Receding

Examples

• Scarcely had it started than I gave the signal to Tars Tarkas, simultaneously springing for the receding half of the pivoting door. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The ice was receding, vegetation was increasing, big game of all sorts was becoming more abundant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The receding footsteps of the speaker were heard; and, in another minute, the form of Mr. John Dawkins, otherwise the Artful Dodger, appeared. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It burnt on, however, quite steadily, neither receding nor advancing. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As the receding wave swept back with a hoarse roar, it seemed to scoop out deep caves in the beach, as if its purpose were to undermine the earth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• During this interval she had become a less vivid and importunate image, receding from his foreground as May Welland resumed her rightful place in it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Her face, encompassed by the blackness of the receding heath, showed whitely, and with-out half-lights, like a cameo. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Longstreet, in his retreat, would be moving towards his supplies, while our forces, following, would be receding from theirs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Lovely, grateful silence seemed to trail behind the receding train. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Watson has remarked, in receding from polar toward equatorial latitudes, the Alpine or mountain flora really become less and less Arctic. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• A cloud of smoke drifted over the last ridge that he could see in the high country and the planes were three steadily receding specks in the sky. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He could still hear the receding drone. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The boat was gliding out on the receding tide. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The stretching and drawing of these thicker parts down to a uniform size by the receding of the carriage is the distinctive feature of its action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It showed him the room, and the bills upon the wall respecting the drowned people starting out and receding by turns. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Edited by Darrell