minished

Whether the tub leaked or the culture evaporated, I do not know, but the quantity R. mixed should have been enough for the 100 pounds, but it has vanished or rather "minished," to use a very pregnant negro word, and now I have to use these old ingredients.

A Woman Rice Planter 1914

Thenceforth dwelt Birdalone with her mother and her maidens and her men in that house, and it became famous in the Five Crafts because of her beauty and her wisdom, which minished not, but waxed day by day; but therewithal as the time wore, waxed her longing and sadness.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Now they went thus, and Birdalone not without pleasure, since her fear of the knight was minished, some three hours up the dale, and still were the Greywethers everywhere about them, so that there were well-nigh as many hours as miles in their wending.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

I mourn for thee, Prometheus, minished and brought low,

Prometheus Bound 2002

I mourn for thee, Prometheus, minished and brought low,

Prometheus Bound 2002

Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Psalms 107. 1999

"The rainbow is here," the gunslinger said softly, stretching his di-minished hand out to the gate.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

When the kindly hand was outstretched here to help, when the loving word, carrying the very life of love, went across the ocean to those who were indeed "minished and brought low," was not the channel of Christian sympathy deepened, was not its flow made fuller and more strong by the conditions of which I have just spoken?

Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. Diocese Of Connecticut