Retreats
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Examples
- At last the enemy retreats, and then Smallweed fetches Mr. Jobling up. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If he retreats and you follow, he must lose his material and much of his army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- One by one the tribe swung down from their arboreal retreats and formed a circle about Tarzan and his vanquished foe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- New mills, when erected, were provided with this system, and many mills in their quiet retreats everywhere awoke from their drowsy methods and were equipped with the new one. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Mr. Guppy retreats behind a chair. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Without these hospitable retreats, travel in Palestine would be a pleasure which none but the strongest men could dare to undertake. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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