Let some cause produce a weakening or cessation of the movements of the stomachas fear and angerand the sensation of hunger disappears coincidently with the drop in the pressure within it.

And then She looked around where the great shadows lay upon the fields, felt the weakening of her limbs, her failing breath, and smiled.

Nothing as yet had come to confirm that peculiar warning described, but his faith knew no weakening on that account.

A good conceit or two bates of such a man, and makes a sensible weakening in him; and his brain recovers it not a year after.

At this point there occurred a weakening of certain troops of the second Italian army, which gave the overwhelming German contingents an opportunity to pass forward between a portion of the army on the North and that on a line farther South.

Mao opposes such "weakening" and favours a new generation willing to endure hardships, as he did in his youth.

It confounds suspicion and sees unbelief, first weaken, and at last do reverence.

" The dull flush on his face showed at least no weakening on his own part.

" Rhyming Joe detected, in an instant, the weakening on the lawyer's part, and increased his audacity accordingly.

The acquisition of territory in the Congo region means at first an actual loss of power to Germany; it can only be made useful by the expenditure of large sums of money, and every penny which is withdrawn from our army and navy signifies a weakening of our political position.

This necessitated a direct attack on the well-prepared system of defences on the hills protecting Jerusalem from the west, but it did not entail any weakening of General Allenby's determination that there should be no fighting by British troops in and about the precincts of the Holy City.