1 I remarked this in Peggotty, too, when she came down; and I have seen it since; and I think, in the expectation of that dread surprise, all other changes and surprises dwindle into nothing.
2 Then it was that I began, if I may so Shakespearianly express myself, to dwindle, peak, and pine.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION 3 And now for an instant the men stood, their rifles slack in their hands, and watched the regiment dwindle.
4 Principles dwindle and pale in your constitutional cellar.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 5 At times the school would dwindle away, and I would start out.
6 In its light everything else dwindled and fell away from her.
7 Carol's hero-worship dwindled to polite nodding, and the nodding dwindled to a desire to escape, and she went home with a headache.
8 His confident voice dwindled to a bewildered murmur, ceaseless and racking.
9 The firing dwindled from an uproar to a last vindictive popping.
10 The space between dwindled to an insignificant distance.
11 One by one the numbers dwindled down, and still there came no sign of him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 12 And so the story dwindled away.
13 Below these in force, above them in pitch, a dwindled voice strove hard at a husky tune, which was the peculiar local sound alluded to.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 14 No one came to talk to her, and one by one the group dwindled away till she was left alone.
15 As the six evenings had dwindled away, to five, to four, to three, to two, I had become more and more appreciative of the society of Joe and Biddy.