Ebbed
[ebd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Ebb
Typist: Wolfgang
Examples
- Through the heart of the town a deadly sewer ebbed and flowed, in the place of a fine fresh river. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The tide ebbed, and the tide flowed; the summer went on, and the autumn came. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She shared it with him; and lingering on without pain, but without hope, her life ebbed slowly away. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The world had passed away from him, as his strength ebbed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When the tide ebbed, the town was left dry; but on its flow, it rose even higher than on the preceding night. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But many things have told against me in my practice, and it really just now has ebbed to a low point. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Wolfgang