Cadent

You have begun now the Plotinian ascent from multiplicity to unity, and therefore begin to perceive in the Many the clear and actual presence of the One: the changeless and absolute Life, manifesting itself in all the myriad nascent, crescent, cadent lives. ❋ Evelyn Underhill (1908)

By this time the entire group were circling the house, and their wild shrill cadent song rose high and loud:'Ki--yi--yi--um--Ah! Ah! Ah! I--I--I!' ❋ Unknown (1918)

The third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses are cadent. ❋ 1864-1929 Sepharial (1896)

It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death: and another and yet more terrible comet, which will be found in the fiery triplicity of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, will be seen before the conflagration. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

The boys in the bays pierce the waves with the cadent zip-zip-zip of their impact wrenches pulling and replacing lug nuts around various vehicles from one wheel to another. ❋ Darnell Arnoult (2006)

Not the cadent rattle of the thin cylindrical drums the Trivigauntis used, but the steady _thumpa-thumpa-thump_ of Vironese war drums, drums that suggested the palaestra's big copper stew-pot whenever she saw them, war drums beating out the quickstep used to draw up troops in order of battle. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1996)

I saw no horses, no sign of life; heard no sound but the cadent wail of the ash-grey birds in their flights. ❋ Walter De La Mare (1914)

The twelve houses are divided into cardinal houses, also called anguli, succeeding houses (succedentes, anaphora) and declining or cadent houses (cadentes, cataphora). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

And because David had asked for it and they loved the boy, the old men in the orchestra played the waltz over and over again, and at the end the dancers clapped their hands for an encore, and when the chorus began they sang it dancing, and the boy found the voice which cheered the "Men of Harlech," the sweet, cadent voice of his race, and let out his heart in the words. ❋ William Allen White (1906)

There was in it a lyrical sweetness scarcely ever previously compassed by its author, a cadent undertoned symphony that first gave testimony that the poet held the power of conveying by words a sensible eflfect of great music, even as former works of his had given testimony to his power of conveying a sensible eflfect by great painting. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

Patriots in Tabriz were resisting a counterrevolution aimed at crushing Iran's new democracy and restoring the de cadent Qajar monarchy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Suketu Mehta's Bombay book Maximum City is one of the greatest city books ever written, in my opinion, while Alice Albinia's wonderful Empires of the Indus is a breathtaking debut by an author who writes enviably cadent and beautiful prose, but has nerves of steel and the pluck of a 21st century Freya Stark. ❋ William Dalrymple (2009)

While his densely literary and cadent prose style is beyond imitation, his books have become sacred texts for several generations of British writers of non-fiction, including Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, Philip Marsden, Nicholas Crane and Rory Stewart, all of whom have been inspired by the persona he created of the bookish wanderer: the footloose scholar in the wilds, scrambling through remote mountains, a knapsack full of books on his shoulder.