...They prefer it only as a cattle station; for, though the herds are frequently thinned by an epidemic disease (peripneumonia), they breed so fast that the losses are soon made good... 
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...“During the many years that Europe was devastated and the population thinned by war, we had no cholera, and but little of one or two other epidemics which have since been very fatal...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...There, see the old man, with locks thinned and gray...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...Dilution: much thinned out or diluted...
John. B. Smith 「Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology」
...The skin having been relaxed and thinned (see Chapter X...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
..., thinned with turps, is sometimes used forcolouring the noses of mammals...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...Every one took it good-naturedly, but hekept doling the doleful until little by little the circle thinned...
Elinore Pruitt Stewart 「Letters on an Elk Hunt」
...The congregation of Lune-street Chapel is moderately numerous; butit has been materially thinned at intervals by the establishment ofother Wesleyan chapels...
Atticus 「Our Churches and Chapels」
...But even as I watched, the crowd thinned and melted swiftly away, until the streets of the queer, circular city were utterly deserted...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931」
...The great havoc and destruction which the reduced ration had occasioned among the birds frequenting Mount Pitt had so thinned their numbers, that they were no longer to be depended upon as a resource...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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