Restore them to thy master; or, if he scorns to accept them, retain
them, good friend, for thine own use.
My two brothers, moved by my example, gave him each a thousand ducats, so that there was left for my father four thousand ducats in money, besides three thousand, the value of the portion that fell to him which he preferred to retain
in land instead of selling it.
It was not so clear as I could have wished; but I remembered that it must be "Upward, and yet not Northward", and I determined steadfastly to retain
these words as the clue which, if firmly grasped, could not fail to guide me to the solution.
It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain
, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary--that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.
The Achaeans and Aetolians were kept friendly by them, the kingdom of Macedonia was humbled, Antiochus was driven out; yet the merits of the Achaeans and Aetolians never secured for them permission to increase their power, nor did the persuasions of Philip ever induce the Romans to be his friends without first humbling him, nor did the influence of Antiochus make them agree that he should retain
any lordship over the country.
Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy's marriage; but as she thought it advisable to retain
the right of visiting at Pemberley, she dropt all her resentment; was fonder than ever of Georgiana, almost as attentive to Darcy as heretofore, and paid off every arrear of civility to Elizabeth.
She had no admiration for them now; she almost hated them for the dance they had led her; not a thing of all that had been theirs did she retain
but the old seal and spoon.
You will be responsible if the enemy is able to direct a force of any size against Petersburg to threaten this capital in which it has not been possible to retain
many troops; for with the army entrusted to you, and acting with resolution and energy, you have ample means to avert this fresh calamity.
I have never known the devil retain
his grip on that.
He managed by a skillful handling of his net to retain
all the large fish and to draw them to the shore; but he could not prevent the smaller fish from falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea.
If Americans are to retain
the sacred liberties for which their fathers strove, Congress must declare our independence of European dictation by maintaining the price of mules.
So that as 64/87 seeds germinated after an immersion of 28 days; and as 18/94 plants with ripe fruit (but not all the same species as in the foregoing experiment) floated, after being dried, for above 28 days, as far as we may infer anything from these scanty facts, we may conclude that the seeds of 14/100 plants of any country might be floated by sea-currents during 28 days, and would retain
their power of germination.
And now both together attacked our heroe, whose blows did not retain
that force with which they had fallen at first, so weakened was he by his combat with Thwackum; for though the pedagogue chose rather to play
Frederic Larsan, no more than myself, could retain
In all the different representations of Socrates, whether of Xenophon or Plato, and the differences of the earlier or later Dialogues, he always retains
the character of the unwearied and disinterested seeker after truth, without which he would have ceased to be Socrates.