Which preposition to use with lessen
The storm has not lessened in any degree; I never knew anything like it, but I am not the 'oldest inhabitant.'
But when the work done has not been done faithfully, or well, or honestly, or in the right spirit, the reward is lessened to that exact degree.
New-born flocks, In rustic dance, Frisking ply their feeble feet; Forgetful of their wintry trance, The birds his presence greet; But chief the sky-lark warbles high His trembling, thrilling ecstasy, And, lessening from the dazzled sight, Melts into air and liquid light.
A voice, as of the cherub-choir, Gales from blooming Eden bear; And distant warblings lessen on my ear, That, lost in long futurity, expire.
That influence lessens by familiar view.
Are our calamities lessened for not being ascribed to Adam?
They afterwards remark, that they have this comfort under the severity of Mr. Dryden's satire, to see his abilities equally lessened with his opinion of them, and that he could not be a fit champion against the Panther till he had laid aside his judgment.
This movement would be, in one sense, sideways, the circle of light gradually lessening around the north pole, and extending towards the south, as the globe proceeded east and north, diminishing the length of the days in the northern hemisphere, and increasing them in the southern.
The pressure lessened as before, but in a second or two the steel took a fresh hold.
Putting spurs to their horses the two young men tried to escape by flight, but the derisive cries of the enemy showed that the distance was rapidly lessening between them.
" The path continued to ascend, but the thick tropical growth did not lessen during the tramp of the morning.
It may be a little lessened of late, but at the time of which we are writing, or about the year 1820, there was scarcely an individual who followed this particular calling out of the port of Sag Harbour, whose general standing on board ship was not as well known to all the women and girls of the place, as it was to his shipmates.
[Port's importance lessened under Spain.]
The voice could be heard by one directly to leeward, the howling of the winds and the roar of the waters having materially lessened within the last few hours.
" Then, on page 453: "He had no longer, as formerly, words so gentle that they made her cry, nor passionate caresses that made her mad; so that their great love, which engrossed her life, seemed to lessen beneath her like the water of a stream absorbed into its channel, and she could see the bed of it.
And resistance lessened before the impersonality of the pleader.
The money-value of the collection might be lessened without affecting its worth in other more considerable respects, as an illustration of the rise and progress of the most important school of modern Art.
Lord Brougham explained his strong language away, but he was incapable of really controlling himself, and the strain was never lessened until 1843, when the correspondence ceases, and we learn that there had been a quarrel between him and his too long-suffering correspondent.
The boy was looking at me also questioningly, the terror in his face by no means lessened at the sound of this strange word.
" "Well, then, science has fixed certain periods in all these various matters which simply cannot be lessened beyond a certain point.
The broad avenue lessened into a broken road, roofed by many kinds of trees.