The plot never flags and has no diminuendo after the death of Ajax. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
The blast echoing off the embankment like timpani fading diminuendo. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloomsday Dead] Reference
Cicada droned in long, loud crescendo and diminuendo under the hot sun of mid forenoon. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
The last note died away in an impressive diminuendo, and the young man turned toward her. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
The original goetic power lasted well into the Iron Age, early medieval times, diminuendo. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
I can play the lute and know its gamut and notes and notation and the crescendo and diminuendo. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The softening diminuendo of his voice, the almost seducing tone made her all the more wary of him. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Possessed]
Then he listened to the diminuendo of the hoofs as they trotted away down the drive in the heavy rain. From Wordnik.com. [On The Beach]
Although I have noticed a distinct diminuendo in posting ever since this Meade business was announced. From Wordnik.com. [Picnic with dog and iPhone.] Reference
I walked away while playing it -- the only way you can do a diminuendo on the pipes: no volume control. From Wordnik.com. [Obituaries] Reference
Triumphantly, with an exclamation mark, he points out a diminuendo sign and a decrescendo in the passage. From Wordnik.com. [Early Music: An Exchange] Reference
The note of the machine sank progressively in a diminuendo; he stood watching it till finally it came to rest. From Wordnik.com. [On The Beach]
On the trail of the last figure he crept, and the chug of the flying speeders roared back to him in diminuendo. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
The roar dropped off abruptly into diminuendo, punctuated by the rattle of a loose truck at the rear of the caboose. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
The diminuendo of his footsteps was agreeable to Doggie's ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
They danced till the last bar died away in a tender diminuendo. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume I.] Reference
"All right!" came in a diminuendo from the clergyman's receding form. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play] Reference
The saw was ripping through a series of knots in alternate crescendo and diminuendo. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, You Tex!] Reference
Her horse had disappeared; the rumble of his hoofs, diminuendo, told the way he had gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Bell] Reference
Was the fellow in process of making a long diminuendo -- a possible matter of weeks or of months?. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
Time and again he makes a point by a diminuendo or a piano where Del Monaco and Corelli hector along. From Wordnik.com. [Opera Today] Reference
Now it was the later dusk of night, and the cocks crowed loudly in a clear diminuendo, dying far away. From Wordnik.com. [Tiverton Tales] Reference
He dipped his sculls, the ripples started out and swam in grave diminuendo till they touched the banks. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Pharisees] Reference
Gradually the sound decreased in volume, decreased in a long diminuendo, and at last faded away into silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Carnation] Reference
Out upon the dock an insistent siren blared a crescendo and diminuendo blast of sound, and two minutes remained. From Wordnik.com. [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference
The main and more distant group is well centralized and there is a clever diminuendo expressed in its characters. From Wordnik.com. [Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures] Reference
The final note of "Memories" died away in a diminuendo wail, and the musician almost collapsed into Seaton's arms. From Wordnik.com. [Skylark Three] Reference
In contrast, Baroque music's dynamics were mostly uniform, either piano or forte, but without effects such as crescendo or diminuendo. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
For an hour the racket lasted, and then fell in gradual diminuendo; and Mac thought of sleep notwithstanding vermin, dust and shrapnel. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of a Trooper] Reference
Calleja said he adopted what he could from the style of these singers, including "the ability to diminuendo any high note to a whisper.". From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
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