...The night was deeply overcast, heavy clouds riding low above the jungleand the water—only to the west, where the broad ocean spread beyondthe river's mouth, was there a suggestion of lessening gloom... 
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...Doubtless, too, he realized as well as she the futility of hisweapon, and that he had only called attention to it in the hope ofreassuring her and lessening her anxiety...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...He naturally tries, then, to continue production by lessening expenses...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...Spongeskilfully parried—advising his daughters to be cautious, lessening thenumber of lights, and lowering the scale of his entertainments generally,Mr...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...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」
...The other parts of the shadow willreceive a certain amount of reflected light, lessening in amount oneither side of these points...
Harold Speed 「The Practice and Science Of Drawing」
...The distance is at present a littlemore than a degree, and it is gradually lessening, until, in the year 2095, the distance will be under half a degree...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...Here and there branches were broken, and it seemed to the poor wretch, fainting under the weight of his lessening burden, that his were not the first footsteps which had trodden there...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
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