I thought from the first that you might be my son, Peter, and it means no diminution in my love for you that I find you are not.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Referring to this, we find that Peary says, on page 338 of his narrative: "This diminution in depth is a fact of considerable interest in reference to the possible existence of land to the westward."
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The diminution of emigration from the Rhine provinces is indeed one cause of the increase of distress among the peasant proprietary; but why emigration has ceased, when there seems more motive for it, is not so clear.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae