wanes

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As Competition Wanes, Amazon Cuts Back Its Discounts Jim Hollock’s first book, a true-crime tale set in Pennsylvania, got strong reviews and decent sales when it appeared in 2011.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2013

In the process he has handily polished off some of the best of Europe's middleweights: De Bruin, Kid Marcel, Jean Wanes.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Thy bidding she turns, the changing Moon To her Brother her full-fed fire, Dimming the Stars with her light, which soon Wanes, as she draws to him nigher.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas

Broken was the wall of the citadel of the Aesir, so that the Wanes could tread the fields of war.”

From The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 by Faraday, L. Winifred

To make matters worse she chanced to run across a newspaper criticism of a new book bearing the ominous title: "When the Honeymoon Wanes A Talk to Young Wives."

From Miss Billy — Married by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)