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subside as in: her anger subsided
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I'm hoping aspirin will make the pain subside.
subside = become less severe
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I couldn't think clearly until the pain subsided.
subsided = became less severe
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We had to wait for the noise to subside before we continue our conversation.
subside = become less intense
- Let's talk tomorrow when anger has subsided and we can think more clearly.
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The swelling subsided, but it's still painful.
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His voice subsided to a mutter.
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- As the density subsided, the roll call of names limped through the ruptured streets, sometimes ending with an ash-filled embrace or a knelt-down howl of grief. (source)
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The dizziness has subsided and while my left ear is still deafened, I can hear a ringing in my right, which seems a good sign.
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subsided = become less severe (or perhaps stopped entirely)
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The swelling subsided, and the wound healed with time.
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subsided = became less severe (or went away entirely)
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When the hubbub had subsided, Professor McGonagall said, "Professor Sprout has informed me that the Mandrakes are ready for cutting at last."
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subsided = quieted
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Several days later, when the symptoms subsided, he and Phil were again taken to the porch and again injected, this time with more solution.
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subsided = become less severe
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- "Everyone had access to memories. It was chaos," he said. "They really suffered for a while. Finally it subsided as the memories were assimilated. But it certainly made them aware of how they need a Receiver to contain all that pain." (source)
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After a while, the squall began to subside and the thunderclouds scudded away from the center of town.
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subside = become less intense
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Then leaf subsides to leaf.
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subsides = becomes less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps goes away entirely
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His nervousness had subsided months earlier; he knew he no longer had control over his destiny.
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He waits until his breathing subsides, then slowly rolls off the bed, trying not to wake his wife.
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"I thought for a moment—" Aunt Beast started, then subsided, sighing. "No. It's not clear enough."
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Mayella's hostility, which had subsided to grudging neutrality, flared again.
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My heat rash had flared in July and hadn't subsided.
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Gradually the noise in the room, which had revived when the three of them came in, subsided again.
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People made way for him on all sides and the noise subsided.
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Montag did not look back at his wife as he went trembling along the hall to the kitchen, where he stood a long time watching the rain hit the windows before he came back down the hall in the gray light, waiting for the tremble to subside.
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subside = go away
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When the gales had finally subsided, he shook his index finger.
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subsided = became less intense
- His cough subsided immediately. (source)
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The pain had subsided some from yesterday, but he shrank from the thought of walking.
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After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.
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Up above we could still hear the screaming, but the gunfire subsided.
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She lay as still as possible until the pain subsided from absolute torture to just horrible throbbing.
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He had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided, leaving only a brown stain on the skin above his ankle, his fits of coughing in the early morning had stopped.
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After that, the storm subsided, and succeeding high water marks are considerably lower.
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- He subsided, grumbling to himself, threatening the future cats which might dare to disturb the future rabbits. (source)
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Lenina sat, listening to the footsteps in the other room, wondering, as she listened, how long he was likely to go tramping up and down like that; whether she would have to wait until he left the flat; or if it would be safe, after allowing his madness a reasonable time to subside, to open the bathroom door and make a dash for it.
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My excitement subsides, I wait cautiously until the first rocket goes up.
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Gilbert had whisked the pin out of sight and was studying his history with the soberest face in the world; but when the commotion subsided he looked at Anne and winked with inexpressible drollery.
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The moans of the little patient subsided; its convulsive tossings gradually ceased; and in a few moments, as is the custom of young children after relief from pain, it sank into a profound and dewy slumber.
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It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlour, and by one stair at a time, up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided.
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subsided = stopped being noisy and active
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When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier.
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subsided = stopped or became less severe
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I was even accustomed to make an irruption into some houses, where I was well entertained, and after learning the kernels and very last sieveful of news—what had subsided, the prospects of war and peace, and whether the world was likely to hold together much longer—I was let out through the rear avenues, and so escaped to the woods again.
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subsided = decreased in interest
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For the present the danger was over, and Fanny's sick feelings subsided; but when tea was soon afterwards brought in, and Sir Thomas, getting up, said that he found that he could not be any longer in the house without just looking into his own dear room, every agitation was returning.
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subsided = became less intense
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As Josie was not "speaking" to Jane just then she had to subside into comparative harmlessness.
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subside = quiet down
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At last the immediacy of the kill subsided.
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subsided = became less intense (was felt less)
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Sandy murmured something about baseball and subsided.
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subsided = quieted
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A second later it subsided, only to be replaced by another.
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subsided = became less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps went away entirely
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The Chief Elder waited until the uneasy applause subsided.
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subsided = stopped or became less active
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After a moment the pain subsided to a dull throbbing.
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But when the memory glimpses subsided, he was left with the gnawing, painful emptiness.
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The sound of his blood drowned all else and then subsided.
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She subsided with an exasperated grumble.
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subsided = became less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps went away entirely
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"Indeed," she said after her fit subsided.
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subsided = went away
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When the rains subsided, and the raft landed, the man and his family were the only ones alive.
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subsided = ended
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Pollard and Marcela arrived at the end of the catwalk, and the cheering subsided.
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As the throbbing subsided, he gazed across the lake.
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Some minutes later, the angry breeze subsided and Eragon again heard the priest:
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- And then another roar from the lions, which subsided quickly. (source)
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Maeiam was relieved when the fighting subsided again, mostly because they no longer had to be cooped up with Rasheed, with his sour temper infecting the household.
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subsided = became less active (or perhaps stopped entirely)
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This is hard because the effects of the concussion she gave me haven't completely subsided and my thoughts still have a tendency to jumble together.
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subsided = gone away
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Here Judge Taylor glanced sharply at the witness and must have decided his speculations devoid of evil intent, for he subsided sleepily.
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And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the, firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then.
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subsided = became less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps went away entirely
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At the moment, the tempestuous quarrels have subsided; only Dussel and the van Daans are still at loggerheads.
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When the headaches struck, the general went to his room, undressed, turned off the light, locked the door, and didn't come out until the pain subsided.
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subsided = became less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps went away entirely
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When all the egwugwu had sat down and the sound of the many tiny bells and rattles on their bodies had subsided, Evil Forest addressed the two groups of people facing them.
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subsided = quieted
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"Mmrs. Whattsitt," came Mrs Which's voice severely, "jusstt beccause yyou arre verry youngg iss nno exxcuse forr tallkingg tooo muchh."
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Whenever one of these ancient men appeared in the crowd to dance unsteadily the funeral steps of the tribe, younger men gave way and the tumult subsided.
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Then, at the end of the afternoon; the mirage subsided and the horizon became level and blue and clipped as the sun declined.
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subsided = went away
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The meeting subsided.
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subsided = became less noisy (with everyone talking at once)
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When the Varden's outpouring of excitement had subsided, King Orrin greeted Eragon and Arya as Nasuada had.
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subsided = quieted
- The laughter subsided immediately. (source)
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The wind subsided to a gentle breeze.
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subsided = became less intense
- The butcher's ramblings subsided, and in the intervening silence, Eragon placed his hand on Sloan's upper arm. (source)
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After a minute, Carn uttered a number of words in the ancient language, and a few seconds later, the pain in Roran's leg subsided to a dull ache.
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subsided = became less severe
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His mirth subsiding, Orik said, "If we move against you or Az Sweldn rak Anhuin, you will consider it an act of war, Vermund?"
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subsiding = becoming less intense
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As Eragon accepted his mug, he noted that her earlier anger seemed to have subsided, and he wondered if she had been listening outside to what Jeod had said about her.
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subsided = became less intense
- When the noise and the pain had subsided, he lowered his hands and staggered to his feet, clenching his teeth as his injuries announced their presence with a myriad of unpleasant sensations. (source)
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When her weeping subsided, he whispered in her ear, "I would rather lose an arm than be parted from you, but I would rather die than allow anyone to hurt you … or our child."
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subsided = quieted
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"I can, and I must!" said Nasuada with such authority, Katrina held her tongue and waited to hear Nasuada's explanation, although Roran could tell that her anger had not subsided.
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Still grumbling, she subsided into mental deliberations that were incomprehensible to Eragon, then said, "Well, I may have a solution, but I warn you, I shall not continue if I am unable to maintain my usual level of craftsmanship."
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The red dragon's snarl had subsided to a faint warning curl of his upper lip, and in his sparkling crimson eyes appeared a vast, puzzled sadness, as if he hoped Saphira or Eragon might know why he had been brought into the world merely so Galbatorix could enslave him, abuse him, and force him to destroy other beings' lives.
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subsided = became less intense
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I took a pill and it will make the trembling in my hand subside.
subside = become less active (or perhaps go away entirely)
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Candy subsided.
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subsided = became less intense
- "Surely Himmelstoss was a very different fellow as a postman," say I, after Albert's disappointment has subsided. (source)
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As he crossed the threshold he was met by old Lisabetta, who smirked and smiled, and was evidently desirous to attract his attention; vainly, however, as the ebullition of his feelings had momentarily subsided into a cold and dull vacuity.
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When no longer called upon to speak or listen—either of which operations cost him an evident effort—his face would briefly subside into its former not uncheerful quietude.
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"He has but increased the debt!" answered the physician, and as he proceeded, his manner lost its fiercer characteristics, and subsided into gloom.
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subsided = became less intense
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subside as in: the ground subsided
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We can't return to the home until the flood waters subside.
subside = settle to a lower level
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The ground is subsiding due to removal of ground water.
subsiding = settling or sinking to a lower level
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The flood waters have subsided.
subsided = settled to a lower level
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The deeper the tunnel, the less chance of subsidence on the surface.
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subsidence = the gradual sinking or settling of land to a lower level
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They'd made it to the roof, waiting there with dozens of other people until the water subsided.
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subsided = settled to a lower level
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He probably surmised that if he bided his time until August, the Teklanika would subside enough to be crossed.
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subside = settle to a lower level
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When the wall of seawater subsided, the three Romans were in the bay, spluttering and frantically trying to stay afloat in their armor.
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subsided = settled to a lower level
- After a minute, the roiling water subsided, and Rhunon withdrew the now pearl-gray sword. (source)
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Subsiding onto his seat Mr. Blore thought to himself: "He's nearer the day of judgment than I am!"
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subsiding = settling
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All my efforts subside like froth into the one desire to be able just to stay lying there.
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subside = settle
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Probably there were subsidences of the outer crust, when a portion of the sedimentary deposits was carried down sudden openings.
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subsidences = settling to a lower level
- When this bar is gradually increased by storms, tides, or currents, or there is a subsidence of the waters, so that it reaches to the surface, that which was at first but an inclination in the shore in which a thought was harbored becomes an individual lake, cut off from the ocean, wherein the thought secures its own conditions—changes, perhaps, from salt to fresh, becomes a sweet sea, dead sea, or a marsh. (source)
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All about the pool into which the water subsided grew various plants, that seemed to require a plentiful supply of moisture for the nourishment of gigantic leaves, and in some instances, flowers gorgeously magnificent.
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subsided = settled to a lower level
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The building is subsiding because the soil is shrinking from the drought.
subsiding = sinking or settling to a lower level
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The mud subsides when the waters become calm.
subsides = sinks or settles to a lower level
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- "Hey, Aech," I said, once our laughter subsided.† (source)
- When everyone had taken a swig of antidote and the various swellings had subsided, Snape swept over to Goyle's cauldron and scooped out the twisted black remains of the firework.† (source)
- "Good to take the weight off my feet," she said as she subsided into the booth across from me.† (source)
- The horror experienced during the Cultural Revolution gradually subsided, and she was finally able to relax a little.† (source)
- Lale takes the hits until they subside.† (source)
- When his dizziness had subsided, he took his torn coat by his fingertips and threw it in the trash, then stumbled up the stairs.† (source)
- The water was subsiding.† (source)
- The rain began to subside as Wes approached Levy's house.† (source)
- I took in the scene of destruction, feeling my heart rate slowly subside as I grasped that he was unhurt.† (source)
- She'd only seen him once since the operation, and that was coming out of the hospital, before the swelling had subsided.† (source)
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- He knelt in the dry leaves and ash with the blanket wrapped about his shoulders and after a while the coughing began to subside.† (source)
- Werner is seized with a sudden and foreboding dread, but then Hauptmann looks back at him, and the feeling subsides.† (source)
- But the pressure quickly subsided back to 1 atm.† (source)
- The strikes of electricity subsided as quickly as they had begun.† (source)
- Conversation subsided to a muted hum, and the sound of shuffling cards swept through the house like autumn leaves blowing across a lawn.† (source)
- Not until the flames began to subside did his manic laughter fade.† (source)
- But gradually her rebellion against tranquillity subsided.† (source)
- When the applause subsided, Bailey spoke softly, as if reluctant to get in her way.† (source)
- As we drew nearer to town, the chatter subsided and finally stopped.† (source)
- A-bove thy deep and dream-less sleep The si-lent stars go by ... Only gradually did the Baby Jesus, unclench his fists; only slowly did the Christ Child's erection subside.† (source)
- I close my eyes and listen to the silence that builds between us as our gasps for breath subside into soft, gentle rhythms.† (source)
- But when the body failed to come alive and scar my mind forever by breaking the glass and going for my jugular, my initial panic subsided.† (source)
- Cersei subsided, cold with anger, and Robert turned back to Ned.† (source)
- The dogs lunged, sniffed at it eagerly, then subsided, disappointed again.† (source)
- When the lump in his throat subsided, he whispered to her, "You are the answer to every prayer I've offered.† (source)
- The waves of blankness began to subside.† (source)
- For ten seconds he held my arm, and then I felt the anger subside.† (source)
- Then Charles clapped his hands and, shouting over the noise that barely subsided, announced that before dinner there was to be an entertainment in my honor.† (source)
- As the summer progressed, the pain subsided; the cast got dirty; and by the time school started in the fall, the cast was off; and he was back running with his friends.† (source)
- Very slowly the frenzy had subsided and given way to infinite tenderness, leaving their shaken souls satisfied.† (source)
- As the fever subsided, I began to feel better, but Grandma said I should stay home a few more days to make sure I was completely well.† (source)
- Kai's voice over the tumult in her ears made her realize that the pain was subsiding.† (source)
- He waits for the fit to subside.† (source)
- After a length of time which he made no attempt to judge, he sensed a slight subsidence in their speed and some while later became aware that they were gradually gliding to a gentle halt.† (source)
- The echo of the final hammer on his skull died slowly away into the black cavern where Faber waited for the echoes to subside.† (source)
- Even with a special treat like that, my raging appetite didn't subside.† (source)
- Still, the dizziness does not subside.† (source)
- And when I picture his mind, I hear my name as a shy crystal ping that occurs once, maybe twice, a day and quickly subsides.† (source)
- As they walked, the growling in his stomach slowly began to subside, and he relaxed what he hadn't realized he had been clenching.† (source)
- The drugs from the previous nights, before we were brought to the city, had begun to subside in my system.† (source)
- When it had subsided enough for her to breathe without gasping, she felt her way to the instruments and keyed them.† (source)
- I withdraw my hand and kneel on the edge of the bed, taking hard swallows of air until the feeling subsides.† (source)
- The boy's rocking slowed but did not entirely subside.† (source)
- The noise upstairs subsides.† (source)
- Our flat was on the third floor, a location which had its advantages: on summer nights the dust and the street smells subsided and refreshing air came in through our open windows from above, carrying the moisture that rose from the river Vistula.† (source)
- When my coughing had subsided, he went on, "The gringos are flirting with another group now" That was hopeful news.† (source)
- The tense atmosphere had slowly subsided into a casual conversation; I guessed that Jasper was using his peculiar gift to control the situation.† (source)
- Gradually, as the weeks passed and the terror of going to school subsided, I began to notice something about my mother, that she looked nothing like the other kids' mothers.† (source)
- He scoots up in his seat as the last note is struck, and before the sound subsides completely, he unleashes a lone "Bravo!"† (source)
- That actually struck me as funny, but the retching had subsided again and I didn't want to restart it, so I refused to acknowledge it.† (source)
- The carping had subsided, he wrote, but few of the carpers had as yet made the "amende honorable" that now clearly was due Chicago.† (source)
- Betsie had put on the blue sweater beneath her long-sleeved dress and wedged now between me and the others, her shivering gradually subsided, and she was asleep.† (source)
- Their fear subsiding, they complied.† (source)
- The fever in my bones has subsided and the air no longer dances with flames, but Anatole still comes to me at night in the pelt of a panther.† (source)
- When the reaction began to subside, Edmonds asked, "You said something about monsters, Danny — what was it?"† (source)
- But much as she enjoyed their chats and the improved mood between them, they rarely touched, and her desire to be touched by him, long subsided, did not flicker back into flame.† (source)
- Finally, there were fewer hands and faces on the car windows, and the noises subsided.† (source)
- Once the gunfire subsided, I glanced over the roof and looked to see where the shots had come from.† (source)
- Gradually, the ripples subsided, leaving the woman hovering limp over the huge sea creature.† (source)
- And gradually my confusion subsided, as if smoke were rising and moving away on a current of fresh air.† (source)
- Dawn had truly come—she could see the remains of the bike, subsiding into a heap of unrecognizable ash as the sun's rays struck it.† (source)
- Rojas took care of me until my fever had subsided, my hand began to heal, and I returned to my senses; after that he had no more excuses to keep me there.† (source)
- She let go and it subsided, somewhat wrinkled at first but then settling back on her bones, looking perfectly normal.† (source)
- It had taken almost that whole month for Berger's fury to subside.† (source)
- After every flood, when the swirling angry waters of the river subsided, the big fish could be seen fighting their way back upstream.† (source)
- "You're funny," he says after our laughter subsides.† (source)
- Roran took another shift rowing and, by the time he returned to the deck, the whirlpool was subsiding.† (source)
- The bleeding subsided, leaving her able to fly, along with my siblings, to Manila.† (source)
- PAN: on Arrakis, any low-lying region or depression created by the subsiding of the underlying basement complex.† (source)
- The cops let him regain his balance, and the ache in his head gradually subsided as they waited for the paramedics.† (source)
- After the retching subsided, he hunkered motionless on his hands and knees for several minutes half out of the tent.† (source)
- After a while, the dogs stopped their howling, subsiding to a series of whimpers, and everybody went back inside.† (source)
- A sharp pain, which subsided in a wave as the milk came.† (source)
- By the time our nine P.M. slot rolls around, the rain has subsided to a soft mist that seems to dance in the late summer twilight.† (source)
- The barracks roar had subsided.† (source)
- And when she felt the quaking subside, she slid her face through the pressing wetness and found his mouth.† (source)
- She squats down, her back against the wall, eyes closed, as she waits for the dizziness and rocking to subside.† (source)
- In most cases, severe abdominal cramps are followed by watery, then bloody, diarrhea that subsides within a week or so.† (source)
- He yelled at God and he yelled at the world until Kelley held him and the anger subsided into tears.† (source)
- She subsided a little, subsided to a venomous murmur.† (source)
- The sound of gunfire subsided.† (source)
- When his vomiting subsided, Dalgard helped him to his feet, took him indoors, and made him lie down on a couch.† (source)
- It'll subside soon.† (source)
- He kept vigil with his cricket bat outside the closed bedroom door, prepared to break in if the noises did not subside.† (source)
- "Thanks," I say, my whole body subsiding in relief.† (source)
- But what, he wondered when the anguish subsided, had he really expected from a reunion (with Willie-Jay?† (source)
- Three hours later, when the drama had finally subsided and Lola's customer had left with a bandaged scalp, a hefty gift certificate, and a written promise of eyebrow waxing for life, I finally got to lock the cash drawer, get my purse, and walk outside.† (source)
- Like those other writers, I figured I'd have to wait until the pain subsided and left the words behind.† (source)
- The medical profession at that time called them "stomach pains" and felt the best cure was coffee dolloped with brandy twice a day until the pains subsided.† (source)
- "It's we who should thank—" began Milo, when the shouting had subsided, but, before he could finish, they had unrolled an enormous scroll.† (source)
- I said, my panic subsiding.† (source)
- The code blue excitement subsides, and Mr. Momen, an Iranian immigrant with a thick accent, closes the classroom door.† (source)
- He crouched under the horse until the hailstorm subsided, which was not more than ten minutes after it began.† (source)
- His glance added that nobody else was wanted, and Mandy subsided into a seat on the steps and watched the two walk away side by side.† (source)
- For the rest of the afternoon Scanlon and Martini and I ridiculed what Scanlon called that crummy sideshow fake lying there on the Gurney, but as the hours passed and the swelling began subsiding around the eyes I saw more and more guys strolling over to look at the figure.† (source)
- Instantly, his gagging and coughing subsided.† (source)
- The storm had subsided, and I wanted just to sit there, watching her sleep, staring at her as I stared at my roses.† (source)
- The buzzing starts to subside, replaced by a pounding ache that sweeps from ear to ear around the back of my skull.† (source)
- On November 25, after the rains subsided, Cornwallis and an army now numbering 10,000 set off, determined to catch Washington, Cornwallis said, as a hunter bags a fox.† (source)
- The moment it said its yes aloud, the moment it tried to take an active part in the love scene, the excitement would subside.† (source)
- The hubbub began to subside slowly as Major — de Coverley paused in the doorway with a frown of puzzled disapproval, as though viewing something bizarre.† (source)
- This time it held, until the anger subsided to a low boil, which is about normal.† (source)
- As soon as the word left Max's lips, the room erupted in brilliant light that subsided just as quickly.† (source)
- The conversation down below gradually subsided in tone and volume until I could no longer distinguish even a few words of Farsi.† (source)
- He let his anger subside again.† (source)
- And then the violent tremors subside.† (source)
- The flashing sweat on my neck began to subside.† (source)
- He said their man Lonny Clark had a rough night; the infection would not subside; the doctors were more concerned than the day before; and, most important, he was not receiving visitors.† (source)
- As he came out of the mist and their fears subsided, he seemed suddenly to diminish to ordinary hobbit-size.† (source)
- Once we settled into Block 28 that ache I'd felt since soon after we arrived at Manzanar subsided.† (source)
- The migraine began to subside as I kicked my Converses across the room.† (source)
- A ripple spread outward in subsiding circles, breaking both the reflections and the transparency.† (source)
- John's earlier panic had subsided into a feverish slumber, interrupted only by occasional shakes of his limbs.† (source)
- When it subsided, shepushed me playfully away from her, saying, "Now, Anna, don't bury me on the basis of a cough, merely!† (source)
- The countryside and the train had subsided to a gentle roll, and she could see nothing but pastureland and black cows from window to horizon.† (source)
- Vlad glared at D'Ablo, the burning sensation within him finally subsiding.† (source)
- The rash that had appeared over a week earlier had subsided, but now it was making a comeback.† (source)
- He banged hard and for a long time before the screaming subsided.† (source)
- He studied the phrase as the pain in his head subsided.† (source)
- After Mama's coughing subsided, she said, 'Timothy, when I'm gone, you will take care of Love, won't you?'† (source)
- When the laughter subsides, I say, "Well, anyway —" but the laughter starts all over again.† (source)
- The rain had subsided, returning to a mistlike drizzle.† (source)
- Tappan waited, smiling, until the yelling subsided.† (source)
- As the panic subsided, she sent him a mild glance.† (source)
- As the water subsided, grooms combed the town for the freed horses.† (source)
- Once the first pain subsided, it was as if a rainstorm were falling between her legs, flooding her entire body.† (source)
- It reminded him of when he was a kid and got carsick sometimes on trips to the beach with his parents so that they'd have to stop the car by the side of the road while Jerry either vomited or waited for the storm in his stomach to subside.† (source)
- Your withdrawal symptoms have mostly subsided and your vitals are good.† (source)
- He'd fall to the ground curling up over his wounded toes, struggling not to cry, and then would get up and go on, hurrying after the others, sniffling until the pain subsided.† (source)
- Papa is a little confused, but I told him what happened: that he's getting better, that the fever has subsided, and that he'll be able to come home.† (source)
- The movement and noise of the crowd were subsiding.† (source)
- The only result was that the horse broke into a kind of pretence of a trot for five or six paces and then subsided into a walk again.† (source)
- When the panic had subsided, Dart understood that the brittle jangling of the spiders' legs had not been part of the dream.† (source)
- He sat straight until the slipping feeling subsided.† (source)
- But it was different in quality now; her alarm had quite subsided, but given way to a lament for the dead pony.† (source)
- As the copper chimes subsided like the soft dissonant music in a dream of trolls, Joe hurried toward Lisa, and from the corner of his eye, he glimpsed the open wine bottle where Charlie Delmann had left it on the island counter.† (source)
- When my hysterics subside, he takes the vodka-laden towel from me and goes back into the kitchen.† (source)
- I took the ball out of the glove, held it in my right hand, and turned around for a moment to look out at the field and let the pain in my wrist subside.† (source)
- I think John Kwang would be a man to keep his boys close, keep May even closer, that he would collect the four of them in one shut-away room and have them sleep and eat and bathe all together until the tempests subsided.† (source)
- Lalla had been so involved with the joke—buying the kid that morning and finding a big enough pot—that she had forgotten about the real dinner and there was nothing to eat once the shock and laughter had subsided.† (source)
- (They both laugh a great deal, but it is sad laughter ....eventually they subside, fall silent) Your wife never mentioned a stepmother† (source)
- She was with him again, a heartbeat unbroken where time subsided into dawn, and the sunset gave way to the stars, wheeling across the night.† (source)
- A half hour later, driving along in the dark silence, the anger and bravado I'd felt earlier started to subside.† (source)
- "I'm going to let that subside for a bit," Nathan said.† (source)
- The crying subsided as I continued to twist the door knob.† (source)
- We ventured out again when the waters had subsided a little, taking with us as before two rupees.† (source)
- He waited for it to subside before continuing.† (source)
- It would take a few days for my petulance to subside.† (source)
- When the great cloud of spray subsided, her M.G. was upside down ten yards from shore, the bottom of the rear wheels just above the surface.† (source)
- Indeed all subsides.† (source)
- They slowly subsided into a great bed of coals that winked and hissed and spurted in sudden, angry life.† (source)
- During this interruption in our trip—a stop which lasted only fifteen minutes or so—I subsided into a remarkable tranquillity and found myself taking hopeful stock of the future.† (source)
- They were everywhere, flashing on the slow, horizontal move, on the upswings, rising and subsiding in the soundless dark.† (source)
- HELEN'S kicking has subsided, and when from the floor her hand finds ANNIE'S chair empty she pauses.† (source)
- The JUDGE pounds for order, but the emotional tension will not subside) I demand to know the purpose of Mr. Drummond's examination!† (source)
- Suddenly something burst into motion right under his nose—a bat, he thought as his alarm subsided—or perhaps some kind of bird.† (source)
- The first days without Yvette, the first days of solitude, subsiding excitement and clear vision, were always a relief.† (source)
- The tumult suddenly subsided as the world realized that it had lost the only man through whom the Overlords, for their own strange reasons, would speak to Earth.† (source)
- I was dizzy, but after a while it subsided and I got up, gripping the rail at the head of the bed, and I took my frst step.† (source)
- When the wars subsided, the fort was decommissioned and Lieutenant Peyton was assigned to sea duty.† (source)
- The skylarking subsided.† (source)
- The storm was subsiding, moving away.† (source)
- She sat tightly to the steps with her eyes shut until the dizziness stopped a little and the nausea subsided.† (source)
- A Congressman later recalled that "Some of the members of the House near me grew pale and sick under the burden of suspense"; and Ross noted that there was even "a subsidence of the shuffling of feet, the rustling of silks, the fluttering of fans, and of conversation."† (source)
- When the roaring in his ears subsided, he propelled himself toward Barbara, trying to arrange his thoughts and make split-second alterations in his plans.† (source)
- Some of them were beginning to rot, subsiding into a sour festering ooze of pinky stuff, covered with flies.† (source)
- Thalia must've been feeling something similar, because the anger in her eyes subsided a little bit.† (source)
- He waits until our laughter subsides before he continues.† (source)
- Zeitoun and Frank sat still, gripping either side until the waves subsided.† (source)
- I subsided from the very small amount of movement I had managed.† (source)
- No, if we are stopped, we shall have to wait until the dwarves' outrage subsides.† (source)
- The murmur subsided as it occurred to them that this was it and they were missing it.† (source)
- Then the dizziness subsides and I think of Hana.† (source)
- Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret.† (source)
- The dust storm obscured the view for a moment and when the winds subsided the vision was gone.† (source)
- Jace subsided, but his eyes were still glittering.† (source)
- The pains we felt from our feet subsided on the fourth night.† (source)
- "Don't worry about it," she said, her merriment at his expense finally subsiding.† (source)
- He blinked, and the pain behind his eyes subsided.† (source)
- The flames had dimmed, and in most places had subsided to sullen coals.† (source)
- The thunder subsided, rumbling back and forth across the sky, searching for someplace else to go.† (source)
- The man's screams subsided, but dry sobs echoed through the corridor.† (source)
- I felt my consciousness slipping as the pain subsided.† (source)
- The first runoff was just subsiding in the river.† (source)
- His anger was subsiding but he could still feel the burning in his cheeks.† (source)
- Danny smiled, puzzled, and at last the storm subsided by fits and starts.† (source)
- 'It makes no difference to anyone else,' I said to him, the fear in me subsiding.† (source)
- The pressure in my head subsided from blackout misery to moderate torture.† (source)
- Now that the chaos in society was finally subsiding, the demands on cadres were also changing.† (source)
- Ian hissed fiercely, and Hezekiah subsided.† (source)
- I closed my eyes for a few minutes while my head alternately pounded and subsided.† (source)
- When the lightning subsided, I saw that Anorak was no longer dressed in his black wizard's robes.† (source)
- When their panting subsided, they continued through the low hills preceding Carvahall.† (source)
- My father shook Chavez and the man's sobbing subsided.† (source)
- Jace subsided instantly, sinking back into the chair.† (source)
- After opening his mouth once or twice more, Dudley subsided into scarlet-faced silence.† (source)
- I put them on and the stabbing pain in my eyes subsided.† (source)
- As soon as I'm resting, the throbbing in my head subsides.† (source)
- My guilt slowly subsided as I looked into her dark eyes.† (source)
- It took minutes before the fit subsided and the last throb faded away, leaving Eragon gasping.† (source)
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