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1 However it should lessen by Tuesday with partly cloudy conditions thereafter.
2 This may lessen by some infinitesimal fraction the almost infinite contempt in which your pet customarily holds you.
3 I sought to rise, to go to meet her slow approach, to lessen by a second this agony of waiting.
4 The second he tried to lessen by moving the omission of the words "peaceably and in a reasonable manner."
5 Map of path of typhoon Haiyan Haiyan is expected to lessen by Saturday as it moves across the South China Sea towards Vietnam.
6 There is the solace of literature; Black Care is lessened by song.
7 The output-again a beautiful word-ofthe age is lessened by this abstention.
8 His regrets were lessened by his promotion to the rank of brigadier-general.
9 Nor was Joan's horror lessened by the conduct of the Poonga-Poonga boys.
10 Now every moment's pleasure was refined, drained, siphoned, lessened by each bell-note.
11 Fortunately, they live in L.A., so their perfection is lessened by distance.
12 Gradually his contortions became spasmodic, lessening by degrees until they ceased entirely.
13 Anne's good-will, however, was not to be lessened by what she heard.
14 The horror of the situation was not lessened by its grotesqueness.
15 The frequency of rebleeding can be lessened by early surgical or endovascular intervention.
16 The humor of the thing was not a whit lessened by its looks.
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