Diminished

Examples

• The value of the most barren land is not diminished by the neighbourhood of the most fertile. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The freedom of choice which this allows him, is therefore much greater, and the difficulty of his task much more diminished, than at first appears. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land, and the wages of labour, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In our poultry, a large tuft of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb, and a large beard by diminished wattles. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The profits of stock would be diminished, both really and in appearance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thus, we talked of them, and moralized, as with diminished numbers we returned to Windsor Castle. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The reddleman watched his form as it diminished to a speck on the road and became absorbed in the thickening films of night. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• After numerous experiments, in which the dimensions of the screw were successively diminished, the propeller was at length reduced to two oblique blades. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I shall, however, if it is not diminished by some accident before my death, leave a considerable estate among my descendants and relations. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In the course of from three or four days to as many weeks the freckles will either have disappeared entirely or their intensity will be very greatly diminished. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Birkin, white and diminished, looked on as if he were displeased. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But the rents of every class of houses for which the competition was diminished, would necessarily be more or less reduced. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Age and heat have not diminished the activity or the eloquence of the descendant of the Malonys and the Molloys. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The labour necessary to bring the lands to this sort of culture, employed and fed the offcasts of the diminished manufactories. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She suffered when she felt her day was diminished, she felt she had missed her life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Her appetite was diminished; she knew the reason. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He had diminished the distance rapidly, but not so rapidly as to come up with Monseigneur on the road. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Susan uttered the lugubrious discourse three times slowly, and when it was completed the image had considerably diminished. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing much trace of ill-usage except in a diminished play of feature. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The wire-drawing of metals depends on the property of solid bodies, which renders them capable of being extended without any separation of their parts, while their thickness is diminished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Deerhurst's stock of assurance was not to be diminished by two mere boys. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Nor was the agitation by any means diminished, when the scout rushed back with the intelligence that the lady was 'a slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This army demanded high wages and materially increased the cost of reaping the crop, and sadly diminished the profits. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The angle may be diminished if the bore of the tube is increased. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• John did not find Meg's beauty diminished, though she beamed at him from behind the familiar coffee pot. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The impatience of Cedric had been rather enhanced than diminished by his confinement. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Miss Rugg, perhaps making up some of her arrears, likewise took very kindly to the mutton, and it rapidly diminished to the bone. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• So necessary are the visits of bees to many papilionaceous flowers, that their fertility is greatly diminished if these visits be prevented. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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