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Sentences starting with surrender

Surrender of the remnant. [5]

Sentences ending with surrender

In that moment, while he still held her hand, she experienced the greatest joy that woman ever knows--the bliss of absolute surrender. [4]
The bands to which the woman belonged were forced by the cavalry into the palaestra and the neighbouring Maander, and kept there until Eumedes brought re-enforcements and compelled the Gauls to surrender. [10]
Soon the two were clean cut off from the French army, and must fight to the death or surrender. [11]
He would not wait for starvation to compel the infidel to surrender. [11]
He found this too agitating to dwell upon, summoning, as it did, conjectures of the men she might have known; and it was perhaps natural, in view of her attitude, that he could only think of such a decision on her part as surrender. [9]
Have you come to surrender? [11]
Joan summoned Troyes to surrender. [5]
She must swear to return to the city in case of a surrender. [10]
One would need to be very much in love"--and Miss Forsythe blushed a little as she said it--"to make such a surrender. [4]
Commonly, in romances, the woman gives no sign of it, does not admit it to herself, denies it in her words and in her conduct, and never owns it until the final surrender. [4]

Short sentences using surrender

Who talks of surrender? [10]
I am beaten--I surrender. [5]
No surrender yet. [9]
We surrender. [11]

Sentences containing surrender two or more times

And if we surrender the control of it, do we not surrender the right of self-government? [7]

More example sentences with the word surrender in them

This stubborn spirit would surrender now. [5]
To surrender now would mean destruction. [9]
He added that, when his patience was at an end, he should positively insist on its surrender and bring every means at his disposal into play to procure it. [10]
Let whoever means well go the town-hall, and demand a surrender before it is too late. [10]
We would as well consent to separation at once, including the surrender of this Capital. [7]
The National Mark Twain Association did not surrender easily. [5]
It proposed a truce, and a meeting with himself at a village near, for conference upon the surrender of Detricand's small army. [11]
They only surrender to us what they gave us for a consideration long, long ago; what they have not now asked for, struggled or cared for; what has been thrust upon them, not less to their astonishment than to ours. [7]
She had not to think of herself as weak, and neither was her lover's image dimmed to her by any surrender of his own principle or his own ideal. [4]
I will surrender to the Maid of Orleans alone, and to no other. [5]
I'm not inclined to surrender, or to stand by men who have botched our business for us. [11]
If she is to stay in the background and pretend to surrender her choice to her parents, and with it all the delights of a matrimonial campaign, she will still maintain a position of observation. [4]
It was commissioned to demand from Psamtik the surrender of his own person and of the city at discretion. [10]
Chance contrives that though he directs all his efforts to prepare an expedition against England (which would inevitably have ruined him) he never carries out that intention, but unexpectedly falls upon Mack and the Austrians, who surrender without a battle. [2]
Such years were those that followed the double-shotted demand for the surrender of Fort Sumter. [5]
I lived again those moments that had followed Nancy's surrender, seeking to recall and fix in my mind every word that had escaped from her lips--the trivial things that to lovers are so fraught with meaning. [9]
But to do this, of course, would be a surrender to the German contentions, an acknowledgment of the wisdom of the German methods against which she is protesting with all her might. [9]
But who is this officer breaking his sword to bits against the fence, rather than surrender it to a Yankee? [9]
We offer you this chance, and it is the last: throw down your arms; surrender unconditionally to the Republic, and all will be forgiven. [5]
Only, now and then, there is a letter of abject humiliation and complete surrender, when some golden vision, some iridescent soap-bubble, had vanished at his touch. [5]
You press for the surrender of a servant of the god, and Philometor will not neglect--" "Will not neglect," interrupted Euergetes, "to inform the mighty Asclepiodorus that he wants the sweet creature for me, and not for himself. [10]
With other signs, the popular elections then just past indicated uneasiness among ourselves, while, amid much that was cold and menacing, the kindest words coming from Europe were uttered in accents of pity that we are too blind to surrender a hopeless cause. [7]
The friends of the old order of affairs now raised their voices more and more loudly, and many a friend of liberty, who saw his family sickening, joined the Spanish sympathizers and demanded the surrender of the city. [10]
Ferrol consulted with the officers, advising a truce and parley, offering himself as mediator to induce Nic to surrender. [11]
The surrender of the murderer of Caesar--his name was Turullius--proves it. [10]
But to keep the house without a vast fortune to sustain it was an impossibility, and, as it was the most conspicuous of Mavick's visible possessions, perhaps the surrender of it, which she could not prevent, would save certain odds and ends here and there. [4]
The devotees of the higher education will perhaps need to approach the subject from another point of view--namely, what they are willing to surrender in order to come into a distinctly scholastic influence. [4]
The fate of the great god of the heathen was sealed, but in the wide precincts of the Serapeum no one thought of surrender or of prompt defeat. [10]
By reason of the foul weather the pirate could not board Smith, and his master, mate, and pilot, Chambers, Minter, and Digby, importuned him to surrender, and that he should send a boat to the pirate, as Fry had no boat. [4]
The Settlers had the advantage of position, but they were sometimes overpowered by numbers, and would often have had to surrender but for the ringing of the school-bell. [4]
He has heard that you are fair, and he is about to demand of the high-priest that he should surrender you to him. [10]
She was determined that the victory, when it came, should be Austen's, and the surrender Hilary's. [9]
The unions say that capital has rights, bargain with it, but for us there can be only one bargain, complete surrender of the tools to the workers. [9]
His unwillingness to surrender in a lost cause would cost him more than one fortune in the years to come. [5]
The Earl of Suffolk was hemmed in and surrounded, and the Duke d'Alencon and the Bastard of Orleans demanded that he surrender himself. [5]
His complete surrender seemed now more certain to the public because the lady had a fortune of two hundred thousand dollars, and that amount of money would be useful to an ambitious man in the growing West. [11]
But he had scarcely perceived what threatened him, and remembered her words concerning his famous uncle's surrender only to her and to death, when he succeeded in conquering his quickly kindled senses. [10]
He could not say whether this woman whom he had seized by force before had shown alike vitality in her surrender. [9]
If, for the sake of those to whom he owed his best possession, he must surrender the rest, it was his duty to bear fate patiently. [10]
One of the richest among the Athenian exiles, he had twice bought the possessions of Pisistratus from the state, and twice been obliged to surrender them, on the tyrant's return to power. [10]
Some of the results of this surrender of personal liberty are as illegal as illogical. [4]
She did not resist her desire for Ditmar because she believed, in the orthodox sense, that it was wrong, but because it involved a loss of self-respect, a surrender of the personality from the very contemplation of which she shrank. [9]
She wished to remain undisturbed; but the world, with rude yet beneficent hand, interrupted even her surrender to her grief for her mother. [10]
He could distinctly recollect the first and second installations and death of President Washington, the surrender of Cornwallis, the battles of Trenton and Monmouth, and Bunker Hill, the proclamation of the Declaration of Independence, and Braddock's defeat. [5]
He could but perform this duty or surrender the existence of the government. [7]
Once Virginia glanced out, and catching sight of the bedraggled flags on the houses in honor of Lee's surrender, a look of pain crossed her face. [9]
Terry was as one in an awful dream battling with vague impersonal powers which slowly strangled his life, yet held him back in torture from the final surrender. [11]
By winding-roads--which were often cut to so great a depth between perpendicular walls that they were mere roofless tunnels--we drove out a mile or two and visited the monument which stands upon the scene of the surrender of Vicksburg to General Grant by General Pemberton. [5]
The mighty scourge of war did speedily pass away, for it was given him to witness the surrender of the Rebel army and the fall of their capital, and the starry flag that he loved waving in triumph over the national soil. [7]
The mere statement of this surrender of one's judgment of what shall be his intellectual life is alarming. [4]
When the extent of the Bigler swindle was disclosed there was no more hope that Mr. Bolton could extricate himself, and he had, as an honest man, no resource except to surrender all his property for the benefit of his creditors. [5]
The Professor was obliged to surrender, and surmount a difficulty which he could not philosophize out of his mind. [4]
She had already noted the deep precipice to the edge of which she now fled, fully resolved to fling herself over into the depths below, rather than to surrender herself prisoner. [10]
But he could not, he dared not, remind her of the principal reason for this,--Lee's surrender and the approaching end of the war. [9]
If they will not do this--if they prefer to hazard all for the sake of destroying the government--it is for them to consider whether it is probable I will surrender the government to save them from losing all. [7]
Bringing the official news of Burgoyne's surrender, which was to cause King Louis to acknowledge the independence of the United States, the Ranger arrived at Nantes, December 2. [9]
You will but need to deliver this news there and receive the surrender. [5]
But he was nearly as proud and particular as his brother of Suffolk as to whom he would surrender to. [5]
I must speak my mind, and I will say now that it has changed in this matter of fighting and surrender. [11]
A few days more brought the surrender of Lee's army, and peace was assured. [7]
Neither do they mention any demand made by Grant upon Pemberton for a surrender. [7]
In order to meet Jones's requirements I had to surrender the old contract (a contract which made me boss of the situation and gave me the whip-hand of Paige) and allow the new one to be drafted and put in its place. [5]
Admit them; we'll make surrender easy, and the matter is over. [11]
Then the captive Lieutenant-Governor was sent to Major Peirson at the head of his troops on the Mont es Pendus, with counsel to surrender. [11]
Her lithe figure lay passively against him, in marvellous, unbelievable surrender. [9]
I changed her language purposely, for she was Commander-in-Chief and entitled to call herself so, and it was becoming and proper, too; and who was going to surrender anything to the King?--at that time a stick, a cipher? [5]
The brave men knew that the surrender of the city might put an end to their distress, but wished to hold out for the sake of liberty and their religion, and endured their suffering as an inevitable misfortune. [10]
But with all its injustice, with all its surrender of personal liberty, it seeks to call the attention of the world to certain hideous wrongs, to which the world is likely to continue selfishly indifferent unless rudely shaken out of its sense of security. [4]
To be sure, it was Mr. Mease, the purser, instead of Richard Carvel, who so bravely fought the quarter-deck guns; and in reality Midshipman Mayrant, Commodore Jones's aide, was wounded by a pike in the thigh after the surrender. [9]
Shall he surrender it to the judge, or shall he destroy it. [10]
On the contrary, it is itself the surrender of the government. [7]
Now that it is necessary to stake everything or surrender, the grandson of Herakles will again display his former heroic power. [10]
She had not intended to surrender. [9]
I do not intend to surrender in the midst of the summer campaign, yet I cannot but think how much more peaceful my relations would now be with the primal forces, if I had, let Nature make the garden according to her own notion. [4]
He was then informed that he was to be held in captivity by the special orders of the head of the police, till his son Alexander, who was guilty of high-treason, should surrender to the authorities. [10]
King had an impulse to offer to change seats with him; but no, he would not surrender in the face of the enemy. [4]
I shall master her--the full surrender, and then--life will be easy then. [11]
I won't surrender here; it's too cowardly. [11]
He had possessed her, and the memory of the wild joy of that possession, of that surrender to great strength, refused to perish. [9]
The soldiers were halted a little distance from the two; and the officer commanding, after a dull mechanical preamble, in the name of the Government, formally called upon Valmond and Lagroin to surrender themselves, or suffer the perils of resistance. [11]
What secret influence had he over her that made her submit to such a foolish surrender? [4]
She will not get out, she will not surrender her ticket, nor pay her fare again. [4]
She said those gentle words and wept those compassionate tears although one of those perishing men had grossly insulted her with a coarse name three days before, when she had sent him a message asking him to surrender. [5]
What I cannot do, of course, I will not do; but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed. [7]
Even as he did it two men sprang out from among the rocks, seized the horses' heads, and a dozen others swarmed round, all masked and armed, and calling upon the King's party to surrender, and to deliver up their valuables. [11]
Her commander had destroyed his despatches, and nothing remained now but to be sunk or surrender. [11]
Before Rostov had decided what to do with him, the officer cried, "I surrender! [2]
On the third day after Kutuzov's report a country gentleman arrived from Moscow, and news of the surrender of Moscow to the French spread through the whole town. [2]
But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it. [7]
The others who could do so drove away too, leaving those who could not to surrender or die. [2]
The journal is considered "mean" if it will not surrender its columns freely to notices and announcements of this sort. [4]
His companions drew close to him, prepared to sell their lives dearly, but Perrot called to them to surrender. [11]
Whenever he swung clear of the record and began to create history, the enemy was helpless and had to surrender. [5]
It was not certain, however, that the surrender was complete, because O'Ryan had been wounded before, and yet had not been taken captive altogether. [11]
This being the case, the question of improvements is verging to a final crisis; and the friends of this policy must now battle, and battle manfully, or surrender all. [7]
By surrender at Bronkhorst, the whole British force disappeared from the theater of war; this was the case with Jameson's force. [5]
But that capitulation being signed, and notice of it sent to the British troops, with orders to surrender and bring their arms to the Cohue Royale, it was not cordially received by the officers in command. [11]
I have just been turning about, with my head full of Spenser and Shakespeare and "Gil Blas," looking for something in our own present day literature to which I could surrender myself as to those five gripping old writings. [5]
It was this beautiful surrender of self for the public weal, that had made the Persians great. [10]
Swayed she could be, but she would mot easily surrender. [9]

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