Both Uses of
ebb
in
Childhood's End
- Swifter than any tide could ebb, the water was receding from the shore.†
Chpt 16ebb = decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- The ship was leaving the frontiers of the Solar System: the energies that powered the Stardrive were ebbing fast, but they had done their work.†
Chpt 24 *ebbing = declining -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide