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1. was no abrupt end; instead, there was a slow tapering off in the amount and size until it
2. I lost count as the rains continued for about fifty days, building to a peak before slowly tapering off
3. They seemed as though they were once beautiful hands with long, tapering fingers, but rheumatism had knotted the joints and warped the fingers
4. Amalrus had sent an emissary imploring aid against Strabonus, who, he said, was ravaging his western domain, which lay like a tapering wedge between the border of Aquilonia and the vast southern kingdom of Koth
5. It was no slender stiletto, selected because of a jeweled hilt or gold guard, fitted only for dainty murder in milady's boudoir; it was a forthright poniard, a warrior's weapon, broad-bladed, fifteen inches in length, tapering to a diamond-sharp point
6. This group had made an art of the tapering process
7. Its key geological features were its tapering mountains that reached an altitude of twelve thousand meters, and being ice cold at the tops
8. The blade was almost as long as Joey’s forearm, tapering to a point, and the edge was bright silver compared to the rest of the dull colored blade
9. The train station was situated on the outskirts of the city, just a few hundred yards away from the barren, tapering and cylindrical buildings, most of which had their tops and sides blasted off
10. Some motorists, who had the money, could afford ethanol fuel being grown from huge farms of algae from one of the many Green-Puff Houses throughout the city; buildings noted for their circular tapering stones roves and chimneys puffing out greenish-tinge smoke
11. From the 90-95% there should be a tapering off
12. It was eight inches longer and narrower than the short sword and was only one and a half inches wide at the hilt tapering to a point
13. No gradual abatement, no tapering off
14. There was a small thin tapering cone that came out a
15. tapering the conversation and getting precise answers that will lead you to close
16. His fingers, long, brown and tapering, brushed hers and
17. swallow-tailed coat: a man’s fitted coat, cut away over the hips and descending in a pair of tapering skirts behind
18. · Severe persistent: Requires high-dose inhaled steroids, long-acting β2 agonists and tapering of oral steroids
19. Electrical rays rebounded from the ground and twisted all around them before tapering off
20. Her curly hair, her back, her behind, those lovely long legs with the tapering calves and dainty ankles gave me some strange emotions
21. Those luscious breasts and perfect legs, the tapering calves and thin ankles
22. They have a grown son in Canada and what will he say? So it is tapering off, our relationship
23. The walls at the base are fifteen feet thick, tapering to a thickness of eighteen inches at the top
24. So it isn't quite built on the ten–to– one ratio of your high–speed steamers; but its lines are sufficiently long, and their tapering gradual enough, so that the displaced water easily slips past and poses no obstacle to the ship's movements
25. Her hands were of finely veined alabaster with tapering fingers and as white as lemonjuice and queen of ointments could make them though it was not true that she used to wear kid gloves in bed or take a milk footbath either
26. They cussed Jim considerble, though, and give him a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into the bottom log, and chained his hands, too, and both legs, and said he warn't to have nothing but bread and water to eat after this till his owner come, or he was sold at auction because he didn't come in a certain length of time, and filled up our hole, and said a couple of farmers with guns must stand watch around about the cabin every night, and a bulldog tied to the door in the daytime; and about this time they was through with the job and was tapering off with a kind of generl good-bye cussing, and then the old doctor comes and takes a look, and says:
27. Maria noticed automatically that he was exceptionally fit, with well-defined shoulders tapering down to narrow hips
28. The idea was to load a paper cartridge through the well at an angle, using the tapering chamber to guide it, then push it fully home with a thrust of the thumb
29. His severe black suit, with fine ruffled shirt and trousers smartly near him, bulky in the shoulders but tapering to a small waist and absurdly small feet in strapped beneath high insteps, was oddly at variance with his physique and face, for he was foppishly groomed, the clothes of a dandy on a body that was powerful and latently and closely clipped, almost foreign looking compared with the dashing, swooping dangerous in its lazy grace
30. The snow was tapering off beyond the breath-fogged glass
31. US tapering has started and against many pundits’ bearish predictions the market rallied
32. The ceiling was cathedral-style, but low, only eight feet high under the peak, tapering to about three feet high at the side walls
33. I remember she had the most delicate hands with tapering fingers, her nails painted red
34. Meat eaters, such as wild cats and foxes, produce long tapering ones
35. 1 Weeverfishes (Trachinidae) tapering, dull-coloured, about 30cm (1ft) long, lie buried in sand off the coasts of Europe south to West Africa and the Mediterranean
36. Under that was the straight, slightly tapering column with its red to purple to blue
37. The body of the one-man air craft is about sixteen feet long, two feet wide and three inches thick, tapering to a point at each end
38. Bees visit these flowers, like those of the Coryanthes, in order to gnaw the labellum; in doing this they inevitably touch a long, tapering, sensitive projection, or, as I have called it, the antenna
39. It looks more like the tapering tail of an anaconda, than the broad palms of the true whale's majestic flukes
40. Slowly wading through the meadows of brit, the Pequod still held on her way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity her three tall tapering masts mildly waved to that languid breeze, as three mild palms on a plain
41. Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat
42. A quoin is a solid which differs from a wedge in having its sharp end formed by the steep inclination of one side, instead of the mutual tapering of both sides
43. So that when at last the jerking harpoon drew out, and the towing whale sideways vanished; then, with the tapering force of his parting momentum, we glided between two whales into the innermost heart of the shoal, as if from some mountain torrent we had slid into a serene valley lake
44. First comes white-horse, so called, which is obtained from the tapering part of the fish, and also from the thicker portions of his flukes
45. Glancing upwards, he cried: "See! see!" and once more the high tapering flames were beheld with what seemed redoubled supernaturalness in their pallor
46. The tails tapering down that way, serve to carry off the water, d'ye see
47. Tail short, tapering gradually, about four inches long, cylindrical, brown, without spots, with 45 plates underneath, and having at the end a small, obtuse, horn claw, of an oblong, compressed, obtuse shape, and carinated underneath
