| 1. | It was not for his friend to abate that confidence. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rag. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | May well abate the over-merry spleen. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | A kind of wick or snuff that will abate i. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | That you withdraw you and abate your strength. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | slacken, abate Aboute prime upon the nexte day. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 7. | You would abate the strength of your displeasure. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | Helen regarded me, probably with surprise I could not now abate my agitation, though I tried hard I continued to weep aloud. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 9. | slacken, abate Right so this marquis fully hath purpos'd To tempt his wife, as he was first dispos'd. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 10. | When the snow storm abated a moment we looked again. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 11. | She hath abated me of half my trai. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 12. | As most abated captives to some natio. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 13. | When the waters abated the ship rested on Mount Othrys in Thessaly, or according to some on Mount Parnassus. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 14. | She never abated the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the distinctness or the order of her words. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 15. | He walked up one street, and down another, until exercise had abated the first passion of his grief and then the revulsion of feeling made him thirsty. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 16. | But the fagged whale abated his speed, and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 17. | Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the groun. - from The King James Bible |
| 18. | As soon as aunt's tribadic rage to possess the Frankland was thus abated for the moment, she allowed Mrs. - from The Romance of Lust by Anonymous |