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Definition of Dwindles
1. dwindle [v] - See also: dwindle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwindles
Literary usage of Dwindles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, / How commentators each dark pas-
age shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun ! ..."
2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1891)
"Again it is a collection of A Mines, which dwindles .to two dingy little volumes.
At another time it is a wonderful burst of organ-playing, which promotes ..."
3. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"The male helps feed the young, and his frequent song by the time the young have
hatched gradually dwindles away. They feed on the various insects which they ..."
4. The English in Western India: Being the Early History of the Factory at by Philip Anderson (1854)
"... and consequent injuries inflicted upon the nU Factory—Wretched state of Bombay ;
the revenues and garrison—Disease ; the European population dwindles ..."
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