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  • The wind lessened and the blast of sound abated.†   (source)
  • When rough weather abates, and it becomes clear that you have survived the sky's attack and the sea's treachery, your jubilation is tempered by the rage that so much fresh water should fall directly into the sea and by the worry that it is the last rain you will ever see, that you will die of thirst before the next drops fall.†   (source)
  • "Bad in your head," said the Pirate King, who was now only the boy from his class and they were in the school hall, not the deck of the pirate ship, although the storm had not abated and the floor of the hall pitched and rolled like a ship at sea.†   (source)
  • The storm had abated; I was facedown, almost totally buried in sand.†   (source)
  • Harry was not sure his anger had abated yet; but his thirst for information was now overcoming his urge to keep shouting.†   (source)
  • The tightness in her stomach abated, and she sighed through her nose.†   (source)
  • The wild elements were slow to abate, but as the day passed, they wandered elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Day 95 The terrors of the past week have largely abated.†   (source)
  • And only for its duration is their grief slightly abated, the enforced absence of certain foods on their plates conjuring his father's presence somehow.†   (source)
  • He hopes the rains will abate.†   (source)
  • Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.†   (source)
  • By the time he got to the Upland Highway it was full dark, but the snowstorm showed no sign of abating.†   (source)
  • The research was part of a study examining lead abatement methods, and all families involved were black.†   (source)
  • The rain had abated.†   (source)
  • As the night faded into day, he began to tire, but my rage never abated.†   (source)
  • His common sense told him that he would hsive to find a woman, and once he had made up his mind, the terrible anxiety that afflicted him began to ebb and his fury seemed to abate.†   (source)
  • And still the gunfire never abated.†   (source)
  • At Hopkins we're talking about three, and possibly a fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery, because we have such a high volume of cases, and we see no signs of its abating.†   (source)
  • Then the winds suddenly abated for a moment, and miraculously Happenstance began to right itself, the mast rising slightly into the ebony sky.†   (source)
  • But the storm abated on the third day, after the port of Guayra, and by that time they had spent so much time together and had talked so much that they felt like old friends.†   (source)
  • The sky remained dark around us, but the clouds of dust abated somewhat.†   (source)
  • Something should have happened at that point: the fire should have abated.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, they quickly abated, and the girls were not that affected by them.†   (source)
  • But by midmorning the storm had begun to abate, and the distant sounds of plows grated through the still air.†   (source)
  • When there had been no sign of her behaviour abating after a fortnight or so, I think you will understand that I started to become a little impatient.†   (source)
  • When the liaison so casually begun survived the first encounters, when a kind of shy affection began to force itself up through the frozen ground, and shame abated, chaos more than ever ruled.†   (source)
  • His agitation seemed to abate as we walked through the waving grass, though his eyes still stabbed at the air around him and occasionally at me.†   (source)
  • This would help to abate the expected protests from the Irish community over the police chief's dismissal; and since the city would underwrite the costs, and the alderman could use the construction to support his bid for mayor in the next election, it would importune neither man.†   (source)
  • The wind was much abated and it was very cold and the sun sat blood red and elliptic under the reefs of bloodred cloud before him.†   (source)
  • When the storm abated and they rode out to check the cattle he tied an old flannel shirt over his ears and they still felt frozen.†   (source)
  • The three women sat talking about various miseries they had had, their cure or abatement, what had helped.†   (source)
  • By this time next year, you and Hardwick will be wanting to have me abated as a nuisance.†   (source)
  • The rain had begun in mid-afternoon, had shortly reached a crescendo, the clouds like broken dams, and then abated.†   (source)
  • If a good bleeding can bring those Bible-faced Yankees to their senses, the fever of independency should soon abate.†   (source)
  • Then she picked me up in her arms and the terror abated for a while.†   (source)
  • So the violence abated.†   (source)
  • he kept shrieking with no abatement of terror as the flak thumped and mushroomed all about him.†   (source)
  • I stumbled for the sanctuary of the bedroom, hoping to lock myself in until Moody's fury abated.†   (source)
  • I've had a touch of neuralgia but you shouldn't worry as the doctor says it's merely the strain of caring for your father and will abate when you are home again and able to help shoulder the burden as a good daughter should.†   (source)
  • It was bitter cold when we arrived, and the wind did not abate.†   (source)
  • We knew it might be many weeks before we could hope to see, from our efforts, some abatement in the death roll.†   (source)
  • Coating the rock were layers of volcanic dust that spiraled up in the whipping wind that never seemed to abate, getting in the boys' eyes, flavoring their food.†   (source)
  • But by the time Thomas reached the sandy wash, their fear had abated.†   (source)
  • Slowly the stones in the floor stopped heaving under him, and the blinding pain abated, leaving him with a headache marginally less fierce.†   (source)
  • Esme's sobs abated as she watched hint bend the clay man's legs and sit him on the edge of the tub.†   (source)
  • The storm did not abate.†   (source)
  • The threat of dying from thirst had been abated somewhat, however, from a large three-masted ship.†   (source)
  • Daddy has been sentenced to pain abatement à la OxyContin.†   (source)
  • She had a fever that would not abate, and she had severe headaches.†   (source)
  • In the night, when the anguish which had followed my father's visit was somewhat abated, I lay awake, puzzling.†   (source)
  • His sense of falling did not abate.†   (source)
  • He would, although, paradoxically, it inflamed more than abated his homesickness to try a mouthful of a dish and pronounce, after some prodding, that it was too salty, too sweet, too spicy-hot.†   (source)
  • "And it would not be quite fair to Miraz," Peter continued, "to have in sight anything that might abate the edge of his courage."†   (source)
  • He stared at the glass ball till the snowstorm had abated somewhat.†   (source)
  • The storm will abate by the morning.†   (source)
  • The fatigue would not abate, for even after her return, sleep eluded her.†   (source)
  • Yes, Joseph Addison I hear and I will obey within Reason, for it appears that the Curiosity you speak of has in no Way abated.†   (source)
  • But that feeling of separateness abates, it must, when one is in labor, crying, then screaming, then laughing, and then hearing some other woman doing the same.†   (source)
  • This condition rarely lasted for more than a day, for the repair trucks were out as soon as the wind abated and the roads became passable.†   (source)
  • Abate, with a last womanly caress,
    The bitterness to me of this predestined hour.†   (source)
  • The storm abated.†   (source)
  • By midmorning the storm had abated, although a continuous drizzle still percolated through the mist.†   (source)
  • The pain , except for the excruciating agony of his left knee , seemed to have abated a tiny bit.†   (source)
  • After the storm abated, the lone remaining astronaut performed a full inspection of the Hab.†   (source)
  • He doubted if she would be back tonight; far from abating, the storm was gaining strength.†   (source)
  • When the wind abated for an instant, her hackles stood.†   (source)
  • But the unnerving stillness in her eyes abated, at least.†   (source)
  • Even the pain of his broken hand, now badly swollen, had abated.†   (source)
  • Though Eragon had eaten and then rested for perhaps an hour, his weariness had not entirely abated.†   (source)
  • For shame had not so much abated as found a partner.†   (source)
  • Phoebe's wheezing had abated and her color had improved; her cheeks were faintly pink.†   (source)
  • His magic soon took effect, and wound by wound, her pain abated, but it did not disappear entirely.†   (source)
  • The relief she felt as her pain abated was so intense, it bordered on ecstasy.†   (source)
  • The wind abates, the sun comes out, the trail across is flat—frozen seawater—and the dogs are well rested.†   (source)
  • The storm abated.†   (source)
  • The Department of Health and Human Services launched an investigation and concluded that the study's consent forms "failed to provide an adequate description" of the different levels of lead abatement in the homes.†   (source)
  • She waved to him as if they were old friends, she invited him to have coffee while the confusion abated, and he was delighted to accept (although it was not his custom to drink coffee) and to listen to her talk about herself, which was the only thing that had interested him since the morning and the only thing that was going to interest him, without a moment's respite, during the months to follow.†   (source)
  • It was hot, and the stench of it was unmistakable, the cordite was heavy in the air, and the noise, which had not abated since they first opened fire, was deafening.†   (source)
  • The noise in the hall had abated; perhaps Mrs Weasley and Mundungus had moved their argument down into the kitchen.†   (source)
  • After his initial discomfort abated, Orik said to Eragon, "I doubt I could ever be comfortable in the air, but I can understand why you and Saphira enjoy it so.†   (source)
  • The firestorm abated after a couple of weeks, but every so often I encounter a smoldering ember in the form of glaring eyes or people crossing the street to avoid me.†   (source)
  • The tightness in her chest abated only slightly when she couldn't find Cain's face among the revelers.†   (source)
  • As long as he was busy he was happy; when the action abated, however, whenever he dropped his guard, or lay exhausted in bed watching blurred shadows move across the ceiling, the thought of the looming Ministry hearing returned to him.†   (source)
  • According to your latest satellite data, the dust storm in Arabia Terra isn't abating at all, and will block eighty percent of the sunlight?†   (source)
  • They would stop and huddle underneath a tree until the storm abated, but even then water cached in the myriad branches would, at the slightest provocation, shower them with droplets for hours afterward.†   (source)
  • He jumped and stabbed in a fevered frenzy, Fighting the shadows massed before him...The siege on Eragon's mind abated as Saphira and the red dragon crashed together, two incandescent meteors colliding head-on.†   (source)
  • By the time the police drove up, Shadrack was suffering from a blinding headache, which was not abated by the comfort he felt when the policemen pulled his hands away from what he thought was a permanent entanglement with his shoelaces.†   (source)
  • At which point the revelry mixed with meanness abated and King Walker handed Milkman his Winchester .22.†   (source)
  • Late that night, when all was cold and black, the wind abated and, thereafter, only occasionally buffeted them with a gust.†   (source)
  • By Wednesday, Luke's headache had abated slightly, but he feared he wouldn't be well enough to compete in Macon, Georgia, over the coming weekend.†   (source)
  • The pains in his chest abated.†   (source)
  • By the time the storm abated and the surviving passengers and crew came crawling back on deck, like pale pink worms wriggling to the surface after a rain, the Selaesori Qhoran was a broken thing, floating low in the water and listing ten degrees to port, her hull sprung in half a hundred places, her hold awash in seawater, her mast a splintered ruin no taller than a dwarf.†   (source)
  • Although by any rational standard I was still at high altitude-21,300 feet-this place felt manifestly different from the South Col. The murderous wind had completely abated.†   (source)
  • The rain was abating.†   (source)
  • Inevitably the horse slowed down, but its panic determination to get away from the guns abated very little.†   (source)
  • The black storm within Glaedr abated somewhat, although it remained vast and threatening, teetering on the edge of renewed violence.†   (source)
  • As Saphira soared between two bulging white columns—beside which she was no more than a speck—and the sea vanished beneath a field of pillow-like clouds, the headwind abated and the air grew rough and choppy, swirling about them without an identifiable direction.†   (source)
  • But if doom denies this to me, then I will have naught: neither life diminished, nor love halved, nor honour abated.†   (source)
  • The pain in her hands was abated, and it seemed to her that her fingers were straighter, the knuckles not so swollen.†   (source)
  • The mother-in-law problem is abated because the new daughter has a privacy she never had and a place of her own in which to build the structure of a family.†   (source)
  • Today the frenzy of her grief had abated, giving way to a weary numbness; she sat in silence, though still only half conscious of herself or her surroundings.†   (source)
  • She kept waiting for the power to abate, but it remained at high water with no sign of waning.†   (source)
  • With Arya's return and your arrival, I expect the queen's hostility will abate.†   (source)
  • After a few seconds of tense, gut-feel physics, he felt the force on the tether abate.†   (source)
  • The threat to keep us subservient did not abate.†   (source)
  • I covered my ears with my hands, but the fanatical roar would not abate.†   (source)
  • He clutched at a tuft of grass, using it as an anchor while he waited for the dizziness to abate.†   (source)
  • But Faramir burned with a fever that would not abate.†   (source)
  • He was still there on the second week of the following June when the rain began to abate and the clouds began to lift and it was obvious from one moment to the next that it was going to clear.†   (source)
  • I did not believe her, so certain I was-even though night after night I had to lead her away from men and women she could no longer drain dry, so satiated was she with the blood of earlier kills, often lifting her victims off their feet in her passion, crushing their throats with her ivory fingers as surely as she drank their blood-so certain I was that sooner or later this mad intensity must abate, and she would take hold of the trappings of this nightmare, her own luminescent flesh, these lavish rooms of the Hotel Saint-Gabriel, and cry out to be awakened; to be free.†   (source)
  • The clock in the church tower began to chime the hour of twelve — the hour when, her mother had told her, the door between life and death sways open a bit and the dead may pass both ways — and it was all Mrs. Ramage could do to keep herself from shrieking and fleeing in a panic which would not abate but grow stronger with each step; if she began running, she knew, she would simply run until she fell down insensible.†   (source)
  • We fell to the floor of my dressing room in a tangle of white silk and a mutual hunger that did not abate until the silk was torn and my dear husband carried deep scratches down his back.†   (source)
  • His affection for her was of a kind that neither time nor place could abate, he insisted, knowing, as she did, that he could not abandon his duties.†   (source)
  • All day Saturday, I waited for the storm to abate, but nature seemed to have other ideas, and it wasn't until midmorning Sunday that the sky began to clear.†   (source)
  • It did not abate throughout the night.†   (source)
  • For if we could be allowed to see the Plague as a thing in Nature merely, we did not have to trouble about some grand celestial design that had to be completed before the disease would abate.†   (source)
  • Notwithstanding which, he continued to defend himself, without any abatement of his flushed mood.†   (source)
    abatement = the act of reducing in amount or intensity; or the condition of having been reduced in amount or intensity
  • He refuses to make any abatement, because his threat is, that if he fails with me, he will come to you.†   (source)
  • He felt that he could leave her with a quiet mind to tread the paths of distinction, and wished—but without abatement of patronage, and without prejudice to the retiring virtues of his favourite child—that he had such another daughter.†   (source)
  • [The storm abates a little and Laura leans back†   (source)
  • When David saw that the rabbi brandished his scourge several times without wielding it, his fear abated somewhat.†   (source)
  • Though when he learned that the Republicans did have a name for it, he completely changed the name of his conviction without abating his principles or behavior one jot.†   (source)
  • It was a long time that they sat there, and it was not until they heard the rushing of the streams, of dead rivers come to life, that they knew that the storm was abating.†   (source)
  • But one by one, seeing that the epidemic showed no sign of abating, they moved out to stay with friends.†   (source)
  • It was night at Marygreen, and the rain of the afternoon showed no sign of abatement.†   (source)
  • Joan waited, listening with abated breathing.†   (source)
  • And the storm had not abated, the wind had not changed, and the tide was rapidly drawing out.†   (source)
  • At night in the cool winds the fever abated and she slept.†   (source)
  • She had not thought of this, and her hysteria abated.†   (source)
  • Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating.†   (source)
  • Wind abating, seas still terrific, but feel them less, as ship is steadier.†   (source)
  • When the snow storm abated a moment we looked again.†   (source)
  • When a thing suited him he paid the price demanded, without thinking to ask for any abatement.†   (source)
  • The morrow produced no abatement of Mrs. Bennet's ill-humor or ill health.†   (source)
  • But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he assigns it.†   (source)
  • But towards six the storm abated, and a drier breeze shook the moisture from the grass bents.†   (source)
  • Dr. Stockmann (when the noise has somewhat abated).†   (source)
  • The night was fearful; no abatement of the storm.†   (source)
  • Still, there was no abatement in the storm, but it blew harder.†   (source)
  • Autumn came, with a pleasant abatement of heat.†   (source)
  • An old man, yet his eye is not dim, nor his natural force abated.†   (source)
  • The latter was not yet ended, when the sensation among the men had entirely abated.†   (source)
  • The stationer's heart begins to thump heavily, for his old apprehensions have never abated.†   (source)
  • more high, more high
    Or we shall be belated:
    For slow and slow that ship will go,
    When the Mariner's trance is abated.†   (source)
  • Carley, clutching her support, with abated breath and prickling skin, gazed in fascinated suspense over the rim of the gorge.†   (source)
  • It was still early when K. noticed, through the keyhole, that there was an unusual level of activity in the hallway which soon abated.†   (source)
  • The latter was, as she admitted, growing old, but her black eyes were not dim nor the vigor of her tongue in the least abated.†   (source)
  • The snow had somewhat abated; carriages and tradesmen's wagons were hurrying soundlessly to and fro in the winter twilight; boys in woolen mufflers were shoveling off the doorsteps; the avenue stages made fine spots of color against the white street.†   (source)
  • Maud laughed at my crestfallen expression, and I said, "As soon as the wind abates I intend going in the boat to explore the island.†   (source)
  • She could see from the scrupulous care which he exercised in the matter of his personal appearance that his interest in life had abated not a jot.†   (source)
  • When Eliza referred again to her project of teaching phonetics, Higgins abated not a jot of his violent opposition to it.†   (source)
  • The floods had abated and the Rajah was officially dead, so the Guest House party were departing next morning, as decorum required.†   (source)
  • At sight of this Sue's nerves utterly gave way, an awful conviction that her discourse with the boy had been the main cause of the tragedy, throwing her into a convulsive agony which knew no abatement.†   (source)
  • The storm had abated just too late; the tide was by then too far out to allow a vessel to put off to sea.†   (source)
  • She felt that the man was gentle, and that his interest in her had not abated, and it made her suffer a pang of regret.†   (source)
  • My clothes were beginning to rot; my stockings in particular were quite worn through, so that my shanks went naked; my hands had grown quite soft with the continual soaking; my throat was very sore, my strength had much abated, and my heart so turned against the horrid stuff I was condemned to eat, that the very sight of it came near to sicken me.†   (source)
  • WEST WIND When the storm abated Venters sought his own cave, and late in the night, as his blood cooled and the stir and throb and thrill subsided, he fell asleep.†   (source)
  • The discussions and disputes concerning the last shot were now abating, it having been determined that if the turkey's head had been anywhere but just where it was at that moment, the bird must certainly have been killed.†   (source)
  • She knew I did; for the stateliness of her manner already abated towards me, except when she spoke in praise of him, and then her air was always lofty.†   (source)
  • He had largely abated his deference afterwards, for he economised his resources, but the impression was made, and the young man's very brutality came to have a sort of filial value.†   (source)
  • His sons, so soon as the first emotions of surprise had a little abated, drew slowly around him, and, as they who governed the teams gradually followed their example, the whole party was soon condensed in one, silent, and wondering group.†   (source)
  • The better class of the community exerted their influence to save the innocent, persecuted people; and in several instances they succeeded, by keeping them shut up in jail till the excitement abated.†   (source)
  • By degrees the wind abated, vast gray clouds rolled towards the west, and the blue firmament appeared studded with bright stars.†   (source)
  • About this hour the snow abated: ten flakes fell where twenty had fallen, then one had the room of ten.†   (source)
  • As, according to her own statement, this surgical operation was a matter of daily occurrence in the cabin, the declaration no whit abated the merriment, till every one had roared and tumbled and danced themselves down to a state of composure.†   (source)
  • But immediately afterward Maggie had reflected that if she drove many nails in she would not be so well able to fancy that the head was hurt when she knocked it against the wall, nor to comfort it, and make believe to poultice it, when her fury was abated; for even aunt Glegg would be pitiable when she had been hurt very much, and thoroughly humiliated, so as to beg her niece's pardon.†   (source)
  • But I must confess that in another hour this unnatural excitement abated, my nerves became unstrung, and from the depths of the abysses of this earth I ascended to its surface again.†   (source)
  • It may be answered meanwhile, in regard to Shakespeare's and to George Eliot's testimony, that their concession to the "importance" of their Juliets and Cleopatras and Portias (even with Portia as the very type and model of the young person intelligent and presumptuous) and to that of their Hettys and Maggies and Rosamonds and Gwendolens, suffers the abatement that these slimnesses are, when figuring as the main props of the theme, never suffered to be sole ministers of its appeal, but have their inadequacy eked out with comic relief and underplots, as the playwrights say, when not with murders and battles and the great mutations of the world.†   (source)
  • Under-tow or upper-tow, the gale has abated; and, fortunately for us all, the anchors have met with good holding-ground.†   (source)
  • He walked up one street, and down another, until exercise had abated the first passion of his grief; and then the revulsion of feeling made him thirsty.†   (source)
  • Judith, as soon as her surprise and alarm had a little abated, discovered a proper share of affectionate joy at the return of her sister.†   (source)
  • She had made large concessions with regard to her, and had yet insisted that, with all abatements, she was very valuable.†   (source)
  • They sat in that way without looking at each other, until the rain abated and began to fall in stillness.†   (source)
  • It was the third hour of the day, and many of the people had gone away; yet the press continued without apparent abatement.†   (source)
  • I have said that, in the first years of our connexion as schoolmates, my feelings in regard to him might have been easily ripened into friendship: but, in the latter months of my residence at the academy, although the intrusion of his ordinary manner had, beyond doubt, in some measure, abated, my sentiments, in nearly similar proportion, partook very much of positive hatred.†   (source)
  • The shower greatly abated, the lightning ceased, the thunder rolled among the distant hills, and the sun began to glisten on the wet leaves and the falling rain.†   (source)
  • Thoroughly overpowered with the notion of Mr. Chitling being the victim of the tender passion, Master Bates threw himself back in his chair with such violence, that he lost his balance, and pitched over upon the floor; where (the accident abating nothing of his merriment) he lay at full length until his laugh was over, when he resumed his former position, and began another laugh.†   (source)
  • But still driving on in the wake of the whales, at length they seemed abating their speed; gradually the ship neared them; and the wind now dying away, word was passed to spring to the boats.†   (source)
  • The smoke-serpents were indifferent who was lost or found, who turned out bad or good; the melancholy mad elephants, like the Hard Fact men, abated nothing of their set routine, whatever happened.†   (source)
  • It was near noon when the gale broke; and then its force abated as suddenly as its violence had arisen.†   (source)
  • By-and-by the gladness in the faces of the populace changed a little, and became touched with a something like solicitude or anxiety: an abatement in the volume of the applause was observable too.†   (source)
  • This hope his mother and sister shared with him; and as the object of their joint solicitude seemed to have no uneasiness or despondency for himself, but each day answered with a quiet smile that he felt better than he had upon the day before, their fears abated, and the general happiness was by degrees restored.†   (source)
  • But the danger had now abated, for a time at least; and if his authority was not restored with all its former influence, it was admitted to exist, and to maintain its ascendency a little longer.†   (source)
  • The path from the wood leads to a morass, and from thence to a ford, which, as the rains have abated, may now be passable.†   (source)
  • —'Nevertheless,' replied the jeweller, 'if by the time I have finished my supper the tempest has at all abated, I shall make another start.'†   (source)
  • She never abated the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the distinctness or the order of her words.†   (source)
  • But no. Half-past twelve o'clock came; Turkey began to glow in the face, overturn his inkstand, and become generally obstreperous; Nippers abated down into quietude and courtesy; Ginger Nut munched his noon apple; and Bartleby remained standing at his window in one of his profoundest dead-wall reveries.†   (source)
  • Her dejection had no abatement from anything passing around her; a friend or two of her father's, as always happened if he was not with them, spent the long, long evening there; and from six o'clock till half-past nine, there was little intermission of noise or grog.†   (source)
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