Then the noise started again, receding, moving down the driveway, significant of a departure.

Here, already receding behind them, was what had once seemed the ultimate goal of rocket engineering.

To his relief he found that his fright was receding.

His face was thinner, and he had lost a little more hair from that sandy, receding mop.

There was a scent, faint as a dream receding, of the woman who was gone.

The marriage ended the Princess's life of independence which had been swiftly receding since her engagement.

The easy distance of the blood loss was receding, leaving me real, and alive, and wanting to stay that way.

And he bounded after her, with Chen's plaintive yell receding behind him.

The third pattern is one of receding famine.

The viewscreen showed the ship's orbital departure, with Vemlar quickly receding.

Because over here..." Another wavering line, receding to the south and showing much less detail.

The bold design of the clock -its face framed by receding squares - is seldom seen on the market.

Even along these paved lanes, the lights of the oncoming and receding traffic made no conclusive argument for a living population.

He was a man of Troal's age, with a severely receding hairline and the same archaic spectacles the key had shown.

The lake began receding in 8000 B.C. and the metamorphosis of the Meadowlands was under way.

Still, photographers sometimes picked viewpoints that blocked receding perspectives and ironed space into a semblance of Japanese painting.

The silence that followed this deadly thunderburst was deafening, broken only by the whisper of rapidly receding footfalls.

But they still are the most dynamic and visible of the new generation of owners arriving as the patricians are receding.

Prices for pork bellies fell for a sixth straight session as receding Midwest floods let farmers bring hogs to market.

The pretense concerning the sale of nuclear weaponry and America's mock threats in light of receding trade sanctions are too dangerous to be ignored.

The Island was receding fast and Brett realized the coracle's bowline had broken free of the dockside cable.

He saw Rab in the back, receding from him down the road, face set in a saucy wink and giving him the thumbs-up.

Victor got out of the car slowly, each move- ment a struggle, the pain in his eyes receding, the spasm in his back subsiding.

With the threat of war receding from traders' minds, oil experts said the market was paying more attention to the fundamentals, the balance of supply and demand.

Maia glanced overboard as the sea rolled back again, nearly cresting at the gunnels this time, before receding even more reluctantly than before.

The light receded, but for a long while no one moved.

With the company back in the black, some of these problems have receded.

After 15 minutes, the water began to recede, and he saw her.

They were way off to the side now, and receding fast.

The feeling receded enough for him to keep his eyes open.

All at once the water receded and the fire died away.

"So I think whatever line there once was is receding very quickly."

But even as he saw it the world seemed to be receding.

This is the third year since first I began to recede from myself.

She seemed to recede, and now it was difficult to call to her.

By 1996, this had receded to the point where a deal was possible.

The river has, however, receded since away to the north.

The cold war was receding, but not quite that fast.

That became more true as the event itself receded in time.

Once there, he began to move away again, receding into the distance.

"It takes a while for something like this to recede."

Now that moment itself is receding, without the war having ended.

Florida was a long ways down already, and receding fast.

Well, he would just have to get those data when they receded from the star again.

This means that with the years the near point recedes.

For the first time Charles's death receded into the past.

Five days later, on March 21, the water finally receded to 24 feet.

We have to wait for the water to recede in some places.

His hair did seem to be receding, true, but it was not.

They too receded in a second line from the spot.