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wearing away
1. and dig his boot into the ground, wearing away the spot where the rubber should
2. The deterioration of his own wellbeing was the only process of change to be recognised here, slowly wearing away at his state of mind
3. It is the stressors wearing away at the threshold inhibitors which generates overly stressed, burdened, operating beyond capacity systems, thus compromising their integrity and putting them in jeopardy of catastrophic cascade failure of their immune system
4. So those foes formed an armistice and vacated the site of that conflagrant Lingam since it continued wearing away at Antarloka in spite of their optimistic hopes
5. The afternoon was wearing away when they scrambled and stumbled into a fold that was wider and deeper than any they had yet met
6. The morning is wearing away
7. Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing away the sea-cliffs, in order to comprehend something about the duration of past time, the monuments of which we see all around us
8. The tides in most cases reach the cliffs only for a short time twice a day, and the waves eat into them only when they are charged with sand or pebbles; for there is good evidence that pure water effects nothing in wearing away rock
9. —The wearing away of the surface of the land by water
10. He said that he was wearing away his time fruitlessly where he was, that letters from the friends he had formed in London desired his return to complete the negotiation they had entered into for his Indian enterprise
11. Lake Ontario, from some cause, (possibly an earthquake, or the wearing away of its outlet, or both,) is considerably lower than it was formerly: in that way the land along its banks, once covered by its waters, is drained, presenting appearances exactly similar to those seen in many of our prairies