After the first few difficult lessons, given amidst peril and on the edge of a moral volcano that rumbled under my feet and sent sparks and hot fumes into my eyes, the eruptive spirit seemed to subside, as far as I was concerned.
Pencroft felt the swelling of his heart gradually subside.
"Well," replied Cyrus Harding, "I will blow up the granite, and the water escaping, will subside, so as to lay bare this opening—" "And make a waterfall, by falling on to the beach," added the reporter.
The wind had now fallen almost to a calm, and the noise of the sea began also to subside.
" And there was that slight pressure of the hands, and momentary meeting of the eyes, which will often leave a little lady with a slight flush and smile on her face that do not subside immediately when the door is closed, and with an inclination to walk up and down the room rather than to seat herself quietly at her embroidery, or other rational and improving occupation.
As the tears subside a little, and with her head leaning backward at the angle that will not injure her bonnet, she endures that terrible moment when grief, which has made all things else a weariness, has itself become weary; she looks down pensively at her bracelets, and adjusts their clasps with that pretty studied fortuity which would be gratifying to her mind if it were once more in a calm and healthy state.
" Maggie's sobs began to subside, and she put out her mouth for the cake and bit a piece; and then Tom bit a piece, just for company, and they ate together and rubbed each other's cheeks and brows and noses together, while they ate, with a humiliating resemblance to two friendly ponies.
As Josie was not "speaking" to Jane just then she had to subside into comparative harmlessness.
'Establish a base level of understanding, and the fights subside.
However these should subside after stopping smoking, as it's due to nicotine being very addictive and the body getting rid of it and the toxins that have built up from smoking.
Scientists aren't sure why, but they've found that getting more rest will make the symptoms subside.
Damon said the controversy would subside "once people see that it's a monster movie and it's a historical fantasy and I didn't take a role away from a Chinese actor .
There are no words to tell you , Just what I feel inside The shock, the hurt, the anger 、 Might gradually subside .
Often, as I still lay at the bottom and kept no more than an eye above the gunwale, I would see a big blue summit heaving close above me; yet the coracle would but bounce a little, dance as if on springs, and subside on the other side into the trough as lightly as a bird.
