Which preposition to use with abate
And then, as the plague had abated in Florence, they returned to the city.
We all began to be afraid that a suit, which as yet had abated of none of its ardours, might at last be lingered on, till passion had time to cool, and love go out in the experiment.
It has appeared, that the cheapness of licenses will not hinder the present retailers from carrying on an illegal trade; that information will not now be more safe or more frequent than before, and that the duty, if not in part evaded, may yet be probably abated from the present profits of the sale.
It had gripped you hard at breakfast, when you were sunk in fear of your lessons, but had abated at nine o'clock.
Cappadocia Ariarathes, king of Cappadocia, whose land lay beyond the boundary laid down by the Romans for their protectorate, escaped with a money- fine of 600 talents (146,000 pounds); which was afterwards, on the intercession of his son-in-law Eumenes, abated to half that sum.
The Samnite generals, on the contrary, considered that their battalions were becoming weakened daily by small losses, and the general vigour abated by prolonging the war.
It never stopped for an instant, never abated for so much as a minute.
By this time next year, you and Hardwick will be wanting to have me abated as a nuisance.
The wind abated during the night, and we were early on the waters, and went on until eleven o'clock, when we landed for breakfast.
The intense pain of the stings rapidly abated under Mary's homely but skillful treatment, and as the child still retained her place in Mary's lap she said, "Can you tell us why such pretty little things as bees have such terrible stings?
Happily the complaint abated without his being put to the torture of amputation.
When following an acute attack, we have the most marked symptoms of pain and distress, somewhat abating after the second or third week.
"'My aunt's kindness, however, does not abate towards me.
It was terrible; but by the time the evil began to abate with her, it had penetrated elsewhere and under the form of a slow tenacious disease it ate to the very bone.
Most of all is the shade of this tree noxious, for whoever sleeps for any length of time beneath its branches, wakens with a swollen head, and almost blind, though this blindness abates within a few days.
The next time you see Marshal Botta, and are to act King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, you must abate about a hundredth thousandth part of the dignity of your crown.