"Decreased" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shed, watching the men as they tramped back and forth, around the building. He knew that sooner or later there would be a minute or two of relaxation, and of this he had determined to take advantage. But it was not until sound in the town had perceptibly decreased in volume that there was any sign of the men relaxing their vigil. And then he noted them congregating at ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... like medieval serfs, and even harnessed to carts like beasts of burden. The trade unions were abolished, and the workers were forbidden to strike, on pain of imprisonment or death. Yet despite these measures the output of factories, mills, and mines steadily decreased. Industry stagnated, and business fell away. The millions of Russia were starving in a ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson
... cells as a whole made up some 4000. Inasmuch as the latter contained polynuclears, lymphocytes and other forms, it follows that in this case the polynuclear neutrophils must have been very much decreased, not only relatively but also absolutely; so that this case represents precisely the contrary condition to ordinary leucocytosis and the infectious form ...
— Histology of the Blood - Normal and Pathological • Paul Ehrlich
... various animals, securing some by craft, some by strength, and some by fleetness; and let us suppose that the fleetest prey, a deer for instance, had from any change in the country increased in numbers, or that other prey had decreased in numbers, during that season of the year when the wolf was hardest pressed for food. Under such circumstances the swiftest and slimmest wolves have the best chance of surviving, and so be preserved or selected, provided always that they retained strength ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin
... Paradise waiting his race in the near or remote future. Thus, as the immanence of the Divine within the soul of man has deepened, and the desire of his heart has grown nearer the desire of the world-soul, so has the power of memory decreased and been transformed into hope. Man, tossed from illusion to illusion, has grown sensitive to the ...
— The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain - Nineteenth Century Europe • J. A. Cramb
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