Hardly half a dozen monasteries survive, inhabited by small and ever dwindling communities.
The impetus of the Austrian attack was dwindling.
The party fears infighting will further dent its dwindling popularity.
So, far from reaching that point the pessimists foretold—where we have exhausted the meager resources of earth and find ourselves dwindling away—something entirely different is happening.
A series of heavy combats revealed his Pontefract in 1536, during the Pilgrimage of Grace, the archbishop, and Grant pursued the dwindling remnants of Lee's was compelled to join the rebels, but he did not sympathize with purpose army t o the westward.