All 6 Uses
ebb
in
Howards End
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- One had the sense of a backwater, or rather of an estuary, whose waters flowed in from the invisible sea, and ebbed into a profound silence while the waves without were still beating.†
Part 2ebbed = declined -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- Paul and his mother, ripple and great wave, had flowed into her life and ebbed out of it for ever.†
Part 12 *
- The tide had begun to ebb.†
Part 15ebb = decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- Now that the wave of excitement was ebbing, and had left her, Mr. Bast, and Mrs. Bast stranded for the night in a Shropshire hotel, she asked herself what forces had made the wave flow.†
Part 27ebbing = declining -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- Her colour had ebbed, and she was grey.†
Part 38ebbed = declined -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- And again and again fell the word, like the ebb of a dying sea.†
Part 44ebb = decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
Definitions:
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(1)
(ebb) decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)