Word: sinkingly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...loved river's fountain, then, I'll sink to rise no more...
...fringe of drooping foliage in ripples seemed to sink...
STUDENTS in economic science must have watched the Grange movement in the West this summer with much curiosity. Whether any valuable principle will be satisfactorily tested, or whether the farmers, blind from ignorance, will take the outstretched hand of politicians, and, after trying some unsound, plausible scheme, eventually sink back into their old state of comparative inferiority, are yet open questions. But it seems as if this country was about to learn by experience, what Scandinavia has long practised, that agriculturists can co-operate, as advantageously as other producers, both in selling their products and in buying implements and vital...
...truly wise is sparing of his words. His mind is not shallow, with its thoughts all lying upon the surface; it is rather like one of those calm, deep pools sometimes found in the course of a noisy stream. The little troubles of life sink into its placid depths, leaving scarcely a ripple behind. Its habitual calm is disturbed by nothing less than a flood or an earthquake...