Lent, of course, came in opportunely, just when the first riotous flush of the year was subsiding; in Lent one could not live in luxury and go to theatres, even if one could afford it.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Indeed, when I think of the sort of life he was gradually subsiding into out there, I sometimes wonder if he would ever have attained to such a capacity for moral effort as he afterwards displayed unless the war had evoked the illusion that he ought to go home and enlist, and so had opened to him the wealth of bargains to be picked up in England.
"Command"
William McFee
Like these, when the sun has set, it is subsiding into a fixed repose, a stern and colourless uniformity.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr