1 The diminished list of competitors for silvan fame still amounted to eight.
2 We shall then have your willing sanction, good Cedric," said Prince John, "to confer this fief upon a person whose dignity will not be diminished by holding land of the British crown.
3 The impatience of Cedric had been rather enhanced than diminished by his confinement.
4 All this passed overnight, for the journey was to begin very early in the morning; and when the small, diminished party met at breakfast, William and Fanny were talked of as already advanced one stage.
5 He had diminished the distance between himself and London by full four miles more, before he recollected how much he must undergo ere he could hope to reach his place of destination.
6 The evil of a marriage would be much diminished, if Elizabeth were also to marry.
7 The reddleman watched his form as it diminished to a speck on the road and became absorbed in the thickening films of night.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 8 It was not till his stock of fuel had greatly diminished that he went to the back door and sent in to beg that Mrs. Yeobright would open the window-shutters and see the sight outside.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 9 Susan uttered the lugubrious discourse three times slowly, and when it was completed the image had considerably diminished.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 10 Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well, and their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary.
11 I had first seen the place on a moist afternoon when distances are deceptively diminished.
12 Yet, though those glances and expressions were too subtle, too insufficiently open, the difficulty in no way diminished his high spirits.
13 In the end, these difficulties so chilled Tientietnikov's enthusiasm that he took to supervising the labours of the field with greatly diminished attention.
14 Their spirits once roused were, however, not diminished, but only changed character.
15 Having by a great effort got away to the left from that flood of men, Kutuzov, with his suite diminished by more than half, rode toward a sound of artillery fire near by.