As long as the exertion was possible even to the heroic force which age had not Abated, Moses thus prayed for his people; for the gesture was a prayer, and a grand one, and must not be criticised otherwise than as the act of a poetic and primitive genius, whose institutions throughout are full of spiritual import.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Only when the smoke Abated, did they shout with joy, and wanted to rush towards the boy, but in vain, as no power could force the horses to move ahead.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
When the rush of the storm had Abated we began digging our way out.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook