"Subsidence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... centre of the stream the work had been gradually slowing down to a standstill with the subsidence of the first rush of water after the sluice-gate was opened. Tom North, leaning gracefully against the shaft of a peavy, looked up eagerly ...
— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White
... rudder, where the hollow or chasm sloped to the sea, was a great split three or four feet wide; this had certainly happened in the night, and I must have slept as sound as the dead not to hear the noise of it. Such a rent as this sufficed to account for the subsidence of the after-part of the schooner and her further inclination to larboard. Indeed, the hollow was now coming to resemble the "ways" on which ships are launched; and you would have conceived by the appearance of it that if it should slope a little more yet, off would slide the schooner ...
— The Frozen Pirate • W. Clark Russell
... the present position we find that during the past year there has been some subsidence of the acute stage of the malady, or rather it has taken a different turn. The bulk of the reasonable inhabitants have become wearied of the senseless agitation which brings annoyance and suffering without doing them good. There ...
— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol
... Inundated lands at Passaic, N. J.; B, Undamaged bridge across Passaic River after partial subsidence of ...
— The Passaic Flood of 1903 • Marshall Ora Leighton
... and internally, altogether in a natural state, except what appeared to me to be owing to the subsidence of blood to depending portions of the intestines. The mucous membrane was carefully examined throughout its whole length; but not being at that time aware of the importance, attached, by some pathologists, to small rednesses in this organ, it is ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various
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