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• Needed replenishing
• Journalist, beyond pale, became less important
• Flowed back out, like the tide
• ___ and flowed
• Plant, end of stem becoming black, declined
• Gradually rolled back, as a tide
• Went out of section of dartboard after treble in the middle
• Say no more, level diminished
• Heartily wished class was smaller
• English bachelor with somewhere to lie went out on the beach
• Backed away after the first hint of something hot and unpleasant