...flying, its roar lessening... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...This act continued to be extended,although with lessening penalties, until 1803...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...This peculiar state is probably produced in all animals killed by the carnivora; and if so, is a merciful provision by our benevolent Creator for lessening the pain of death...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...—Theseoccasionally occur, and when over the cavities of the nose produce depression,disfigurement, and impeded respiration, owing to the lessening of the caliberof the nasal passages...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...'Nasty jealous old beggar!' said Sponge, eyeing his lessening lordshipdisappearing over the hill too...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
... the bears were lessening the number of their assailants!...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...In 1897 Colonel Arisaka invented several improvements in this same rifle, increasing the velocity and accuracy, and lessening the weight...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
..." "Impersonality, by lessening the interest in one's self, induces one to take interest in others...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...But if the adjective in the superlative expresses a lessening of the quality then -aka(ne) is suffixed...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
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