Which preposition to use with waning
This may partly refer to the deaths of William Shelley and of Keats; but I think the purport of the phrase extends further, and implies that Shelley's hopes generallythose animating conceptions which had inspired him in early youth, and had buoyed him up through many adversitiesare now waning in disappointment.
A sort of general relaxation of formality, due to the waning of the season, and to people being too busy to bother, or already in thought away, seemed to give a greater freedom.
" The adder's-tongue, if plucked during the wane of the moon, was a cure for tumours, and there is a Swabian belief that one, "who on Friday of the full moon pulls up the amaranth by the root, and folding it in a white cloth, wears it against his naked breast, will be made bullet-proof."
The Cross waned before the Crescent.
The song of the gas-jet waned to a point in his ears, and then rose steadily till it was like the beating of the world's heart.
Her popularity did not wane with advancing years.
As the warm evening wanes into coolness and gray, the one unspoken pain of his life comes back, and whitens his cheerful face.
Even that half of the evening east of the cork-popping land of the midnight son has waned at Keeley's.
" She sighed, leaned back, dreamy eyed, watching the sun spots glow and wane on the weather-beaten footbridge.
A chill creeps curdling yet beneath my hair, To think what chanced me by the pallid gleam Of a moon-wraith that waned through haunted air.
Their popularity did not wane for many a decade.
Without, in those dark winter days, storm drove storm over the ancient, evil city, rain followed rain, and gloom changed watches with darkness by day and night for one whole week, while the moon waned from the last quarter to the new.
But now all private grudges wane like mist In the keen sunlight of my full intent; And this man counts but for some sullen bull Who paws and mutters at unheeding pilgrims His empty wrath: yet let him bar my path, Or stay me but one hour in my life-purpose, And I will fell him as a savage beast, God's foe, not mine. Beware thyself, Sir Count!
The main street of Warkworth leads straight up to the postern gate of the castle, and many stirring sights have the successive inhabitants of the little village looked upon, as the fortunes of the owners of the castle waxed and waned throughout the many centuries in which the lords of Warkworth played a notable part in the history of England.
St. Patrick hears him relate that he had been carried by his immortal wife, Niamh, to the land of the Ever-Young, "Where broken faith has never been known, And the blushes of first love never have flown," that he had battled for a hundred years with an undying foe, and that his strength had not waned during his stay on those immortal shores, although he had felt the effect of age when his foot again touched his native land.
In the spring of 1816 he was fast waning towards extinction.
Since its material prosperity overwhelmed its spiritual ascendancy in the first years of triumph its vitality has waned under the stress of riches, then beneath lassitude and the slow decrease of power.
As joys the weary pilgrim by the way, When Phoebus wanes unto the western deep, To summon him to his desired rest; Or as the poor distressed mariner, Long toss'd by shipwreck on the foaming waves, At length beholds the long-wish'd haven,
This room's eyelids I will ope, Make a morning as I may; 'Tis the time for work and hope; Night is waning near the day.
When he looked upon so many persons, happy and confident, when he saw the bride and groom followed by their train of fresh and innocent little girls, and reflected that they were going to meet there a horrible death, he was sorry and felt his hatred waning within him.
The afternoon sun was waning behind a bank of clouds, screened from the girls by a fringe of trees.