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Updated: May 26, 2025
I can make a waxen image of you, and I can say words which, as the wax image melts before the fire, will make you dwindle away and at last perish miserably. 'Pooh! said Cyril stoutly, 'that's nothing. I can make FIRE itself! 'I should jolly well like to see you do it, said the priest unbelievingly. 'Well, you shall, said Cyril, 'nothing easier. Just stand close round me.
The dramatic proportions to which ale will exalt the sentiments within us, and our delivery of them, are apt to dwindle and shrink even below the natural elevation when we look back on them from the hither shore of the river of sleep in other words, wake in the morning: and it was with no very self-satisfied emotions that Evan, dressing by the full light of day, reviewed his share in the events of the preceding night.
With him patriotism seemed at this moment to dwindle into provincialism, the statesman to shrink into the lawyer. Certainly there was no guilt in the proceedings. There was no crime in the heart of the Advocate. He had exhausted himself with appeals in favour of moderation, conciliation, compromise.
When a regiment became reduced by the necessary wear and tear of service, instead of being filled up at the bottom, and the vacancies among the officers filled from the best noncommissioned officers and men, the habit was to raise new regiments, with new colonels, captains, and men, leaving the old and experienced battalions to dwindle away into mere skeleton organizations.
Take out of the soil and out of the rocks all that they owe to the air, the oxygen and the carbon, and how would they dwindle! The limestone rocks would practically disappear. Probably not less that one fourth of all the sedimentary rocks are limestone, which is of animal origin.
But you've never told me, or anyone, that the engagement was broken off." Her young face was set sternly as she looked into the fire. "It's not broken off in the formal sense. Leonard thought fit to let it dwindle, and it has dwindled until it has perished of inanition." She flashed round. "I'm not the sort to ask any man for explanations." "Boyce went out with the first lot in August," I said.
The thought of her passing out of his life rested upon him like an intolerable burden. To be in doubt of her afflicted him with anguish. That the fires of her affection might dwindle and die before daily sight of him loomed before Hollister as the consummation of disaster, and he seemed to feel that hovering near, closely impending. That they had lived together sixteen months did not count.
She had no business friends to advise her, for the few acquaintances she made at Rosebury knew nothing whatever of the value of money. Like many another woman who has been brought up in affluence, neither had Mrs. Mainwaring the faintest idea of how fast a small sum like £1,000 can dwindle.
"Oh, my Gawd!" "There are ten million people doomed to starve. Their children eat grass, and their bellies swell up and their legs dwindle to broom-sticks; they stagger and fall into the ditches, and other children tear their flesh and devour it." "O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-oh!" wailed Maw; and the diners at Prince's began to stare. "Now looka here!" cried T-S, wildly.
Now bearing in mind that Massachusetts is essentially a Yankee State, where comparatively few European emigrants settle, it seems probable that, going back several generations, the numbers, even of Massachusetts men, who may be truly called "Americans" would dwindle considerably.
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