He was always alone, even back then, in the waning days of the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • In the waning light, she ran her finger over the yellow legal paper before unfolding the pages.†   (source)
  • He could feel his strength waning, and they still had another giant to deal with.†   (source)
  • And, indeed, a waning moon is rising at that very moment.†   (source)
  • She kept waiting for the power to abate, but it remained at high water with no sign of waning.†   (source)
  • Overhead, the waning moon glowed behind a lens of clouds.†   (source)
  • My patience was not waning, but entirely gone.†   (source)
  • There were many clear stars, but the fast-waning moon would not be seen till late.†   (source)
  • First Saruman was shown that the power of his voice was waning.†   (source)
  • The sky is dimmed of stars and Celia cannot identify their milky lights, their waning conclusions.†   (source)
  • Crying under the waning power of his own notes, or perhaps because he could not sing as he once did.†   (source)
  • The old man swung his legs to the floor and sat up in the waning moon-light.†   (source)
  • Night was waning when Max finally put the visions and whispers to rest.†   (source)
  • One day in the waning years of his life, Red Pollard stopped talking.†   (source)
  • With both windows open wide, the light of the waning moon spilled across the bedchamber.†   (source)
  • The room beyond glowed with the waning light of two torches.†   (source)
  • The rain whipped around him and the waning light made it difficult to see.†   (source)
  • Look for me in Edoras, ere the waning of the moon!†   (source)
  • Cal slipped out the kitchen door and moved through Lee's waning kitchen garden.†   (source)
  • The afternoon, partly overcast now, is waning.†   (source)
  • I move the eggcup a little, so it's now in the watery sunlight that comes through the window and falls, brightening, waning, brightening again, on the tray.†   (source)
  • "I'd prefer not to share that, as the information is classified," Sato said, patience clearly waning.†   (source)
  • There was half a moon, and I couldn't remember whether it was waxing or waning; and as we went down the driveway between the rows of maples and past the orchard, I looked behind me, and saw the house standing there all peaceful and lighted up by the moonlight, as if it was gently glowing.†   (source)
  • She's a little paler than other girls I see in the sector, and has large dark eyes that shine with flecks of gold in the waning light.†   (source)
  • We'd been through too much together for me to even contemplate leaving the service in those waning days of 2001.†   (source)
  • -Stilgar's preface to "Muad'Dib, the Man" by the Princess Irulan Stilgar's troop returning to the sietch with its two strays from the desert climbed out of the basin in the waning light of the first moon.†   (source)
  • She tore her coat from the hook and walked out the door and in the waning afternoon light led them around the corner to the woodpile.†   (source)
  • The pile was waning.†   (source)
  • This time the contact actually makes some detectable sounds, none of which can be called pleasant, and my instructor's interest seems to be waning.†   (source)
  • Girl children had their throats cut and their blood drained out to replenish the five waning moons, so they would not fade and disappear forever.†   (source)
  • He sat me on the table, unwrapped the tourniquet and the soggy dressing, observed with interest the waning spurt of the little blood left inside me, and hauled out his suture kit.†   (source)
  • Both boys ran in at the Griever and jumped feetfirst at the creature, kicking out at the last second with every waning bit of strength.†   (source)
  • After a while her eyes narrowed, then opened wide, then narrowed more, the liquid glint of them waxing and waning in the darkness.†   (source)
  • After supper the boys had come out in the day's waning light to stand solemnly around the charred and blackened nest.†   (source)
  • With daylight waning, Schoening and Madsen therefore began dragging Ngawang laboriously down the mountain, using the deflated Gamow Bag as a makeshift toboggan, while guide Neal Beidleman and a team of Sherpas climbed as quickly as they could from Base Camp to meet them.†   (source)
  • As she ate, Savannah stared at the sea, and in the waning light I found myself thinking that she seemed even more at home here than I did.†   (source)
  • The veterinarian showed him how to administer intramuscular injections of sedative, as well as the older skill—waning even then in veterinary practice—of the ether drip.†   (source)
  • Ryan lay in the waning morning hours, ignored the ache in his heart, and dreamed of dealing with Burt.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist's waning interest in the Wennerström affair coincided with Salander's disappearance from his life.†   (source)
  • There was a fire burning, and the room's pine walls warmed to a rosy glow as the waning sunlight streamed through the open window.†   (source)
  • They embraced for a long time, holding each other close in the waning sunlight, and for an instant he thought he felt her tremble.†   (source)
  • There's a kind of hush and lassitude until that first snow, with the light waning and the last moose-maple leaves dangling from the branches like seaweed.†   (source)
  • But the moon was waning, not waxing, and it wasn't the Change making him feel like crawling out of his skin.†   (source)
  • Foresters took their axes to the trees in the waning afternoon light to harvest enough wood to see them through the night.†   (source)
  • He looked at Suzan in the waning light.†   (source)
  • Even from thirty feet away, Hazel could sense Annabeth's life force waning, her pulse becoming thready.†   (source)
  • She squinted at him in the waning light, and it occurred to Jeremy that she was even prettier than he remembered.†   (source)
  • He floated by them, and slowly his boat departed, waning to a dark spot against the golden light; and then suddenly it vanished.†   (source)
  • Beyond her, the rest of the world was out of focus, and in the waning light, as if disembodied, I heard my own words coming back to me.†   (source)
  • At last he noticed the echoes were waning and ever more of a delay was appearing between each repetition of the sounds.†   (source)
  • But there was no steady progress; they understood from the doctors that this was only waxing and waning.†   (source)
  • It was the sort of scene that happens at countless youth soccer games, and surely looked routine to the new fans the Fugees had recruited in the waning minutes of the game.†   (source)
  • The game was tied 5-5 in the waning minutes when Max ran down a terrified-looking Second Year boy and stole the ball.†   (source)
  • The sun was low behind him, making the stranger's features difficult to discern, but despite the waning light Dawson was suddenly certain it was the man he'd seen first in the ocean and then again on the supply ship.†   (source)
  • Muted now, not strident, not announcing itself with a clarion, but waxing and waning in steady oscillations.†   (source)
  • Cleath and her two younger children had struggled on at the delvings, but then the boy sickened and the mother, between tending him and waning in her own strength, failed to pull the required dish of ore from her mine in three weeks.†   (source)
  • He pressed on the cork to make sure it was wedged in tightly, then held up the bottle in the waning light.†   (source)
  • Razor must sense my enthusiasm waning.†   (source)
  • Most of the village was hidden underground, only a handful of small hovels to be seen by the light of the waning moon.†   (source)
  • And as Max redoubled his attack, he studied his opponent carefully for any clue that his faith and confidence were waning.†   (source)
  • In the waning light, the Varden settled on a series of cultivated fields just southeast of Dras-Leona, where the land rose up to a slight plateau, which would provide them with a modicum of protection should the enemy charge their position.†   (source)
  • She stopped and looked around, but her vision was blurred, and she knew that she would never find the forest in this waning light.†   (source)
  • But autumn was waning fast; slowly the golden light faded to pale silver, and the lingering leaves fell from the naked trees.†   (source)
  • He complains of an energy waning within him, and is convinced that the time he's stolen between death and oblivion is coming to an end.†   (source)
  • The bush leagues contained two kinds of riders: kids like Pollard seeking to make their names and veterans in the bitter waning days of their careers, sliding down to this last and lowest place in the sport.†   (source)
  • At last as the afternoon was waning they came to the eaves of the forest, and in an open glade among the first trees they found the place of the great burning: the ashes were still hot and smoking.†   (source)
  • The night was old, and westward the waning moon was setting. gleaming fitfully through the breaking clouds.†   (source)
  • Chapter 4 A Journey in the Dark It was evening, and the grey light was again waning fast, when they halted for the night.†   (source)
  • Turning quickly they saw ripples, black-edged with shadow in the waning light: great rings were widening outwards from a point far out in the lake.†   (source)
  • You'll remember, Mr. Frodo, the Moon was waning as we lay on the flet up in that tree: a week from the full, I reckon.†   (source)
  • Only the waning might of Gondor stands now between him and a march in power along the coasts into the North; and if he comes, assailing the White Towers and the Havens, hereafter the Elves may have no escape from the lengthening shadows of Middle-earth.†   (source)
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