Their interest in politics was a secondary one, and such political sympathies as they had, were generally with the Moderate politicians, just rising to a prominence, which was soon to eclipse Mazzini's waning light.
For years past she had to bemoan the waning of his affection and his many conjugal sins.
Yet so bold a front did they keep at the centre and right that the waning light showed the combatants facing each other there on even terms.
The hut circles on the rise looked more desolate than ever in the waning afternoon light.
It was a grey northern night, with a bitter wind driving the sea mist in billows over the marshes, and a waning half moon shining fitfully through the dingy clouds which scudded across a lead-coloured sky.
The goose-flesh rises and the clammy cold sweat takes all the comfort out of waning courage.
The men posted on the opposite flank to where I was opened a terrific fire that would have made poor Kagig bite his lips in fear for the waning ammunition.
Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.
Amid a solitude like that of a catacomb the hours ran their course; the day grew old, and eventide replaced the waning flush in the west.
They had left the garden behind in its blaze of flowers, and strayed off into the subdued twilight of the copse, where everything was in a half tone of greenness and shadow and waning light.
They were approaching the shore, and Mrs. Dennistoun's white cap was visible in the waning light, looking out for them from the door.
He felt wearied, but kept off sleep, and his eyes open, while his gaze dwelt on the waning and half-hidden stars.
The waning of the moon was supposed to be due to her sorrow at the loss of her children, the stars, which were devoured by the sun.
The great ceremonies are conducted in the period of the waxing of the moon, and its waning is an occasion of mourning.
Into this wood, in the waning afternoon, rode, unsuspectingly, the two justices, engaged in a warm discussion over some quibble of the law.
The bright spring afternoon was already waning when, some hours after the events related above, the two maidens walked out upon the south wall of the castle.
Mr. Hales, being proud of his voice, put this echo through all its peals, or chime of waning resonance.
The glow of the west glanced back from the trees, and twinkled in the hedge-rows, and clustered in the Traveller’s Joy, and here and there lay calmly waning on patches of mould that suited it.
Gregory jumped from his horse, and caught her; and even in thewaning light was frightened as she looked at him.
Theirs was no passing in gradual waning of strength and quiet dissolution; not even in senility.
It springs not from an intensification of passion, but, on the contrary, from a waning of that power to love which holds a woman true to one mate.
The attitude of Mr. Wilson is specially studied; his apotheosis and the waning of his star and his apparent lapse from "Wilsonianism" is explained.
Moreover, if we are to make love the sole bond--clearly the waning of love must release from the bondage.
Every concrete function normally wanes with thewaning of Day.
It would, doubtless, not be on Himself the Great Redeemer would, in these waning hours of earthly communion, chiefly dwell.
Her soul is still fair with her waning youth, and passion daily gathers strength from the dismaying prospect of the coming days.
There was something sadder than the sense of waning life in that expressive face, some trouble that went deeper than the weariness of experience.
Through the waning afternoon, Jack stowed himself on deck and held long converse with Joe Hawkridge when they met between the keel-chocks of the jolly-boat.
Now and then Jack paused to tread water while his shipmate clung to his shoulder and husbanded his waning strength, with that indomitable grin on his freckled phiz.
The leaves fallen from the hickories, under the touch of waning summer, took on now, by the magic of this sun, golden tones of red and yellow.
There had been a gentle rain, and now under the soft evening sun the earth seemed to recover something of the virility of springtime, as though the impulse of life waningin the autumn were about to reconquer its dominion.
Even now, close as we were, I could not distinguish his face very clearly, for the waning light was still further decreased by clouds.
I was able to get a better view of our companion than hitherto, while the shade of the trees had lessened the already waning light.
Never lagged the time so wearily, and never was house more joyous than that, as the waning day brought the loved ones beneath its roof.
