"Thinning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were thinning down. A light snow was falling. The girl lifted her pet and kissed his ...
— The Foolish Virgin • Thomas Dixon
... include walruses and whales; fragile ecosystem slow to change and slow to recover from disruptions or damage; thinning polar icepack ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... that rose up richly from the Baked Meats Came thinning amid the boughs, And much that greedy Thief who snuffed the night air- ...
— Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes • Walter de la Mare
... The houses were thinning out rapidly; one side of the road was already only a succession of fields, and along a tiny worn path through one of these Caroline was hurrying nervously. She crossed the widening brook, almost a little river now, and kept along its farther bank for ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... rob him, and I often thought how cunningly, for he took no more than about half his gold, well knowing, I'm now sure, neither he nor my lord, your father, kept any count; and there was a bundle of notes in his pocket-book, which Mr. Archer was thinning swiftly, when all of a sudden, like a ghost rising, up sits Mr. Beauclerc, an unlucky rising it was for him, and taking him by the collar—he was a powerful strong man—"You've robbed me, Archer," says he. I was behind Mr. Archer, and I could not see what happened, but Mr. Beauclerc ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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