Then, as if the scene before her had been stage-managed by some master of his craft, the crowd thinned, divided in two, seeking on either side the few third-class carriages in the express, and Mrs. Kaye once more saw her son and Athena Maule; saw, with a sharp pang, that the look of strain and anguish had deepened on Bayworth Kaye's face, that his poor pretence at a smile had gone.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The group had thinned around him, for there was something to do besides give sympathy to a man bereaved.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
The snow had been thinned by a thaw.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford