Retiring

Examples

• One night, as they were sitting within the cabin before retiring, Tarzan turned to D'Arnot. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• To prevent the possibility of this I proposed retiring into some quiet village in Devonshire. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• In spite of his seemingly retiring manners a very intrusive person, this Secretary and lodger, in Miss Bella's opinion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• When the time drew near for retiring, Mr. Bounderby took a glass of water. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• That is the best I can do for you, he said, stepping down and retiring to the path, where he resumed the smoking of his pipe as he walked up and down. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Very sorry to hear it, sir, said Pratt, retiring. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• By which means we conceive the future as flowing every moment nearer us, and the past as retiring. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Was not a bowl of prussic acid the cause of Fair Rosamond's retiring from the world? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He has had the reputation of being a man of eccentric habits, secretive and retiring. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was hunting everywhere for heretics as timid old ladies are said to look under beds and in cupboards for burglars before retiring for the night. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• An oyster is of a retiring disposition, and not lively--not even cheerful above the average, and never enterprising. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Your grandmamma, if so addressed by one of her daughters, at any age, would have insisted on her retiring to a dark apartment. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And as for stewarding, I think it's time my brother gave that up, and took his House in hand on his sister's retiring. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his discrimination. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• As it appeared that he wished to depart to-night, I replied that we would see him before retiring. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This made me, I dare say, more timid and retiring than I naturally was and cast me upon Dolly as the only friend with whom I felt at ease. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He kept his eyes upon her, and kept advancing; and she, completely under his influence, kept retiring before him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Excuse me, Countess, if I set you the example of retiring, I said. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Then retiring two steps backward, he permitted the lady to move on. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Lights occasionally appeared in the different windows of the house, or glanced from the staircases, as if the inmates were retiring to rest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• So Mr Dorrit, retiring into the next room, put himself under the hands of his valet, and in five minutes came back glorious. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Consequently,' said the other gentleman, retiring on his main position, 'why Row? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Only, shy and retiring as your general manner was, I wondered what personal or facial enormity in me proved so magnetic to your usually averted eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• When he is at last adjusted like a lay-figure, Mr. Chadband, retiring behind the table, holds up his bear's-paw and says, My friends! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He finished by freezing a cup of tea for his own drinking, and retiring at his lowest temperature. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But he had hoped that it might be shyness, her retiring character, her foreknowledge of the state of his heart, anything short of aversion. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I wonder whether she ever insisted on people's retiring into the ball of St Paul's; and if she did, how she got them there! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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