Four moons have come, and have waned away again, since he began his journey to the land of spirits; and I have sat by his grave, and supplied him with food and water, and watched and wept for his return; and yet he does not come.

French chauvinism had waxed and waned, but it was never extinguished.

The evening waned and became night.

But since the new hotel had been built the Half-Way House had waned, and its quiet was only invaded by an occasional straggling traveller or a runaway couple, and its walls resounded with nothing more clamorous than the orgies of a Sunday-school picnic.

But the hours waned and still they tarried.

Valencia's acceptance of him had been hasty, founded rather on sentiment and admiration than on deep affection; and her feeling might have faltered, waned, died away in self-distrust of its own reality, if giddy amusement, if mere easy happiness, had followed it.

Night grew to dawn, to scarlet morn; Day waned to firelit, star-lit night:

Ralph had not travelled in Europe, and there were very few pictures at Cobhurst, and he was greatly interested in the photographs, but this interest soon waned in the increasing delight of having Dora seated so close to him, of seeing her fair fingers point out the things he should look at, and listening to her sweet voice, as she talked to him about the scenes and buildings.

His belligerency waned.

But at the thought of the Duc de Bligny, a feeling of deep sadness overcame him, and his strength waned.

" That evening as the daylight waned, while sky and stream, trees, mountains and jagged peaks were still gloriously tinted with the sun's last rays, Mr. Chris.

But Mark had no idea of where she was, andand after all, perhaps his faithful friendship had waned at last from lack of real response.

This light waxed and waned.

When it waned he doubted if it had ever waxed.

It waxed and waned through the long hours, and only vanished at last when it was submerged altogether under the rising tide of dawn.

Intermittently, whenever the power of Byzantium or of Bulgaria waned, some Serb princeling would try to form a political state on a more ambitious scale, but the fabric always collapsed at his death, and the Serbs reverted to their favourite occupation of quarrelling amongst themselves.

Further, there were about 700,000 Serbs and Croats in the south of Hungary proper, cast and north of the Danube, known as the Banat and Ba[)c]ka, a district which during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was the hearth and home of Serb literature and education, but which later waned in importance in that respect as independent Serbia grew.

Turkish nomads from the central Asiatic steppes had been drifting into the Moslem world as the vigour of the Arabs waned.

"I'm cousin to 'Steve'!" There the girl's gayety waned.

Vacantly the smile increased as she raised it to Flora, then waned while she looked once more on the relics, and grew again as she began to handle them.

Many a Brahmana hath waned before him, even as the stars before the sun.

The afternoon waned as we rode on and on, up and down, in and out, around, and at times the horses stood almost on their heads, sliding down steep places where the earth was soft and black, and gave forth a dank odor.

The afternoon had waned.

Who can say that the influence of Dickens, coming at the early, plastic period of his life, may not have turned the scale?" Another of his biographers, T. Edgar Pemberton, says his admiration for Charles Dickens never waned, but on the contrary, increased as the years rolled by.

His popularity waned and was eclipsed by that of the vigorous writers and philosophical thinkers that followed him.