Crossword-Solution: WAXINGS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Like a menacing enemy the shadow dogged the steps of the man who came out of the night, now towering over him in monstrous height against a tree trunk, now suddenly falling backward and darting swiftly down a forest aisle in panic fear, only to spring forth with gigantic leaps and grotesque waxings and wanings and inane caperings at his heels as the firelight rose and fell.

But this book--purporting to be the medley of my mind, the _bonâ fide_ emptying of its multifarious fancies--must of necessity, if honest, pourtray all the wanings and waxings of an ever-changing lunar disposition: so, haply you shall turn from a play to a sermon, from a novel to a moral treatise, from a satire or an epigram to a religious essay.

Its waxings and wanings were marked by curious "trepidations" of brightness extremely perplexing to theory.

Their frontiers constantly shifted to and fro according to frequently recurring waxings and wanings in strength of this or that _daimyo_, and these fluctuations depended, in their turn, on the results sometimes of petty skirmishes and sometimes of political intrigues, so that an unwavering steadiness was the least thing to be expected at that time.