"Die away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he changed his strain to an adagio, and suffered his music to die away in the plaintive notes of Roslin Castle, the echoes of the old walls were, after a long slumber, awakened by that enthusiastic burst of applause, with which the Scots usually received and ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... no more. The old colonel's voice, which had been beating on my brain like a hammer, seemed to die away ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... room opened and Tommy and his father came out into the hall. Sally stepped back into shadows and watched them walk quickly down the hall to the stairs, their voices low, hushed. She heard them descend the stairs, their footsteps dwindle, die away into ...
— The Calm Man • Frank Belknap Long
... had scarce begun to die away towards Shoreby, before fresh hoofs came echoing in their wake, and another deserter clattered down the road; this time a single rider, and, by his splendid armour, a man of high degree. Close after him there followed several baggage-waggons, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... or cry out Lewis stood on the edge. From far down in the blue depths of the crevasse there arose a terrible sound, as if of a heavy blow. It was followed by the familiar rattling of masses of falling ice, which seemed to die away in the ...
— Rivers of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
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