receeded

Updated: June 2, 2025

So terrifying was the effect upon me, that, for a few moments, I could not persuade myself that it was but an echo I heard. The blood surged to my heart and receeded so suddenly, that I was hardly able to sit erect upon my horse. As soon as I could speak, I said, "Come, let us go back, Jerry. I want to get out of this, as soon as I can."

Samuel Woodworth Cozzens - The Young Trail Hunters : Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West

When the snows are melted in the spring, and the floods have receeded from the streams, the exploring parties are sent into the mountains. Each officer has a particular valley assigned him, and commands a well equipped body of men. He is expected to remain in the mountains until he has finished his work, or until compelled to leave by the approach of winter.

Thomas Wallace Knox - Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar: Life

Little peaks of land emerged from the water or it seemed as if the water receeded from them, and gradually the dry land appeared, and soon queer livin' forms appeared on it. And gradually, with green grass and verdure, it become fit for the home of man, and then Adam and Eve appeared.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at Coney Island: and a Thousand Other Islands

I had watched the passengers with a eagle vision but no Josiah embarked, but the air-ship sailed off, the earth receeded, we wuz in the clouds, anon we passed through a big thunder storm, I wuz almost lost in thought watchin' sea and ocean when the captain called out: "The Moon! the Moon!" And we alighted and got off, I a-thinkin' what and who wuz I to see in thet place I'd always hankered for.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at Coney Island: and a Thousand Other Islands