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Before I Fall
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- And when I wake up it wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty.†
p. 416.9ebbing = declining -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- The pain ebbs away.†
p. 449.9ebbs = declines -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
- The sound of the horn ebbs away from us, taillights disappearing into the dark.†
p. 465.7
- Three faces blooming together like flowers on a single stem, names ebbing away from me, a single word: love.†
p. 468.7 *ebbing = declining -- 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)