God's bounty, that ebbs less and less As men do wane in thankfulness.
I begin to wane in sight; Shortly I shall bid good-night: Then no gazing more about, When the tapers once are out.
Hebrides, peats cut in the wane of the moon in the, ii.
From this observation men have inferred that all things simultaneously wax orwane in sympathy with it.
They say that the waxing moon draws the sap up through the trunk and branches, whereas the sap flows down and leaves the wood dry during the wane of the moon.
M51) The great festival of the dead in Cambodia takes place on the last day of the month Phatrabot (September-October), but ever since the moon began to wane everybody has been busy preparing for it.
Of the Scottish Highlanders we are told that "the moon in her increase, full growth, and in her wane are with them the emblems of a rising, flourishing, and declining fortune.
So Thomas Tusser advised the peasant to sow peas and beans in the wane of the moon "that they with the planet may rest and arise.
Some French peasants also prefer to sow in the wane (F.
M115 Theory that all things wax or wane with the moon.
Two widows chiefly gain'd his heart; The one yet green, the other more mature, Who found for nature's wane in art a cure.
Whatever moulds of various brain E'er shaped the world to weal or woe, Whatever empires' wax and wane To him that hath not eyes in vain, Our village-microcosm can show.
The big teetotum twirls, And epochs wax and wane As chance subsides or swirls; But of the loss and gain The sum is always plain.
He display Hoard on hoard of pith and brain, Autumn brings a mist and rain That constrain Him and his to know decay, Where undimmed the lights that wane Would remain, If it could be always May.
Beliefs and hopes are factors in economic values, and values wax and wane with them.
The volume of business capital is a pecuniary concept, and may wax and wane with little variation in the physical stocks.
IV It is the natural release of vital forces, consequent upon the normal wane of mother-power at middle-age, that has been mainly responsible for the errors of the Woman's Movement.
The wane of nine out of ten honeymoons impresses the value of an inflexible decree that declines to reckon with disillusion, but sternly bids the disillusioned take up their burden and make the best of it.
And where love is not, to recruit and quicken passion and to take the place of novelty, the wane of honeymoons is sad indeed.
The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
The rise and wane of the heroic plays is sufficiently illustrated in the career of their chief exponent.
The wane of the heroic plays brought a return to the Elizabethans, and, notably in Lee, to some of the most characteristic features of the later revenge plays.
She had been regretting the wane of a pleasant evening, but she had thought there was a half-hour more.
With the wane of the afternoon went her hopes, her courage, and her strength.
The day "Must wane not on thy loveless spirit lorn, "So long.
Tis to know, till every cup is drained, And passion wane in pale satiety.
Buried alive from light and air This year is the hundredth year, 200 I feed my fire with a sleepless care, Watching my potion wane or wax: Elixir of Life is simmering there, And but one thing lacks.
Miss Cooper makes alive each season's charms, as they pass over the Glimmerglass and wane beyond Hannah's Hill.
Do zawe sea churre no o skay leith na thraa zor royve ann Na gin dug ayr mor er ir wane is gin dranik se a feyn fynn.
Its culture has been on the wane for many years and only an occasional nurseryman in that section handles the variety to-day.
Before the industry began to wane about York the Catawba and Isabella had taken the place of the first named sorts and these eventually succumbed for most part to grape diseases.
So, in the wane of the day, she passed through the forest and came out upon the great plain in front of Emain Macha, and went to seek the king to take counsel with him.
In the wane of the afternoon, Bras and Lu met at last.
Whene'er I sang, my song had one refrain With anxious care and artifice refined, Until my soul's accompaniment would wane And wax to one motiv: unending pain.
Even so I spake, and anon my lady mother answered me: "Yea verily, she abideth with steadfast spirit in thy halls; and wearily for her the nights wane always and the days in shedding of tears.
