It has therefore been slowly subsiding and its streams, although continually carried below grade, have yet been able to aggrade the surface as rapidly as the region sank, and have maintained it, as at present, slightly above sea level.
California was then under water, and the site of the Sierra was a subsiding trough slowly filling with waste from the Great Basin land to the east.
Their present position above sea level proves that the land nowsubsiding emerged in the recent past.
There was no response--a shiver, subsiding at once: no more than that.
She felt the thrill of his tender voice; perceived the impression: the buzz, the subsiding confusion, the spell-bound stillness.
Hence we have reason to conclude, that, at the formation of those strata, the bituminous matter, highly subtilised, had been uniformly mixed with the earth subsiding in the water.
Thus, the rock appears as if it had been a mass of fluid salt, in which had been floating a quantity of marly substance, not uniformly mixed, but every where separating and subsiding from the pure saline substance.
It was no longer, as before, a dark, unseen river flowing through the gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradually subsiding after a storm.
And all the while a heart was panting sick Behind that shaggy bulwark of thy breast-- Passion it was that made those breath-bursts thick I took for mirth, subsiding into rest.
T is a yawn Of sheer fatigue subsiding to repose: The statue 's 'Somnolency' clear enough!
And so we profit by the catalogue, Somehow our smile subsiding more and more, Till we decline into .
Paullus Arvina had come in once to reassure them: and informed them that the vigilance of the Consul had been crowned with success, and that the danger of a conflict in the streets was subsidingevery moment.
With the subsiding of the excitement of return, the early associations which had temporarily confused and colored the feelings of Philip Ballister settled gradually away, leaving uppermost once more the fastidious refinement of the Parisian.
In a few minutes he regained the strength which had temporarily departed, and then noticed that the storm was subsiding as rapidly as it had arisen.
The prairie seemed agitated, trembling and quivering with a peculiar, wave-like motion, such as the ocean shows when it is subsiding after a severe storm.
Sea and dry land, upheaving of land over the waters, or subsiding of the ocean.
How long this particular revolt lasted it would be difficult to say, but no doubt it dragged on for many months, subsidinghere only to burst forth elsewhere with redoubled fury.
For ten years the insurrection flourished, subsiding in the winter to a mere nothing, for then the Spanish troops were able to take active measures to suppress it.
Slowly the hours of darkness passed, the silence broken only at intervals by the dull grinding of the subsiding debris and by a desultory, whispered conversation between the lads.
Both he and Rollo, temporarily dazed by the explosion, had thought only of getting clear of the subsiding building.
After subsiding and filtering, the solution is clear and quite colourless, and by addition of caustic soda the quinamine is precipitated.
One long streamer of light fell upon his yellow hair and kissed the eyelids of a veiled, subsiding mind.
The pan was subsiding from the incline of a sea to the level of the trough.
It appears from various signs and traditions, that the coast has been subsiding for the last four centuries from the firth called Igaliko, in lat.
Once released, the spirit of anarchy spreads and spreads, not subsiding until it has accomplished its full measure of evil.
The time of the subsiding of the tumult is by no means the least pitiable of the phases of human life.
The revels of merry England are fast subsiding into silence, and her many customs wearing gradually away.
This is, in general, a necessary consequence of the fact that a great thickness of sediments can only be formed on a subsiding sea-floor.
It would appear also, that the elevatory and subsiding movements follow nearly the same laws.
Hence in these cases it would appear, that volcanos burst forth into action and become extinguished on the same spots, accordingly as elevatory or subsiding movements prevail there.
Vast as that field was, it could not encompass the whole fleet, but half of the lip of the gigantic cone soon disappeared, its component vessels subsiding into a sluggishly flowing stream of allotropic iron.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subsiding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
