Jones retired from the company, in which we have seen him engaged, into the fields, where he intended to cool himself by a walk in the open air before he attended Mr Allworthy.
It is sufficient that it lasted a full quarter of an hour, at the conclusion of which they retired into the thickest part of the grove.
Pierre was one of those
retired gentlemen-in-waiting of whom there were hundreds good-humoredly ending their days in Moscow.
Minto Square, Great Clive Street, Warren Street, Hastings Street, Ochterlony Place, Plassy Square, Assaye Terrace ("gardens" was a felicitous word not applied to stucco houses with asphalt terraces in front, so early as 1827)--who does not know these respectable abodes of the
retired Indian aristocracy, and the quarter which Mr.
The ladies, then, having
retired to their chamber, and the others having disposed themselves with as little discomfort as they could, Don Quixote sallied out of the inn to act as sentinel of the castle as he had promised.
The wax doll Queen spoke prettily to Dorothy and the others, and sent her loving greetings to Ozma before she
retired to the rooms prepared for her.
It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then
retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines.
As the Pawnees
retired with the body, the Siouxes pressed upon their footsteps, and at length the whole of the latter broke out of the cover with a common yell, and threatened to bear down all opposition by sheer physical superiority.
Possessed by one single thought--that of the promise he had made, and of the responsibility he had taken--he
retired last to his chamber, begged the host to procure him a map of the province, bent over it, examined every line traced upon it, perceived that there were four different roads from Bethune to Armentieres, and summoned the lackeys.
True it is that this young country girl might allege as her excuse the agitation into which the king seemed to be thrown, for Mademoiselle de la Valliere, busily engaged in closing the door, had involuntarily fixed her eyes upon the king, who, as he
retired backwards, had his face towards it.
Monsieur had just
retired, and the youthful Louis, remaining the last, was amusing himself by placing some lead soldiers in a line of battle, a game which delighted him much.
You begin." So the Sun
retired behind a cloud, and the Wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveller.