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Definition of Subsided
1. subside [v] - See also: subside
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsided
Literary usage of Subsided
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen, Reginald Brimley Johnson (1892)
"Hour after hour passed away, and the wearied Catherine had heard three proclaimed
by all the clocks in the house, before the tempest subsided, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"towns ; the cattle was driven away ; the grass and ripe corn were consumed with
fire ; and, as soon as the flames had subsided which interrupted the march ..."
3. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"agitation of the storm have not wholly subsided; the legions that encamped in
them are drawing off, but not departed; my sleep is still tumultuous; and, ..."
4. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... and when the Massachusetts Legislature again convened in autumn, о prospect
of speedy adjustment had apparently entirely subsided. ..."
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