Retaining

Examples

• Set going under adequate conditions they are magnets for gathering and retaining an indefinitely wide scope of intellectual considerations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It lies near the pliable elasticity by which some persons take on the color of their surroundings while retaining their own bent. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I shan't be one long,' he replied, looking up with a face retaining no human expression but rage and terror. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Certainly, certainly, said Marks, with a conciliatory tone; it's only a retaining fee, you see,--he! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He showed and claimed for the first time the knotting bill, which loops and forms the knot, and the turning cord holder for retaining the end of the cord. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• His failure was but proof that he needed more discipline, and thus afforded a reason for retaining the old methods. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They became not very devout Moslems, retaining many traces of their earlier barbaric Shamanism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You don't want any beer,' said Nancy, folding her arms, and retaining her seat very composedly. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• This is to protect the tank against pressure of water on the sides, and to assist in retaining heat. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It had been serviceable in deadening the first shock, without retaining any influence to alarm. Jane Austen. Emma.
• These blooms consist of particles of nearly pure iron cohering, but retaining still a quantity of slag or vitreous material, and other impurities, which slag, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Come, gentlemen,' continued Mr. Pickwick, still retaining his hold upon the jar, 'a toast. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Retaining the letterI recklessly altered the spirit of the _r?le_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• One day while playing thus Tarzan had thrown his rope at one of his fleeing companions, retaining the other end in his grasp. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• She found herself more successful in sending away than in retaining a companion. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I ought never to have hunted you out, or, having done it, I ought to have persisted in retaining you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Henry Crawford's retaining her hand at such a moment, a moment of such peculiar proof and importance, was worth ages of doubt and anxiety. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Editor: Pasquale