Both Uses of
ebb
in
The Time Machine
- 'So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth's fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebb away.†
Chpt 11 *ebb = decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed.†
Chpt 12ebbed and flowed = exhibited a recurring pattern of decrease and increase