He remained there for the rest of his life, with the flow of poems and letters gradually dwindling, and lived in total obscurity until his death, from a stroke, in 1864, at the age of seventy.
Actually, I did try to take her seven-letter last name, but it had dwindled to two letters after a bank bundled it with other last names and invested them in tricycles retrofitted with jet engines.
Anyone out there anxious about dwindling supplies of 35mm film canisters (Letters, 16 May) needs to make friends with a diabetic.
All of us still delight in the discovery of a letter in the mailbox amidst the bills and advertisements, but dwindling numbers of us remain who actually write letters.
Letter writing is a subtle – and dwindling – art.
Nearly a decade later, hopes of a Powell coup are dwindling, and a new constitution is a dead letter.
The petition dwindled to a short letter in the Nation and Athenaeum, signed by Forster and Virginia Woolf, that focused on the chilling effects of censorship on writers.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's career included interviewing John Kennedy's gravedigger, exchanging letters with serial killer Son of Sam and documenting the dwindling hope for survivors in the wreckage of 9/11.
Described by the newspaper as "persistent, detailed, passionate, and sometimes politely menacing," the letters revealed a very varied array of royal concerns, from the dwindling Patagonian tooth fish population to the preservation of historic Irish jails.
After the letter was published, Mr. Rostropovich and Ms. Vishnevskaya were unable to travel abroad and faced dwindling engagements at home.
