"Diminuendo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... diminuendo note; it slackened to a throbbing murmur. The brute had stopped, and close to them. The brute ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay
... ought it to show forth so as to avoid an anticlimax to one passing along the same front from the opposite direction? We promptly saw,—as the reader sees, no doubt, before we can tell it,—that what we wanted was two crescendos meeting somewhere near the middle; a crescendo passing into a diminuendo from whichever end you moved to the other—a swell. We saw that our loud-pedal effect should come upon "Middle Hall." So there, on its lucky bit of Greek porch, we bestowed the purple wistaria for spring, and for late summer that fragrant snowdrift, the clematis paniculata, ...
— The Amateur Garden • George W. Cable |
