He observed, also, that the road looked drier and less broken than usual; his satisfaction at which had the good effect of materially abating the rage into which he had been thrown by the uncivil bearing of the guide.
Frost has gently laid hands on her exuberant vegetation, tinging her rock-maple woods without abating the deep verdure of her herbage.
It was not long before our opponents gave indication of abating somewhat the quick stroke they had hitherto maintained, and by virtue of which they had already got nearly a boat's length ahead.
Desperate as our case was, he kept a steady hand on the helm, and strained his eyes into the mist ahead, never abating for a moment either his vigilance or his courage.
Lonsdales--abating considerably the glow of Wordsworth's recurring praise and homage.
Widely different from the conduct of the British was that of the Spaniards in a like case:--with high feeling did they, abating not a jot or a tittle, enforce the principle of justice.
The Caliph, having about him neither jewels nor money, had no means of propitiating his jailer or abating the rigour and severity of the treatment to which he was subjected.
Considerations like these, abating our pride and reducing our opinion of ourselves, naturally moderate our pretensions towards others.
As the exorbitant exercise of power cannot, under popular sway, be effectually restrained, the other great object of political arrangement, the means of abating an excessive desire of it, is in such a state still worse provided for.
Our business is, to leave to the schools the discussion of the controverted points, abating as much as we can the acrimony of disputants on all sides.
She welcomed gracefully whatever adjuncts were furnished by schools and books, but never dreamed of abating her maternal vigilance, or trusting to these as substitutes for home culture.
He was even willing to be bound over to appear in the circuit court to answer for the part he took in abating the Expositor press as a nuisance.
Elizabeth incessantly lectured Henry on the necessity of abating a preponderance so dangerous to all other States, and tried to convince him that it was specially incumbent on France to undertake the enterprise.
But the whole of Elizabeth’s long reign was spent in abating the power of Spain.
Without abatingany of his reserve from this encouragement, he proceeded precisely in the same tone as before, and with the same steady composure.
Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
I say, dreamed I heard, for the girl neither looked at me nor removed the apron from her face, nor by abating her sobs or any other sign betrayed that she spoke or that she was conscious of my neighbourhood.
Such an overture was far from abating my fears; nor had I expected this sudden plunge into a solitude, which seemed the more chilling, as we stood in London, and had a little while before passed from the hum of the Strand.
The bad weather abating in the afternoon, we went to the temple Nishi Otani.
The rain abating at noon, the grounds of the Crown Prince's palace were opened and the persons who were in Tokio availed themselves of the privilege of visiting them.
To these add, the bay-tree, for abating all such infections; of which see many famous instances in cap.
You may almost at any time remove young cherry-trees, abating the heads to a single shoot.
In this predicament, the closing of all the flaps of the windows is the only means of abating the mischief.
Such a plan, moreover, is very valuable for abating the nuisance caused by the disengagement of the muriatic acid gas; which is otherwise apt to sterilize the surrounding vegetation.
Never abating a jot of his ideal of a true and perfect life, or ceasing to uphold the good because he cannot live to the full height of his own argument, he is too frank to conceal the least or greatest of his own shortcomings.
This operation, too, like that for abating the feudal customs of succession in land, I have had the advantage of myself seeing and hearing my Liberal friends labour at.
But then abating this single Commendation, Valentine is altogether compounded of Vice.
The later abating Propriety of Language, talks more like a Water-man than a Deity.
