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Sentences starting with retiring

Retiring to her little bow-windowed room, she examined her store of clothes. [10]

Sentences ending with retiring

It is my usual hour for retiring. [9]
There was naught but kneeling and retiring. [11]

More example sentences with the word retiring in them

I and my wife think of retiring to my property by lake Larius, and there to try whether we may succeed, she and I, in becoming worthy of the salvation and capable of apprehending the truth that you have offered us. [10]
The young captain, who on board ship was so bashful and retiring, as soon as he was on land altered his time. [10]
His great schemes were completed, he was a rich man, and he had pictured himself retiring to this Seigneury, a peaceful and practical figure, living out his days in a refined repose which his earlier life had never known. [11]
Precisely because he was so strongly attached to this unfortunate woman, once so richly gifted, he desired to offer her the opportunity to obtain pardon from Heaven, and therefore insisted upon her retiring to the convent. [10]
While the chamberlain was retiring, Charles saw Barbara leaning on Malfalconnet's arm, beckoned to them, and asked her whether she had yielded to her love for dancing. [10]
Such a tumult was generally odious to her retiring nature; but to-night she felt herself merely one drop in the great, flowing river, of which every other drop felt the same impulse which was carrying her forward to her destination. [10]
Demetrius was accustomed to rise at cock-crow and go to bed at an early hour, and he was on the point of retiring even before the usual time, when Marcus came to his room and begged him to give him yet an hour. [10]
She was in the act of retiring, when Gorgias, the architect, followed by an assistant carrying surveying instruments, advanced towards her. [10]
The view I take, I believe, is the Common law principle, as to retiring officers and their successors, to which I remember but one exception, which is the case of Sheriff and ministerial officers of that class. [7]
I think the successor may forthwith do whatever the retiring J. P. might have done. [7]
There is nothing shamefaced or retiring about it, and it already takes all provinces for its own. [4]
Is her life set to the note of display, of color and show, with little sweetness, or to that retiring modesty which needs a little encouragement before it fully reveals its beauty and its perfume? [4]
Eva's prayers before retiring were often very long, but to-night it seemed as if they would never end. [10]
She was almost retiring in her manner, but she made Jack feel that she had a strong personal interest in his welfare, and she asked a hundred questions about the voyage and about town and about Edith. [4]
You are already retiring from it. [5]
The riding-horse is retiring from business everywhere in the world. [5]
The hours of retiring for the night had always been early in the Parsonage; now family prayers were at eight o'clock; directly after which Mr. Bronte and old Tabby went to bed, and Martha was not long in following. [14]
The retiring chief repeatedly expressed his judgment in favor of General McClellan for the position, and in this the nation seemed to give a unanimous concurrence. [7]
I can see Powell Street, where Nancy lived, at four o'clock on a mild and cloudy December afternoon, the decorous, retiring houses, Nancy on one side of the pavement by the iron fences and I on the other by the tree boxes. [9]
An oyster is of a retiring disposition, and not lively--not even cheerful above the average, and never enterprising. [5]
Sad as the necessity is to their delicate sensibilities, they never hesitate to advertise him of the decline of his powers, and to press upon him the propriety of retiring before he sinks into imbecility. [6]
Never was a more retiring man. [9]
You know how modest and retiring Howells seems to be, but deep down he is as vain as I am. [5]
Would it frighten men, rendering their position less stable in their own eyes, or would it feminize them--that is, make them retiring, blushing, self-conscious beings? [4]
The white of marble is modest and retiring compared with it. [5]
I suppose there is no delusion more general than that of retiring upon a fortune--as if, when gained, a fortune would let a person retire, or, still more improbable, as if it ever were really attained. [4]
Secondly it was impossible, because to paralyze the momentum with which Napoleon's army was retiring, incomparably greater forces than the Russians possessed would have been required. [2]
He gave me his word he would not retreat, but suddenly sent instructions that he was retiring that night. [2]
This was after his own heart and he had ever said that his dear avocat would have been a brilliant orator, were it not for his retiring spirit. [11]
Before retiring to her tent, she inspected the result of the shooting expedition and was satisfied. [10]
On retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears kept coming into her eyes. [2]
In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye. [5]
Here, to the farm, accompanied by a maid, she had been in the habit of retiring from time to time, and here she came in early July. [9]
And," he added eagerly, as the others with reverential bows were retiring, "and don't forget, I do not command--I entreat her. [10]
The State had confiscated his extensive and valuable lands, and the young officer, after retiring from the service, had purchased them with the splendid fortune left to Gorgo by her grandmother. [10]
The enormous Drissa camp was formed on Pfuel's plan, and there was no intention of retiring farther. [2]
Another and a better man gave up the keys, for heroes are sometimes hidden away in meek and retiring people who wear spectacles and have a stoop to their shoulders. [9]
Few things could be more intolerable to the gentle and retiring widow than such a riot of the people. [10]
True, wrath boiled and seethed in her breast, but before retiring she only said briefly, with a seriousness which revealed the contempt concealed beneath: "You were quite right, Maestro Appenzelder. [10]
The trout is a retiring and harmless animal, except when he is aroused and forced into a combat; and then his agility, fierceness, and vindictiveness become apparent. [4]

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