Retires

Examples

• Obedient to a nod from the trooper, Phil retires, empty-handed, to the other end of the gallery. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Milverton is a heavy sleeper, and retires punctually at ten-thirty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Fabre, fighting for a particular female who sits by, an apparently unconcerned beholder of the struggle, and then retires with the conqueror. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn brings it a little forward for her with his clumsy bow and retires into a window opposite. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The former retires early and sleeps at the top of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He retires with his friend, guided down another staircase by the young gardener, and presently is heard to drive away. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And with this, and a profound bow to his patrons, the Manager retires, and the curtain rises. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The trooper retires to a distant part of the room and resumes his curious inspection of the boxes, strong and otherwise. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And the philosopher 'who retires under the shelter of a wall' can hardly have been esteemed happy by him, at least not in this world. Plato. The Republic.
• In the dry season, it comes down to the banks of the rivers; in the wet season, it retires to the upper country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn retires into another chamber; bells ring, feet shuffle and patter, silence ensues. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Typist: Sean