Bill feels a sensation like “subsiding into a pile of bones.”
Has the subsiding of the 1990s crime wave changed - not only the quantity of gun incidents - but also the character?
One factor is the subsiding of the crack-cocaine epidemic that hit Washington hard in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
"I wanted only to know where I am," Tolto replied, subsiding meekly.
She and d'Alcacer up there seemed to dominate the tumult which was now subsiding.
In the roll of thunder, swelling and subsiding, he whispered in his ear a sarcastic: "Of course!"
These subsiding, she viewed the matter from its business aspect.
Save for subsiding bubbles, and the bogus water, there was nothing there.
I said, I thought the heat a little, and but a little, subsiding.
This, with a glance at Dominick heaving in the subsiding storm of his mirth.