238 examples of die down in sentences

But their advance was then halted by the French in a series of the most brilliant counter-attacks, and the German offensive appeared to die down by March 1, when their losses in the ten days' battle were estimated at 175,000, including between 40,000 and 50,000 killed.

Although a fire may die down, and seem to have little life in it, there is no absolute surety unless water be used, that a rising wind may not fan the embers into renewed activity, until a dangerous spark is carried into some nest of dead leaves near by, and so the fire starts that man-power can seldom control.

Now, whilst we had been watching and listening, we had suffered the fire to die down to a most unwise lowness, and consequently, though the moon was rising, there was by no means the same brightness that should have made the camp light.

He then stood with his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat, waiting for the applause to die down.

Sleep being absolutely out of the question and traveling an unknown trail in the darkness equally impracticable, he sat up the whole of that night, rifle in hand, before a fire he never for a single moment allowed to die down.

Then it would be generally assumed again that the thing was an accident, and the talk would die down.

Or if you prefer a sail you can hire one of the native boats with a peculiar rigging and usually get a good breeze in the morning, although it is apt to die down in the afternoon, and you have to take your chances of staying out all night.

But in the Middle Age, this feeling had no religious root, by which it could connect itself rationally, either with actual wedlock or with the noble yearnings of men's spirits, and it therefore could not but die down into a semi-sensual dream of female-saint-worship, or fantastic idolatry of mere physical beauty, leaving the women themselves an easy prey to the intellectual allurements of the more educated and subtle priesthood.

It talks, too, of a worse state, of men twice dead; of men, who, after God has brought their souls to life, let those souls of theirs die down again within them, and rot away, as far as we can see, hopelessly and for ever.

What sadder sight, if you recollect that men need not be thus; that God hates seeing them thus; that they become thus, and die down in sin, in spite of God, with all heaven above, and God the Lord thereof, crying to them, Why wilt thou die?

We may suppose their idea was to let the excitement about the amended bill die down; to let people generally, and one fiercely honest young corporation attorney in particular, have time to forget that there was such a thing as House Bill Twenty-nine.

As the coach drew up at the west door of the Abbey, and Monsignor stepped out with his robes about him, he heard, like a ground-bass to the ecstatic pealing of the bells overhead, the great roar of welcome roll out over the wide space, reverberate back from Westminster Hall and the Government Buildings opposite, and die down into heart-shaking silence again, as the vermilion flash was seen at the Abbey doors.

" "Annuals die down at the end of the first season.

When the foliage begins to die down gradually, lessen the amount of moisture given.

When the flowering is over the leaves must be allowed to die down, not cut off.

The leaves should not be cut off when withering, but allowed to die down.

These are plants that die down during the winter, but spring up and produce new stems annually.

Some perennials, such as Pinks, Carnations, Saxifrages, etc., do not die down, but retain their leaves.

" After a while the campfire began to die down.

As the flames die down, young and old leap over them, and cattle are sometimes driven through the smouldering embers.

" Almost as she spoke, the glare outside began to die down, though the sky remained red and threatening until daybreak.

Then the light which I had seen glancing over the walls and across the ceiling, seemed to halt and die down.

The lightning had begun to die down, and the light within the room was dim.

Nature, more effectual, causes it to die down after running riot for a few years.

Some not understood astonishment caused all her passion to die down.

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