And the salutation is prolonged by a string of words spoken in a rapid decrescendo, quick; quick; a Basque prayer rattled breathlessly, begun very loudly, then dying at the finish.
"Ramuntcho"
Pierre Loti
Ivan, ghost-haunted, found each minute of each day pregnant with its own suggestion: saw his life as a tapestry, the design of which was woven upon a background of surpassing natural beauty-the climax and gradual decrescendo of the year.
"The Genius"
Margaret Horton Potter
Some start from the inorganic, and, by compounding it with itself, claim to form the living; others place life first, and proceed towards matter by a skilfully managed decrescendo; but, for both, there are only differences of degree in nature-degrees of complexity in the first hypothesis, of intensity in the second.
"Creative Evolution"
Henri Bergson