die away
verb- To die gradually or slowly.
- To diminish or wane; to cease gradually.
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“Hope!” faintly murmured Fernand, but the word seemed to die away on his pale agitated lips, and a convulsive spasm passed over his countenance.
Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
Morcerf appreciated the advice of Monte Cristo to let things die away of their own accord.
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