wane
Definition: To diminish in size and brilliancy
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Vivian Grey - By Benjamin Disraeli
...No wonder that Beckendorff 's power is on the wane, for he appears to me to be growing childish ....
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - By Mark Twain, American Publishing Company
...When the interest in art began to wane, the two fell to talking ....
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...Our own fireside is never drear, Though late and wintry wane the year, Though rough the night may be . "...
My - By Willa Cather, Wladyslaw Theodore Benda
...His zest in debauchery might wane, but never Mrs. Cutter 's belief in it ....
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...By a chance, which added yet more to the intensity of the darkness, the moon, which was on the wane, did not rise until eleven o'clock, and the streets which the young man traversed were plunged in the deepest obscurity ....
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - By James Joyce
...But the tide was near the turn and already the day was on the wane ....
Pilgrim's Progress - By John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Frank Cheyne Pape
...How he presumes To drive all before him I But so soon As Faithful talks of Heart-work, like the Moon That 's past the full, into the wane he goes ....
Ben-Hur - By Lew Wallace, Joseph Autier
...In every black tent down to the Akaba and to the ocean, and across to the Euphrates, and beyond to the sea of the Scythians, the renown of my Mira and her children will go; and they who sing of them will magnify ine, and forget that I am in the wane of life; and all the spears now mastcrless will come to me, and my sword-hands multiply past counting ....
At the Back of the North Wind - By George MacDonald
...So 1 decree that if she wakes all night she shall wax and wane with its mistress the moon ....
The Ambassadors - By Henry James
...Her appearance was really indeed funnier than anything else--the spirit in which he felt her to be there as soon as she was there, the shade of obscurity that cleared up for him as soon as he was seated with her in the small salon de lecture that had, for the most part, in all the weeks, witnessed the wane of his early vivacity of discussion with Waymarsh ....
The Magnificent Ambersons - By Booth Tarkington, Arthur William Brown, Doubleday, Page & Company, Country Life Press
...ing, `` O moon of my delight that knows no wane "--and there was no further conversation on the back seat ....
Barchester Towers - By Anthony Trollope, Michael Sadleir
...It introduced his readers, too, to Barchester, and to some of the personages proper to thit city who re-appear, and wax or wane in the second story ....
The American - By Henry James
...He continued to measure the length of the little salle of the Armes de France until the day began to wane, when he went forth to keep his rendezvous with Mrs. Bread ....
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - By Laurence Sterne, John Hall-Stevenson
...for one pair of -LCB- houlders, ` Tis true we are endued with an imperfed power of fpreading our happihels ibtnetiroes beyond her limits, but ` ris fo ordered, that from the wane of languages, connections, and dependencies, and from the difference in education, cuftorns and habits, ....