Her half-formed intention of rising anddeclining to take the ride with him fled, and she sat quietly looking at the pictures in the magazine with unseeing eyes.
Coupled with declining prices of assets, it leads to bank failures as a result of debts gone sour.
A proof of this fragmentation is the decliningpower of cartels - trade unions, on the one hand and business trusts, monopolies and cartels, on the other hand.
The Queen Regent, who, for some time, had been in declining health, harassed and beaten down by many cares, had left Leith and taken up her abode in Edinburgh Castle while the Reformers were absent from the capital.
The narrative goes on with an account of the declining health of the Queen.
Perhaps you may know at some future period, and in the mean time I request you to excuse my declining to put you in possession of my reasons.
Both the count and Baptistin had told the truth when they announced to Morcerf the proposed visit of the major, which had served Monte Cristo as a pretext for declining Albert's invitation.
Nevertheless, during the later years of his father's reign the weakness of the king and the declining health of the Black Prince threw the government very much into his hands.
So long had it been a monopoly of the Dutch and Belgians that it was declining into a mere mechanical trade.
With an insulting inflection Davis had said: "I have a declining respect for platforms.
It is unpleasant to him that his declining sight compels him now to less activity.
Declining further co-operation with the Austrians, and alleging the need of rest for his troops after their frightful exposure in the mountains, he withdrew into winter quarters in Bavaria at the end of the month.
The condition of Nelson's health furnished him an excuse for declining all civilities or calls, even from a reigning prince, on the ground that he was not well enough to go ashore and return them.
The prophecy of his boyhood is fulfilled, and the "dear native regions" whence his dawning genius rose have been gilded by the last ray of its declining fire.
There were reasons why it could not be so, said the namesake; but in the close confidence of friendship which the giving and the declining of the offer generated came this further blow.
Whereupon Polly, declining further converse on that delicate subject, and certainly not intending to grant the request made on the occasion, changed the subject.
And now the young man wrote a letter as though he were declining to deal about a horse!
DEAR SIR,-- After mature consideration I have resolved upon declining the offer made to me by my uncle respecting the Newton property.
In what terms could he speak to Neefit of the money due both for breeches and the loan, in the event of hisdeclining Polly?
Laura, declining offers of assistance from the crowd of pink-coated young gentlemen who were sucking cigars in the porch, was put into the saddle by her own groom.
Hercules Ingeniculus, one of the varieties of the declining Sun, 591-l.
But such motives of restraint were now despised; and the dissenters, exasperated by incessant persecution,[741] determined to avail themselves of the declining power of the church.
There are many instances of nations changing their religion, but there is no instance of a progressive country voluntarily adopting a retrogressive religion; neither is there any example of a declining country ameliorating its religion.
As to the inferior clergy, our information is less precise; but it is said that about six hundred of them imitated their superiors in declining to recognize for their king him whom the country had elected.
Fathom goes rapidly down the social hill, he makes excuses for his declining splendour.
A few palms, dotted about here and there, throw a faint pretence of a shadow, and not far from the cloudless horizon hangs the now declining sun.
It certainly looked very much as if the other editors knew their business in declining to have anything to do with my unlucky godson.
Walker, who had been playing tragic parts, and very recently Macbeth, was chosen for Macheath, on Quin declining the highwayman.
There was ill-management at one, and ill-health (the declining health of Betterton) to mar the other.
From this date until his death in 1664 he remained at Basel, declining two offers which were made to him from Groningen and Leiden, to accept the Hebrew chair in these two celebrated schools.
I rather imagine his feeling was that of a certain Guardsman of our acquaintance, who said, declining the ordeal of combat, that 'his first duty was to his partners, and this did not allow him to risk a black eye.
The filial affection of her favourite son soothed the declining years of his mother, and lightened the anxieties with which the critical and troubled state of the times alarmed her old age.
Hence it is, for example, that the paintings which belong to the age of declining art are much more pleasing to the unlearned eye, than those which preceded the period of its perfection.
Amid Whitefield's innumerable engagements and declining health, Bethesda and his beloved America could not be forgotten.
He promptly refused the offer; and upon his decliningit for himself, she offered it to him for the benefit of his orphan-house.
Sluggish economic performance over the past decade, attributable largely to declining annual rainfall, has reduced levels of per capita income and consumption.
In the 1980s the economy suffered from hyperinflation, declining per capita output, and mounting external debt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "declining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
