1 The next morning produced no abatement in these happy symptoms.
2 Still, there was no abatement in the storm, but it blew harder.
3 The morrow produced no abatement of Mrs. Bennet's ill-humour or ill health.
4 But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he assigns it.
5 When a thing suited him he paid the price demanded, without thinking to ask for any abatement.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT 6 The smoke-serpents were indifferent who was lost or found, who turned out bad or good; the melancholy mad elephants, like the Hard Fact men, abated nothing of their set routine, whatever happened.
7 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.
8 The thunder had ceased outside, but the rain which had abated, suddenly came striking down, with a last blench of lightning and mutter of departing storm.
9 He walked up one street, and down another, until exercise had abated the first passion of his grief; and then the revulsion of feeling made him thirsty.
10 But the fagged whale abated his speed, and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ... 11 The instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began to make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their captors.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 12 The latter was not yet ended, when the sensation among the men had entirely abated.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 13 By degrees the wind abated, vast gray clouds rolled towards the west, and the blue firmament appeared studded with bright stars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 14 The next morning she found her grandmother in bed; the fever had not abated, on the contrary her eyes glistened and she appeared to be suffering from violent nervous irritability.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran. 15 When the snow storm abated a moment we looked again.