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1. As the couple’s time of fecundity faded, and as their reserves of money and physical strength began to dwindle, Eileen prayed to every saint under the sun for a child
2. physical strength began to dwindle, Eileen prayed to every saint
3. "That poet was wrong" said Mary Dwindle, "There's not even a breath of a breeze up here - its so quite and peaceful
4. Mary Dwindle helped ladle it onto the floor only to find to her horror that it was pure honey
5. Seaboy partnered Mary Dwindle who, small though she was, kicked up her heels and dreamed of the sea, and sailing ships, and dolphins by the score
6. It was later at lunch time when the boy’s were sitting under a tree with Betty Alpha and Mary Dwindle that the girls began to say how much they had learnt that morning
7. ” Mary Dwindle sidled up to Flitter as he dipped his spoon into his bowl of steaming food
8. He glared at Mary Dwindle who had her arms dipped in a large bowl of sudsy water
9. Mary Dwindle looked about her and saw the large boulder directly in front of her
10. Without the interest of junior golfers the professional sport of golf would dwindle
11. they would start to dwindle off, and were probably nice and toasted
12. They picketed party meetings and disrupted canvassing activity during election campaigns, but their membership did not improve, and support started to dwindle
13. the hard things forgotten, for in truth, they dwindle
14. You can easily find yourself involved in a deal where your profit begins to dwindle or you face no sale at all
15. Time appeared to dwindle into a meander
16. But Hitler had allowed this specialist arm to dwindle and decline after suffering major losses in 1941 at Crete against the British
17. That it seems to me my days will soon dwindle away
18. Thus, what we have in our stores now may dwindle quickly before we could get replacement stocks
19. This had the added effect of making the apparent wealth of some of the hierarchy dwindle even faster, as many of the farms had been handed to them to ensure their continued loyalty to the Government
20. They simply have to find a way of sustaining their colossal investments when their oil revenues dwindle
21. Obstacles which seemed like giants in the mist of distance, shall dwindle into nothing when you fairly face them
22. It is far more easy to catch a chill than to impart a glow; and to make each other's religion dwindle away, than grow and prosper
23. “Rivers tend to dwindle once in a while
24. It will get at this situation when its lusts, pleasures, buildings, effects, prestige and authority will dwindle and disappear as if they were not being
25. ” He waved an arm to include the small group, “As you well know, our take from this planet continues to dwindle
26. Even the cows seemed uneasy if I came too close; and in the far-off meadow the mowers stopped mowing to watch us dwindle into dots
27. before food supplies would begin to dwindle
28. But as the food supplies began to dwindle, or parcels become less selective, quarrels broke out
29. started the number of people in the reception center began to dwindle
30. Energy prices have increased and are likely to continue to climb as non-renewable fuel sources dwindle
31. Barbarous nations when they are introduced by Europeans to vice die out; polygamist peoples either import and adopt children from other countries, or dwindle in numbers, or both
32. He insisted on taking all the parcels, and the crowd, having jumped to the conclusion that he was the young woman's husband began to dwindle away, one of the jokers remarking `It's all over!' in a loud voice as he took himself off
33. The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend
34. The priory, currently the beating heart of one of England’s great cities, would dwindle to a lonely outpost in a small village, where a few monks did their devotions in the echoing emptiness of a crumbling cathedral
35. As I sat on the hillside, watching the tail-light dwindle, I reflected on the various kinds of crime I had now sampled
36. Merriwether had stated flatly and loudly that her Maybelle would never take part in such a proceeding; but as Maybelle’s name was called most often and the amount went up to seventy-five dollars, her protests began to dwindle
37. He felt his appetite dwindle into nothingness after Rich Trader's lesson, and disappointment settled on his shoulders
38. Obviously, we want our profits to run, but we are quick on the trigger to bank those profits when they begin to dwindle (and they nearly always will if you hold long enough)
39. Principles dwindle and pale in your constitutional cellar
40. The men watched her dwindle down the road
41. And this disease was called The Loneliness, because when you saw your home town dwindle the size of your fist and then lemon-size and then pin-size and vanish in the fire-wake, you felt you had never been born, there was no town, you were nowhere, with space all around, nothing familiar, only other strange men
42. Someone investing for a 10-year period and getting a return similar to the worst 10-year return over the prior 40 years would see $10,000 dwindle to a little more than $3,000
43. 23 percent per year for ten years, and watching your $10,000 dwindle to $4,724
44. When no longer under the same roof with Edmund, she trusted that Miss Crawford would have no motive for writing strong enough to overcome the trouble, and that at Portsmouth their correspondence would dwindle into nothing
45. In this point of view, all the other questions which have been agitated in the course of this debate dwindle into utter insignificance
46. Once Robert Matthews saw me safely settled, I knew that his neighborly kindness would dwindle; and he was my only possible visitor at present
47. And the effect of the French "municipal regulations" had caused it to dwindle into insignificance
48. all the other questions agitated in this debate dwindle into insignificance, 200;
1. His great pile of cash dwindled slowly at first, but as the weeks progressed the pile seemed to shrink more and more quickly
2. As he dwindled though his sixties and settled into his final decade, it was enough now to look
3. protest and activism dissipated and dwindled, becoming nothing
4. pile of cash dwindled slowly at first, but as the weeks progressed
5. As he dwindled though his sixties and settled into his
6. He couldn’t really miss it - for a start the wide, road-sized surface very soon dwindled into a winding trackway
7. excitement and the crowd slowly dwindled away and after about an hour it was just
8. The wailing dwindled into nothingness, and the echo of pain ended
9. As the fire inside her dwindled, her senses returned and she realized that she was floating high above the head of Tetloan, suspended in the air by the arms of the elf
10. In the distance, Tetloan continued to incinerate the demons, yet with his every success his flames dwindled, and meanwhile, every last demon stormed to his location, lusting to tear him open and feast on the fires within
11. Little by little, the fires dwindled – but the burning heat within his staff remained
12. Mary had also remained faithful to her husband, but the spark of the burning romance of youth had dwindled to a small, flickering flame of the onetime passion that had been felt
13. consequently less numerous, and, by degrees, dwindled away altogether
14. The crowd backstage had finally dwindled to a few
15. As I got older, they dwindled down to a scattered few and I felt some of the magic fade
16. As they climbed the incline, the trees near the lake dwindled, replaced by cleared fields around the garrison
17. Twenty-five dollars worth of chips grew through a thrilling winning streak to eighty-seven, dwindled to thirty-four then in increments grew again to one hundred twelve before she quit
18. It became routine and, in increments too small to be noticed, Sylvia’s time in Costa Rica dwindled to but a day or two
19. The smile on the face of Junior has dwindled to fully
20. ” Eventually everyday Latin dwindled to “a series of demotic dialects,” shorn of the richness of classical Latin that survived only in courts and monasteries
21. But nineteen minutes later, above the vast icefields of northern Debivin, the Dragon Lord himself appeared only ten meters away, surrounded by his dwindled but still vast mobile forces
22. The group dwindled to Nuke, Amy, Marjie, Isabel and me
23. But nineteen minutes later, above the vast icefields of northern Debivin, the Dragon Lord himself appeared only ten yards away, surrounded by his dwindled but still vast mobile forces
24. The sun partially appeared from behind the clouds, and the rain had dwindled down to just a sprinkle
25. The size of the populations of troll folk, dwarves, elves and vampires has dwindled since the internecine destruction of the past conflict
26. But ground-to-air missiles are getting harder to manufacture every year; supplies have dwindled to almost nothing
27. It was a shame the Bible-class had dwindled, however, better one worthy warrior for God than a dozen half-hearted drones
28. The ghostly hissing dwindled off in lustful titterings, and Yasmela moaned and beat the marble tiles with her small fists in her ecstasy of terror
29. Finally, when the tears had dwindled, Roelle heard him say that he loved her
30. 3 As they traveled from city to city, large numbers of their followers deserted to go on to Jerusalem so that, by the time Jesus started for the Passover, the number of those who followed along with him day by day had dwindled to less than two hundred
31. Old money owned the estate and it was well looked after and well resourced, but the total number of staff had gradually dwindled from its peak of over a hundred in the year before the Great War to its present day ten men
32. In 1963 the bald eagle population dwindled to a few hundred
33. tion to perform this sort of overhaul had dwindled to the point
34. As the night dwindled, she made a point of softly stroking his hands
35. His options dwindled as the daydreams intensified
36. The bar room dwindled like a hornets nest that had just
37. The crowd around us dwindled to just a few thousand people who felt it necessary to remain as long as Bob was still here
38. The ups and downs of the Transylvanian mountains had dwindled to mere pimples of their former selves as we rejoined the Danube along the stretch known as the ‘Irongates’
39. In this manner he dwindled down the Klingons until there was only one
40. Whenever they managed to catch a dwarf unawares, he would always feed first, so he stayed strong whilst the weaker ones dwindled and died
41. had passed through them, and without them the troll population had dwindled dramatically
42. However, it had been a terrible struggle, and with the Zimbabwean Dollar devaluing so fast, his father’s wealth had also dwindled to a shadow of its former worth
43. Somewhere in that whirlwind the balcony collected dust, the kitchen dwindled to silence and the nights grew lonely
44. Of increasing concern, especially to the Interior Ministry, was that the loyalty of the police and the armed services appeared to have dwindled to the point where it could no longer be totally relied upon
45. to him, but as Andrew anticipated my reluctance had dwindled away and I began to think it
46. Sadly, with each passing year after the end of the war, it became more and more difficult to find men willing to fight in the Order and within two generations the numbers had dwindled to near nil
47. A week had passed and my hopes of escape- or denying my overpowering attraction to Drake- quickly dwindled
48. As the fire in the hearth dwindled, he looked out at the dark glass window, where the fields lay around his home
49. As the hours passed the number of patrons dwindled
50. which has dwindled down to once because I
1. Their interest slowly dwindles, but the engagements continue so that they can pass time, meet people and feel wanted
2. and that stage needs to be taken down and on the wagon for storage," called Grandpa There was a jerk at his arm and Mary Dwindles head appeared before him with such a sad expression
3. When this energy dwindles to a low point, one can easily switch from, from one dream to another which in fact is moving from one reality to another
4. The capital of the country, instead of increasing, gradually dwindles away, and the quantity of productive labour maintained in it grows every day less and less
5. That browns and dwindles as the wave goes home;
6. out, the interest just dwindles away
7. As for achieving goals, that possibility dwindles to nearly
8. and fear dwindles, because I am never alone,” Garcia said
9. He goes to bed to sleep but his slumber dwindles away till the crowing of the cocks,
10. when your money dwindles? Where is the world of matter and
11. There is no end to hate; it's not a supply that dwindles with the hating; hating is addictive and self-righteous vengeance is the necessity that sustains it
12. On the single occasion when a young Drong had expressed dissatisfaction and had spoken of support to curb excesses, force had been brought into play and the hoped-for united reaction had rapidly dwindles
13. But hey, presto, the mirror is breathed on and the young knighterrant recedes, shrivels, dwindles to a tiny speck within the mist
14. The voice died away and ceased as an insect's tiny trumpet dwindles swiftly into silence; and the Water Rat, paralysed and staring, saw at last but a distant speck on the white surface of the road
15. I’m trying to figure out what I want them to say here, where the tide of type has washed farthest up the walls, before the white starts to eat away at it again and the whole fucking thing dwindles away to a nothing that’s either meaningless or not
1. His compositions took him the rest of the dwindling afternoon and up until dinner to get onto paper and address
2. It was the second Empire that had really perfected genetics and with energy and metal supplies dwindling, they turned to them for military advantage
3. With each dwindling load, more and more of the ancient building became exposed; she’d never really taken a good look at the size of the place
4. And somehow, despite their dwindling supplies and resources, Rapheal had been able to keep them moving through space
5. The marine lit another of his dwindling supply of cigarettes
6. now dwindling line of pilgrims as they fled towards the
7. Judging by the dwindling number of servants, he would soon have both things
8. The order that vampires were to feed on cows, bulls, sheep, goats, or even rats if they had to was given by Tairark, over twelve hundred years ago, when the amount of humans alive in the Southlands was dwindling
9. The XK3 automatically powered down to preserve its dwindling reserve
10. Planet Earth, pre-invasion, was seen as overcrowded with dwindling resources – a view held by many for centuries
11. It was 1978 and Gordon Edward was just another fisherman struggling for existence, pursuing the forever dwindling schools off Limon’s shore
12. I nod and grab a red shirt from the dwindling pile of clothes
13. We had immediately gone to the ticket office and having discovered that we had just missed the 615pm crossing, booked tickets on the 8 o’clock crossing, using our rapidly dwindling supply of cash
14. Once I put some of my dwindling supply of chili into the soup, it was rather good
15. Not to mention the dwindling collection plates
16. In vain had she travelled to nearby towns, spending from a rapidly dwindling reserve
17. response to the dwindling supply of bear parts obtained from bears hunted in the wild
18. With the already meager supply rapidly dwindling, he advised, “Try to stretch it out so that everyone gets something, including us,” he offered with a wry smile as he found appreciation in this peculiar conundrum
19. With the already meager supply rapidly dwindling, he advised, “Try to stretch it out so that
20. If the pagan says that the universe had a beginning, we ask: What were the pagan gods doing before that time? If the pagan insists that the universe had no beginning, we ask: When was the first pagan god born? Who were its parents? How did pagan gods gain control of a universe that existed before them? Why do pagan gods care about human sacrifices if they already possess and control everything? Why do pagan gods allow Christian men to rule the warm European lands rich in food and wine, while leaving the pagans only the frozen lands of the north? Why is the Christian world dominant, while those clinging to primitive beliefs are a dwindling minority?
21. But a new plan for her freedom was slowly formulating in her mind, she did not like it one bit, but her options were dwindling fast
22. But as I was getting closer to the table and watched Americus to get up to meet me, my determination was dwindling at a rate inversely proportional to the distance, until it became tiny, tiny and infinitesimal
23. Amanda’s hatred of men fed on a dwindling supply of victims whose deaths could never be traced to her, so Irma’s arrival was particularly welcome because the blokes she wanted eradicated were even less likely than usual to arouse dangerous suspicions
24. The boat ascended slowly, dwindling in circles
25. which are also in dwindling supply
26. The magician banished his broken-spirited tower-builders back below the earth to replenish the dwindling number of tunnel-minnows
27. After getting showered and dressed, snorting a couple of lines of his fast dwindling coke supply and finding a cab, he arrived at the club around twenty minutes to midnight
28. As I sat there watching, I was seized by a feeling that my very life was slowly dwindling into nothingness
29. Conan likened it in his mind to a great torrent, dwindling gradually as it rushed southward, to run dry at last in the sands of the naked desert
30. They could no longer see the flying figure, but they still heard his frightful screams, dwindling in the distance, and echoing as from vaulted roofs
31. He lay there watching the hurtling glow dwindling and dwindling until it vanished into a dark shining surface that seemed to surge upward to meet it
32. vampires are left to protect their dwindling food stock before all the fresh, uninfected blood runs out! Rufus the Cat Films answers the
33. Fugitive and pursuers vanished down the black tunnel, and the screams of the human came back dwindling and confused by the distance
34. He lifted his hands to the skies and sounded a long weird call that seemed to shudder endlessly out into space, dwindling and fading, yet never dying out, only receding farther and farther into some unreckoned cosmos
35. Two of Jean’s current groups had to share a single in-class set of books, and that set was dwindling, no matter how hard she tried to keep track of every book
36. With the passing of time, the dwindling resources of Christian "equal-sharing" came to an end -- but the world did not
37. Toward the end my funds were dwindling with my court case chewing another 40,000+ dollars and of that I even had to borrow a bit
38. The sharks continued to attack in spite of their rapidly dwindling numbers
39. To conserve his dwindling supply of florins the prince
40. This resulted in a dwindling of
41. As a direct result of dwindling wildlife, the eastern
42. The future on the station itself looked no less bleak, with reserves of food, water and air dwindling steadily and with no supply rocket ship to be hoped for from the surface, ever
43. With their numbers dwindling steadily, some of the Taliban panicked and got up to sprint towards the cover of the nearest houses, only to be shot down by the machinegun fire
44. Most of the dwindling numbers of people in the area were
45. However, those moments were dwindling
46. reserves were rapidly dwindling
47. ‘’Our carrier squadrons are now down to 65% of their original strength and our stocks of bombs on our carriers are dwindling rapidly
48. was slowly dwindling, especially since Charles’s vision was far from perfect, but he attempted to remain optimistic, for at least he had a witness who could place what they could assume was the murderer in the vicinity of the crime scene at approximately the right time
49. With the pincers soon only 200 meters distant from each other and with their numbers dwindling steadily under the deluge of bullets, the Japanese finally decided to launch an ultimate suicide charge on the pincer commanded by Ingrid, rising from the tall grass and yelling savagely while rushing forward with their bayonets fixed on their long ARISAKA rifles
50. I can't imagine how he found us, but we need to get away immediately!' Grobut growled, still searching frantically in the rapidly dwindling hope of finding a hidden spare key for the ignition