Her lessening boat unwilling rows to land; 'Adieu!'

She dropped her hurried walk and frankly took to her heels, Joe doing the same; but as she was nearly as fleet of foot as Muckluck, in spite of her fat, she still kept a lessening distance between herself and her pursuer.

You may get assistance to supplement your own lessening strength.

It will likewise lessen noise in changing courses and the likelihood of injury to the table from hot dishes.

Cold, pale, and silent, down each lessening aisle They clustering stand, and mimic life awhile.

Even then in desperate lessening ambition for a great picture I attempted to take one, still keeping my glance on him.

I say that, here at last, he had done a knightly deed, but she thought little of it, never raised her head as the troop clattered from Mauléon, with a lessening beat which lapsed now into the blunders of an aging fly who doddered about the window yonder.

When downward to his winter hut he goes, Dear and more dear the lessening circle grows; That hut which on the hills so oft employs 480 His thoughts, the central point of all his joys.

A strange and foreboding silence fell over the camp: only the sound of troubled breathing was heard above the lessening crackle of the fire.

Thus in 1893-94, and to a lessening degree in 1894-95, 1895-96; in 1907-08, and 1914-15.

The farther objects in the room Have vanish'd from his failing sight; One broad horizon spreads in gloom Around a lessening disc of light.

We replied with three more,our last farewell to civilisation,and silently watched the lessening figure of the steamer, until the white handkerchief which Arnold had tied to the backstays could no longer be seen, and we were rocking alone on the long swells of the Pacific.

But the paddle, the canoe, the lessening food" "Haven't I explained all that once?"

Followed the beat of lessening footfalls, while the nightingale improvised an envoi.

The clerks seemed trying to brazen out their own terror, and shovelled the rapidly lessening gold and notes across the counter with an air of indignant nonchalance.

Ah! wondrous soon our feast before A lessening group was yearly spread, And all our joys were ruffled o'er With somber mem'ries of the dead.

Presently, however, as they left the city and turned out upon a country road, the lessening heat and freer stirring of the air became distinctly perceptible.

and still Time's horses gallop down the lessening hill

No one can tell of those nights when the young girl was locked in with a hard prostitutenights, true, of lessening horror, and so, all the more horrible.

" After a little more talk, we bade the old couple good day, and went to peep at the cellar where they had crept stealthily away, for the sake of keeping their expenses close to their lessening income.

With wishful eyes receding, They watch from their swift boat the lessening isle.

Some days later Columbus, with the object of lessening journeys and also to provide more numerous retreats for his men in case of sudden attack by the natives, had another blockhouse built, which he called Concepcion.

The wind yet howls and dashes without; the rain, rushing in gusts on roof and casement, keeps no time nor tune; the fire is dead in the ashes; the red rose, in the lessening light, turns gray;but far away to the south the cloud begins to scatter; faint amber steals along the crest of the distant hills; after all evils, hope remains,even for a Man with two Shadows.

A careful reading of the MS. suggests that, either the sun is traveling on an orbit of great eccentricity, or else that it was approaching the green star on a lessening orbit.

He stood, peering out into the gray gloom and listening to the lessening plash of the oar, until the gondola of the gastaldo was already far on the way to San Marco, where sat the Ten.