The hazards were in some measure increased by the bold manner in which our navigators felt themselves called on to push ahead; for time was very precious in every sense, not only on account of the waning season, but actually on account of the fatigue undergone by men who were compelled to toil at the pumps one minute in every four.

Then the trees were kindled; then the broad, yellow mooncall it the harvest moon!soared slowly up, dragging its captive stars, and mixing its fresh radiance with the waning glories of the crimson west.

Listen now: "They gradually came to talking more frequently of matters outside their love, and in the letters that Emma wrote him she spoke of flowers, verses, the moon and the stars, naïve resources of a waning passion striving to keep itself alive by all external aids.

Shere Ali drew the letter from his pocket, and in the waning light read it through again.

Nor has Narcissus been the only lover, I suspect, who, in the season of the waning of the moon, has sent such excuses for scrappy epistolary make-shifts as 'the strident din of an office, an air so cruelly unsympathetic, as frost to buds, to the blossoming of all those words of love that press for birth,' when, as a matter of fact, he has been unblushingly eating the lotus, in the laziest chair at home, in the quietest night of summer.

At this period Georgina's waning good looks were in some measure counterbalanced by the cumulative effects of half a dozen seasons in good society, which had given style to her person, ease to her manners, and sharpness to her tongue.

Exclamations of pleasure had escaped them, as the exhibition advanced; for the view, like the shifting of scenes, was in a constant state of transition under the waning and changing light, and each had eagerly pointed out to the others some peculiar charm of the view.

It was not, at this point of the conversation, waning.

So we through this world's waning night May, hand in hand, pursue our way; Shed round us order, love, and light, And shine unto the perfect day.

Some unerring instinct told her, no doubt, that she was giving all and taking nothing, offering gold for silver, truth for falsehood, love and devotion for a mere liking, rapidly waning to indifference and contempt.

The dazzling robes are turning blank and colourless, the emerald rays waning to a pale, sad light, the flashing diadem is dulled and dim.

But where?" Jacqueline did not answer, but walked quietly on; and so they passed beyond the city-borders to the river-bank,far away into the country, through the fields, under the light of stars and of the waning moon.

as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted 15 By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

The waning Crescent lacks divinity: It gives me dreams of battles, and the woes Of women shut in hushed seraglios.

She was dead, and past all help, or need of it The ancient rooms she had seemed to fill with life, even while her own was waning fastthe garden she had tendedthe eyes she had gladdenedthe paths she had trodden, as it were, but yesterdaycould know her never more.

At the adoption of the United States constitution, slavery was regarded as a fast waning system.

At the adoption of the United States constitution, slavery was regarded as a fast waning system.

Meanwhile the winter sank deeper; the weather grew wilder, the roads more impracticable, and therefore it seemed all the pleasanter to spend the waning days in agreeable society.

its brief, its waning strength Upward no more the fetters' weight can bear: It falters,pauses,sinks; and, sunk at length, Plucks at its chain in frenzy and despair.

125 Plied thick and close as when the fight begun, Their huge unwieldy navy wastes away; So sicken waning moons too near the sun, And blunt their crescents on the edge of day.

He defended himself easily, feeling his assailant's strength already waning.

"Is it wise, then, say, in the waning day, When the vessel is crack'd and old, To cherish the battered potter's clay As though it were virgin gold?

I hurried wildly onwards through the waning darkness, trusting that chance would be my friend.

It was past six o'clock, and the light already showing signs of waning, so we lost no time in attacking the hill again.

MORNING The pale beams of the waning moon still cast a shadow of the cottage, when the labourer rises from his heavy sleep on a winter's morning.