falling-off

• “Think of it, old man, three years in this end of the earth, this falling-off place for the damned!”

  THE FAITH OF MEN

• “This sad and solitary ocean, gray and cold, is the end of all things, the falling-off place where all things cease.”

  CHAPTER XXXIII

• “It seems strange that a man who is a relationship counselor should let himself fall into the trap of a one-night stand, unless of course he is not a good counselor, which would account for the falling-off practice and his own discontent.”

  Moral Universes « Tales from the Reading Room

• “Then it was that Mr. Haveby sent Bunster to Lord Howe, the falling-off place.”

  MAUKI

• “Yes, there's been a falling-off of that euphoria since then, but how could great expectations not dim upon meeting reality?”

  Carla Seaquist: Deep Breath, Democrats, Change Takes Time and Work

• “As for the lows, the Rosenfeld reviews and stories routinely collected under the rubric of a sorry falling-off from early promise are in fact "a marvel of output," as Mark Schechner has written.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Curse of Promise Unfulfilled

• “This falling-off of interest in a research issue is the final stage in the normal process of science Valente and Rogers, 1993.”

  Simon & Schuster: Diffusion of Innovations

• “As the ghost said to Hamlet, "What a falling-off was there!”

  Newsweek: Hillary Rodham Powell?

• “The article closes with a falling-off so delicate it might easily be missed.”

  David Bromwich: Hezbollah Is in Iran, Michael Gordon Says American Officials Say

• “Some falling-off is of merchandises is expected. eeckthecat says:”

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