Ebbed

Once again the tide of guests ebbed from the Big House, and more than one lunch and dinner found only the two men and Paula at the table. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I lay still with eyes closed until the pain ebbed away a bit and my memory of the night before came back. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But as I looked the waves began to ebb – and they ebbed as swiftly as, four years ago, they rolled in – ebbed out and out, to the gulf; and the Glen lay before me, beautiful and green, with a rainbow spanning Rainbow Valley – a rainbow of such splendid colour that it dazzled me – and I woke. ❋ Lucy Maud (1921)

That has kind of ebbed and flowed over the trial, how coordinated the defenses are. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Angella Henry looked out the window as the autumn sun ebbed into an early twilight and she thought aloud about what might have been. ❋ Phillip Martin (2011)

Oppression sat heavily upon them; the lightness of their natures had ebbed out of them; they were slack and absent-minded in their service, and they whispered gloomily to one another in the far end of the car next to the kitchen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Occupy Wall Street movement has ebbed and flowed since its inception. ❋ Michael J. Hunt (2011)

He ebbed away like a shadow through the open French windows. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its corrosive power has ebbed and flowed ever since. ❋ Rev. Jim Ball (2011)

Animosities toward Arab Christians have ebbed and flowed over time, but a chronic anti-Western subtext has pervaded the region's sectarian discourse. ❋ Christian C. Sahner (2011)

The combat ebbed away from Leo, and Dar Hyal and Hancock beset Dick. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So long as he walked four miles an hour, he pumped that blood, willy-nilly, to the surface; but now it ebbed away and sank down into the recesses of his body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Illness came upon him down in San Francisco, and his splendid life ebbed slowly out as he sat in his big easy-chair, in the Commercial Hotel, the "Yukoner's home." ❋ Unknown (2010)