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Despite what interest it might have spiked in me in the first place, it has now subdued to a simple regular lulling sound drowsing my mind.
In late 1778 and 1779, British forces reconquered Georgia, the only state completely subdued during the war.
Leaves are changing color to intense reds and pinks, vivid oranges and yellows, and more subdued browns and coppers as they fall.
Kate Hudson is unexpectedly subdued as Caroline, demonstrating none of the slightly manic kookiness that she normally trades in.
Feeling more subdued than usual, I wandered the streets in a deep, reflective mood and thought about my mother.
This evening he was clearly more subdued, giving out police hotline numbers and playing thoughtful, reflective music.
By the end of 1938, the arrival of large military reinforcements meant that resistance was largely subdued.
Plant the right foot and a subdued V8 bellow could be heard as it just shoots itself forward, and this happens at any speed.
Her blog was recently resurrected in a more subdued incarnation, but it still brings the traffic.
The suddenly subdued streets, we were told, were the engines that drove anti-Americanism in the region.
Bonetti's dismissal and Artero's outstanding strike effort apart, the second period was almost subdued compared to the first 45 minutes.
Much of it was subdued with shadows filling every corner reaching the apex of the vaulted ceiling.
The corps seemed a bit subdued, doubtless saving themselves for the rigors to come.
After such vibrant appetizers, some of the more subtle noodle dishes taste a tad subdued.
The valves of beyrichonids, however, are less inflated and lobation is subdued in comparison to hipponicharionids.
This subdued range of luminosity makes it hard to accurately judge picture quality.
And platinum, because of its subdued, understated style, becomes the perfect choice.
Behind us my guards and H'risnth's entourage tailed along, Kh'hitch engaged in a subdued exchange with the ambassador.
But things had gone off the boil at Burnden and Alan Ball's Exeter made an already subdued crowd of 5,631 even quieter.
The death was a shock to all on board and it was a subdued company that made sail for Bermuda.
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Examples from Classical Literature
On this occasion, Kohima and other villages were subdued, as already stated, and an annual tribute exacted by Manipur.
I was a cipher in this august company, and felt subdued, not to say torpid.
She told her story with sense and straightness, her frenzy subdued by the day's rigour.
She saw that his natural gayety and joie de vivre, long subdued, were again welling up within him.
But they were so lifelike in their subdued color in the shade that he was for a moment startled.
For it is not a poetic fiction when we are told that a wayward spirit, is subdued by nature's loveliness and lovingness.
He subdued the Silures, and held the other native tribes in check till he was superseded by Agricola.
We know that Solomon was in possession of idumea, but whether it was subdued by Nebuchadnezzar is doubtful.
But the perseverance of a bad mind in the accomplishment of a bad action is not to be subdued.
At the subdued tone, the unexpected words, she turned to him apprehensively.
They opened mines, subdued vast wildernesses, tunneled mountains for railways and syphoned them for irrigation.
She wore a tastily trimmed hat, with veil, a well fitting seal coat and a plaided silk skirt of subdued colors.
One should bathe there, O virtuous one, with subdued soul and leading a brahmacharya mode of life.
Marjon accompanied him with soft, subdued guitar-strokes, and with her alto voice.
The opinion of my divinity assisted my arms and subdued all nations before me, from the Granicus to the Ganges.
The great fire at the docks, after gutting several warehouses, was finally subdued.
But how is it that they are subdued into that spherical obedience, like a crystal of wavellite?
From the canebrake a nightingale was singing softly, as if the beauty of the night had subdued its plaintive song.
His face was so apoplectically purple that the bruises on his patched-up countenance were subdued somewhat by lack of contrast.
As soon as the parties are formed, all sit down on the ground, and begin to chaunt prayers in a slow and subdued tone.
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