Recede

Examples

• If you stare at a checkerboard you can see it as black on red, or red on black, as series of horizontal, vertical or diagonal steps which recede or protrude. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• De Bracy and I will instantly go among these shuffling cowards, and convince them they have gone too far to recede. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They buffet with opposing waves, to gain the bloody shore, not to recede from it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He had, in truth, gone too far to recede; and yet, in Rowena's present condition, she could not be acted on either by argument or threats. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I must make him room, and I must request the pupils to recede that _I_ might recede. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Do you then intend, now in time of peril, to recede from your duties? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This work was continued until the waters of the river began to recede and the road to Richmond, Louisiana, emerged from the water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I thought he receded; I thought he would go. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Then a shuttle, also carrying a stout thread, was thrown over the cord, the needle receded and was then forced through the broom again _under_ the binding cord. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• She felt she was powerless, and receded; and again she trembled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This could not be undertaken until the waters receded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As the waters of the planet dried and the seas receded, all other resources dwindled until life upon the planet became a constant battle for survival. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• For thousands of years it advanced, and then for thousands of years it receded, to advance again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As the fighting receded from our position for a moment, Thuvia turned toward me with a question. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• 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.
• At this point the water recedes a few hundred yards from the high land. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As the magnet recedes from the coil, it carries lines of force away with it, this time reducing the number of the lines which cut the coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As iron approaches and recedes from the magnet, current is induced in the wire surrounding the magnet. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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