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• In the morning, one might say, his face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve o'clock, meridian -- his dinner hour -- it blazed like a grate full of Christmas coals; and continued blazing -- but, as it were, with a gradual wane -- till six o'clock, PM, or thereabouts; after which, I saw no more of the proprietor of the face, [...].
• His influence which was on the wane during the reign of Joseph II grew still less during the reign of Leopold II (1790-2).
• It was very dark, for although the sky was clear the moon was now well in the wane, and would not rise till the small hours.
• The situation of the Venetian party in the wane of the eighteenth century had become extremely critical.
• Sapwood, or even bark, may appear on the corners, or may have been cut off, resulting in wane, or missing timber.
• You saw but sorrow in its waning form.
• I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust.
• Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.
• And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties ; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].
• And in the cool twilight when the sea-winds wane[...]
• The skies may hold not the splendour of sundown fast; / It wanes into twilight as dawn dies down into day.
• The fall of Jack, and the subsequent fall of Jill, simply represent the vanishing of one moon-spot after another, as the moon wanes.
• Fast as autumn days toward winter: yet it seems//Here that autumn wanes not, here that woods and streams
• The snow which had been for some time waning, had given way entirely under the fresh gale of the preceding night.
• Proud once and princely was the mansion, ere a succession of spendthrifts waned away its splendour.