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• We must have a retreat. (10)
• There was no opportunity for retreat. (10)
• Now there was no retreat for either of them! (10)
• The retreat soon became a disgraceful flight. (19)
• I must be conducted to a safe retreat at once. (18)
• When it had done that, it beat a hasty retreat. (19)
• He laughed in retreat from the serious proposition. (9)
• Two courses were open to him: to fight or retreat. (19)
• Let him retreat himself, if he pretend to be an artist. (8)
• Of the defeat and retreat of Hampton they knew nothing. (19)
• Did they venture upon allusions to the retreat upon Ross? (6)
• I say, this morning I beat a retreat, but apparently she . (10)
• That, and his buried life in the retreat of these two rooms. (8)
• For a moment she looked back wildly to the doors of retreat. (10)
• One begged the word of pardon from Emilia to cover his retreat. (10)
• Yet this stubborn lad, shaking in every limb, would not retreat. (1)
• At last a reinforcement arrived, and the Iroquois beat a retreat. (19)
• For them our religion is a happy retreat; we are glad they have it. (10)
• His, father followed his retreat with an eye of humorous intelligence. (9)
• Shameful as it was to retreat, there was but that course open to them. (10)
• The coffin had not advanced and he smiled to think it could not retreat. (1)
• The hours crumbled slowly, each with a blow at the passages of retreat. (10)
• Bob had found a perfect retreat after his quarter of a century in Ceylon. (8)
• He felt that now, by keeping his gaze averted, he would be able to retreat. (1)
• Not until four horses had been shot dead beneath him did he order a retreat. (19)
• Those who did not follow his example of retreat were compelled to surrender. (19)
• With which he effected a retreat, to avoid a ringing laugh he heard in his ears. (10)
• The little model had moved out of her retreat, and stood between him and the door. (8)
• He was too brave to retreat before the word, and my uncivil words had disarmed him. (1)
• But he had burned his ships, blown up his bridges; retreat could not be thought of. (10)
• He set out at once upon a retreat to Detroit, and there was quickly followed by Brock. (19)
• Richard came forward and capitulated honourably, since retreat was out of the question. (10)
• When the storm was over, he left his retreat and went down the wet path to the river bank. (8)
• The widow had spoken wisely; it would be foolish to retreat now, to hide himself in the city. (13)
• He was careful to retreat before the conclusion of the service; somewhat chagrined by his success. (10)
• He was wont to retreat within himself, but it was to reflect on what he saw in the world about him. (14)
• The Countess had recovered from certain spiritual languors into which she had fallen after her retreat. (10)
• The French fleet turned its guns upon him from the sea; retreat was cut off, and Cornwallis surrendered. (19)
• In this retreat, which contained a rustic bench, Nedda was accustomed to sit and read; she went there now. (8)
• Doubtless, she was making a retreat, but have not illustrious Generals snatched victory from their pursuers? (10)
• She sprang before Aminta to stop her retreat, and stamped and gibbed, for sign that she would not be driven. (10)
• When he asked the advice of the council of war he found, to his chagrin, that all his officers voted for retreat. (19)
• When the clash came between the two, as it was likely to come before long, the mother would be the one to retreat. (13)
• It is not until she receives from the management positive assurance of a cash advance that she can be persuaded to retreat. (21)
• At the first volley a half of the questioning line will fall, the other half before it can accomplish the predestined retreat. (1)
• The Countess was quite aware of the efficacy of a little bit of burlesque lying to cover her retreat from any petty exposure. (10)
• Early in my military experience I used to ask myself how it was that brave troops could retreat while still their courage was high. (7)
• If her mother came before the Captain, his arrival would cover the retreat; if the Captain preceded her, she would not be noticed. (10)
• But the stone buildings, the cannon and muskets in the hands of the determined Frenchmen {43} daunted them and they beat a retreat. (19)
• The battle was fierce and continuous, the enemy extending his lines farther and farther around our right, toward our line of retreat. (7)
• There was no general retreat; at many points the fight continued, with lessening ferocity and lengthening range, well into the night. (7)
• The enemy watched the retreat of the defeated garrison not without admiration, and for the moment speculation was rife as to their fate. (19)
• Margaret made some entreating paces after them, but she did not succeed in covering the retreat of the sisters against critical conjecture. (9)
• A rumour had spread that a mighty army of Hurons were descending upon them, and they resolved, in spite of their chiefs, to retreat at once. (19)
• The numbers of people pressing on to the scene of action soon blocked up our retreat, and we found ourselves most unwilling spectators of the conflict. (6)
• Romara mounted a stiff barricade and beheld a scattered regiment running the gauntlet of storms of shot and missiles, in full retreat upon the citadel. (10)
• Juliana, which fully determined her to continue the campaign at Beckley Court, commence decisive movements, and not to retreat, though fifty George Uplofts menaced her. (10)

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