27 adjectives to describe ebbing

The woman cried out at the rapid ebb of colour from his face.

We should reflect that under this free Government there is an incessant ebb and flow in public opinion.

Take this of me, for somewhat I have tried; A mighty ebb follows a mighty tide.

Lately a quantity of small incidents have occurred, such as disputes over the ownership of properties financed by Germany and the really melodramatic depreciation in the German coinage, which unmistakably show the swift ebb of Turkey's misplaced confidence.

But to be human was to love life, to hate death, to faint under loss, to throb and pant with heavy sighs, to lie sleepless in the long dark night, to shrink with unutterable sadness at the wan light of dawn, to follow duty with a laggard sense, to feel the slow ebb of vitality and not to care, to suffer with a breaking heart.

The erratic ebb and flow is more pronounced here than at Southampton and there are longer periods of high than low water.

A faint ebb and flow whispered against the tiny gravel beach at the end.

Had his seeming nearness to the stars in the convent loggia brought him a premonition of the later message which had made him the "friend and master" of Galileo? Did he develop his "Laws of Sound" in that voiceful silence; or was it in that solitude he had first watched the gentle ebb and flow of his own life-current and learned the secret which Harvey, later, uttered to the world?

Gloomy ebb and flow of the people.

At all events, an immediate ebb in the German tide was necessitated by the British successes of April 9 to 16.

Both M. Romains and M. Barbusse perceive, as the fundamental factor influencing human life, the contraction and expansion of physical and spiritual relationship, the inevitable ebb and flow perceived by the poet who pointed out that we cannot touch a flower without troubling of a star.

This was not the work of one administration; it ran with intermittent ebb and flow through many administrations.

Owing to the fact that no ruler emerged capable of keeping the distracted country in order, there was a regular chassé-croisé of rival princelets, an unceasing tale of political marriages and murders, conspiracies and revolts of feudal nobles all over the country, and perpetual ebb and flow of the boundaries of the warring principalities which tore the fabric of Bulgaria to pieces amongst them.

I broke in, stepping hastily in front of Mr. Hines, for I had seen all the pink ebb out of his face, leaving it a dreadful sort of gray; and I had no desire to be witness of a murder, however much I might deem it justified.

As the night deepened, and the shy stars peeped at the bold moon, the boys let their prattle ebb into silence.

Such were our counter-tides at land, and so Presaging of the fatal blow, In their prodigious ebb and flow.

III AT SAN REMO San Remo's palms in beauty stand Beside the storied sea, Where azure band and golden sand Are wedded ceaselessly; For from the deep, which seems to sleep, The slow waves, long and low, Their journeys done, break one by one In rhythmic ebb and flow.

Now 'tis slackest ebb of tide.

Too young, too inexperienced and sensitive to be insusceptible to the spell of the theatrical, the girl was conscious of a steady ebb of her new-found store of fortitude, skepticism, and defiance, together with an equally steady inflow of timidity and uneasiness.

For thus with rhythmic sweep sublime Swings Chaos on to Cosmos; then In ages, measureless by time, Rolls Cosmos back to mist again, In one stupendous ebb and flow, As aeons come and aeons go, With all their freight of weal and woe.

His sudden and mysterious flight was very much against him, and his reputation was at a sudden ebb.

Year by year this vast procession goes on in the air, back and forth, night and day, like the ceaseless ebb and flow of the tides at sea.

He was surprised at the sudden startled look that shot into her eyes, the swift ebbing of the colour from her cheeks.

As the contents of the shops are exhibited in the windows, so the character of the visitors is shown by the crowds, and the life of the place is seen in the constant ebb and flow of the people on the Höheweg.

It has been, and is now, a common complaint with many who interest themselves about their fellow-creatures, and the welfare of the human race, that nothing in this world is sure,nothing is permanent; a continual ebb and flow seems to be the only law of human life.

27 adjectives to describe  ebbing