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wear away
1. 18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee:
2. The day began to wear away
3. Eventually time did wear away at his misery until he found that
4. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it
5. The first thing to wear away and settle at the bottom of any geological deposit or accumulation is the softest, weakest substances
6. A chisel-shaped point is the most convenient, as it does not wear away so quickly
7. The same day that Leandra made her appearance her father removed her from our sight and took her away to shut her up in a convent in a town near this, in the hope that time may wear away some of the disgrace she has incurred
8. "First, notwithstanding the proverb that constant dropping will wear away a stone, you may set your mind at rest that these people never will—never would, in hundred years—impair your ground with Miss Havisham, in any particular, great or small
9. Their heavy carts will wear away your roads and churn up your river fords
10. He hid them, and he tried hard to swear away the young man's life
11. Being, however, a sensible man, he bore it for a while patiently, may be hoping that the suspicion would wear away; but my lord, with all his retinue, coming from London to the castle for the summer, invited the officers one day to dine with him and the countess, when the fact was established by a very simple accident
12. should not be try'd beyond her Strength, and continual dropping will wear away a Stone—ay, more—a Diamond
13. She had never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to her
14. To wear away this long age of three hours
15. This pond never breaks up so soon as the others in this neighborhood, on account both of its greater depth and its having no stream passing through it to melt or wear away the ice
16. Conjurer returns your watch in safety, but it retains that delicate perfume which only the time it chronicles can wear away
