Potts's petering out wasn't altogether a surprise, and nobody expected anything from O'Flynn till we got to Dawson, when a lawyer and a fella with capital behind him may come in handy.

It was proposed to make the attack on the Kauwukah and Rushdi systems at Hareira on November 4, but the water available at Beersheba had not been equal to the demands made upon it and was petering out, and mounted troops protecting the right flank of XXth Corps had to be relieved every twenty-four hours.

Towards dusk the Turks' attacks petered out, though the guns and snipers continued busy, and the Yeomanry Mounted Division was relieved by the 231st Infantry Brigade of the 74th Division and the 157th Infantry Brigade of the 52nd Division, the Australian Mounted Division ultimately taking over the left of the line which XXth Corps troops occupied.

The saloon-keeper allowed they were footsore a'ready, and kinder petered out.

He's obstinate as my old mule, an' so am I. An' there's another thing: I'm most petered out, an' need a rest.

" She stood up, her eyes were shining, her face radiant "Fergive me, but I reckoned youwaspeteredout?" "Petered outme?" "Yas; I'm a silly, fullish woman.

Wal," he glanced at Leveson, "somebody is petered out, but it ain't me.

"It ain't been regularly used since the Daisy petered out in '73, but I guess the bridge is all right.

Then the conversation petered out.

There is no gradual petering out of foliage.

After the mines which attracted Ocampo and his friends "petered out," or else, with the primitive tools of the sixteenth century, ceased to yield adequate returns, the Spaniards lost interest in that remote region.

I refer it to you, though you be likewise fools and madmen yourselves, and I as mad to ask the question; for what said our comical Mercury? "Justum ab injustis petere insipientia est.

Multi se in inquietudinem praecipitant ambitione et cupiditatibus excaecati, non intelligunt se illud a diis petere, quod sibi ipsis si velint praestare possint, si curis et perturbationibus, quibus assidue se macerant, imperare vellent.

Défago had sung his song and plunged into a story, but Hank, in bad humor, reminded him so often that "he kep' mussing-up the fac's so, that it was 'most all nothin' but a petered-out lie," that the Frenchman had finally subsided into a sulky silence which nothing seemed likely to break.

And with that the aggressive section of the suffragist movement seems to have petered out, leaving the broad reality of feminine emancipation to go on in a beneficent silence.

I began to believe that the whole affair had petered out; perhaps on reflection the Administrator had decided I was not a proper person to be turned loose out of bounds, and nobody could have blamed him for that, for he knew next to nothing about me.

But their fanaticism has a way of petering out when the gang's not there to see.

After struggling along for five years it finally "petered out" in 1918, helped to its death, no doubt, by the exigencies of the last year of war.

There is no accounting for it, but the result has thrown out my calculations, and here we are little more than 100 miles from the base and petering out.

He petered out, in fact, as far as the Mile End workhouse, where I discovered him one sad day, and was ultimately able to get him married to the lady who sold winkles on the pavement just outside.

When, however, he arrived before the city the walls and the catapults made him hesitate, and he entered into negotiations, which, as usual, petered out and brought him no adequate reward for all his hopes and preparations.

quod si non arva aliena domosque Ignotas peteres, et Troja antiqua maneret, Troja per undosum peteretur classibus aequor?"

But she had brother Jim make some inquiries, and a few days later, when Doodums complained of feeling all petered out and wanted to go to bed early, she was ready for him.

At last we found one, but it soon petered out, and we were lost in thick timber, in a driving rain, with the cold and wind increasing.

" "Miss Thoroughbung, you mean?" "She came here, and so be-Petered me in my own house,nay, up in this very room,that I hardly knew whether I was on my head or my heels.