Diminishing

Examples

• The hunters of the third and last stage of the later Pal?olithic Age appear to have supplemented a diminishing food supply by fishing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We could thus take care of a snow-storm by diminishing the bulk of material to be handled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But instead of diminishing their claims to approbation and reward, it places those claims on a more substantial foundation than that of abstract original ideas. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Further on Wells remarks that this diminishing actuality of our political life is a matter of almost universal comment to-day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This tribe accordingly went on diminishing, till there remained in their town on the manor but twenty persons, viz. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This new battery was strong enough to pass a powerful current through the magnet without materially diminishing the strength of the line current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The only way of diminishing the evil is either to limit a man in his use of his property, or to insist that he shall lend at his own risk. Plato. The Republic.
• In her eyes Tracy Tupman was a youth; she viewed his years through a diminishing glass. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The sabre-toothed tiger was diminishing towards extinction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Ursula looked with hatred on the buffers of the diminishing wagon. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Their use on many other vehicles has accomplished his objects, of lessening the power required to draw carriages, rendering the motion easier, and diminishing the noise. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Thus he lay through the diminishing days and lengthening nights of the whole drear month of November. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The scarcity of a dear year, by diminishing the demand for labour, tends to lower its price, as the high price of provisions tends to raise it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He also carried his small triangular shield, broad enough at the top to protect the breast, and from thence diminishing to a point. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Then I glanced below me, and there I saw a rapidly diminishing circle of light--the mouth of the opening above the phosphorescent radiance of Omean. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They were not only more surly; they were diminishing the output, and it became impossible to manage the works. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then there was a great swerve at the bottom, when they swung as it were in a fall to earth, in the diminishing motion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The quantity sown per acre is governed by simply increasing or diminishing the speed of the feed wheel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The merchant or monied man makes money by lending money to government, and instead of diminishing, increases his trading capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• London did not contain above a thousand inhabitants; and this number was continually diminishing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It abated because, among other influences, the social differences between patricians and plebeians were diminishing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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