decrescent

Example Sentences

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The decrescent moon would scarcely survive the dawn, and meanwhile there would be darkness everywhere away from the golden heart of the dance in that great hall spinning with light and motion.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Pursuing their way, they kept to the least frequented paths; endeavouring to avoid recognition; until the coming night concealed them, and they journeyed beneath the decrescent and feebly shining moon.

From The Advocate by Heavysege, Charles

The windows wide open let in across the sound of the burbling stream the warm air of the lucid May night, where bats and owls and evejars flew across the face of the decrescent moon.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

The crescent is employed as a charge in heraldry, with its horns vertical; when they are turned to the dexter side of the shield, it is called increscent, when to the sinister, decrescent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

The clock was striking two, as they reached Tom quad, and the decrescent moon to contradict him was already above the roofs.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton