"Waning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... impression of the night has to be retained from one visit to Venice, those are fortunate who chance upon a full moon of fair weather. Yet I know not whether some quieter and soberer effects are not more thrilling. To-night, for example, the waning moon will rise late through veils of scirocco. Over the bridges of San Cristoforo and San Gregorio, through the deserted Calle di Mezzo, my friend and I walk in darkness, pass the marble basements of the Salute, and push our way along ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... long time They lingered. And the child slow faded, till One day Eve frighted cried, "See, Adam, still She lies! Ah, little one, unseal those eyes! Rouse but awhile, ere waning daylight flies!" For she discerned not yet its doom, nor knew The hour was near. But Adam, parting, drew Beneath the thorn, lest he might see the child. And all the lone hours through Eve, babbling, smiled Adown. And blew her warm breath ...
— Lilith - The Legend of the First Woman • Ada Langworthy Collier
... and before Jeremy could come back to earth the gloom of the forest shut in above their heads once more. They put the horses to a canter as soon as the ridge was cleared, for there were still ten miles to go and the light was waning. Jeremy was very much at home in the woods, but the chill, sombre depths that appeared and reappeared on either hand seemed to warn him to be prepared. He reached to the saddlebow, undid the flap of the pistol holster, and made ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader
... you," said Minard, "that at the present time his influence is waning. In the first place, he won't find every day for his dear, good friend, as he calls him, a fine property worth a million to be bought ...
— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac
... 'Romantics,' the Liberals are 'Classics.' The divergence of taste in matters literary and divergence of political opinion coincide; and the result is a war with weapons of every sort, double-edged witticisms, subtle calumnies and nicknames a outrance, between the rising and the waning glory, and ink is shed in torrents. The odd part of it is that the Royalist-Romantics are all for liberty in literature, and for repealing laws and conventions; while the Liberal-Classics are for maintaining the unities, the Alexandrine, and the classical theme. So opinions ...
— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac
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