It vanished little by little, as the snow slowly subsides, filtering into the ground.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
Among other things he tells Maitreya of a chant of the Earth, who said, "When I hear a king sending word to another by his ambassador, 'This earth is mine: immediately resign your pretensions to it,' I am moved to violent laughter at first; but it soon subsides in pity for the infatuated fool."
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann
Not the affection into which the love of one's youth subsides, but the wild, the ungovernable passion peculiar to the heroes and heroines of novels, and young ladies and gentlemen recently emancipated from boarding-schools and colleges.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner