He bowed his head in contentment until the last noise of the moccasin on the snow died away. He knew his son was beyond recall. Then his hand moved out from the furs to touch the wood.
In relation to the tragedy that you mentioned, I learned about it from the media and the first thing came to my mind is that if it was military operation, people would have died straight away.
" Oh, well, what else can you expect from a Yankee man and a white-trash girl" ? Then, after a discreet pause which gave Gerald's splutterings time to die away, she knocked on the door and handed the dress to her mother.
On, on to Zion! cried the crowd of Mormons, and the words rippled down the long caravan, passing from mouth to mouth until they died away in a dull murmur in the far distance.
The moment he realised this, it died away; Harry lay panting on the floor, staring up at the ceiling, the scar on his forehead throbbing horribly. Ron was bending over him, looking very worried.
It struck cold to our hearts, and I stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it had died away into the silence from which it rose.
It was almost middle night when the noise died away and the animals became quiet. The next day, papa fixed all the broken wood in the walls of the barn.
The sounds from below soon died away. Then Wolf Larsen came alone on deck. There was a slight flush under his bronze, but otherwise he bore no signs of the battle.
What a stupid situation to have landed himself in...and now the last few footsteps were dying away; he could hear the scraping of trunks and loud babble of talk.
Although the Olympic Games fell into decline after Greece was conquered by the Roman Empire in 146BC, the spirit of the games did not die away altogether.