Abated

Examples

• His anger had not abated; it was rather rising the more as his sense of immediate danger was passing away. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The path from the wood leads to a morass, and from thence to a ford, which, as the rains have abated, may now be passable. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She never abated the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the distinctness or the order of her words. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The violence of our party debates about the new constitution seems much abated, indeed almost extinct, and we are getting fast into good order. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The stationer's heart begins to thump heavily, for his old apprehensions have never abated. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At last the fever abated and the boy commenced to mend. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• By the last of August the cholera had so abated that it was deemed safe to start. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Thereafter the struggle between the orders abated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The steamer, however, could not proceed until the cholera abated, and the regiment was detained still longer. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They sat in that way without looking at each other, until the rain abated and began to fall in stillness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• 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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