"Wearing away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the embouchure of the Ohio to the mouth of the Mississippi itself, though at certain points the extent of the encroachment and the formation that neutralises it is much greater than at others. In some places the "wearing away" of the bank operates so rapidly that in a few days the whole site of a village, or even a plantation, may disappear. Not unfrequently, too, during the high spring-floods this eccentric stream takes a "near cut" across the ...
— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid
... 17.—Got back my P.O. bank book. Total now L6 3s. Discovered slight leakage at joint between the cylinder and combustion head of the gas engine, owing to wearing away of asbestos washer, so causing a very small but appreciable diminution of compression. Made a temporary ...
— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
... Kings and princes are getting scarce. They are the most class is wearing away, and it is right for them keep ...
— Three Wonder Plays • Lady I. A. Gregory
... of these distressful sensations the far-off crow of some vigilant chanticleer assured her that the short summer night was wearing away and relief was at hand. This comfortable conviction had so good an effect that she lapsed into what seemed a moment's oblivion, but was in fact an hour's restless sleep, for when her eyes unclosed again the first red streaks were visible ...
— Moods • Louisa May Alcott
... performances of Punch and Judy on fair days, or the minstrelsy of gentlemen with blackened faces, on banjos, the tambourine, and bones. But the joke is becoming stale. People are getting cloyed with these performances, and are looking for some healthier and more intellectual amusement. The ludicrous is wearing away, and disgust is taking the place of pleasurable sensations, arising from the novelty of this new phase of ...
— Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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