If things are not quite to his taste, he says that he will go into retirement, and abandon everything.
Otherwise the land would be lost if the encomenderos should abandon it, which would without doubt come to pass if they could not be supported therefrom.
And the friars say the same thing--namely, that they will abandon their doctrinas [i.
Further along we had to abandon one of our pack horses which had come all the way from the northern border of Urianhai with us.
As neither side could persuade the other to abandon its ideas, our company was divided and the next day at noon we took leave of one another.
Colonel Peter Schuyler was stationed there with his regiment in 1747, but was forced to abandon his post for want of supplies.
The settlers saw no choice but to abandon a place which they were too few to defend, and accordingly withdrew to the older settlements, after burying such of their effects as would bear it, and leaving others to their fate.
The men, however, were so terrified by the adventure that Saint-Pierre was compelled to abandon the fort, after recommending it to the care of another band of Assiniboins, who had professed great friendship.
Spirito Santo, where Calderan was, with order, that they should abandon the port, and all of them come to Apalache.
Abandon life and the world, that you may behold the Life of the world.
That a proposal to abandon it, at this moment, would have a very bad effect on our relations with France, does not, I think, admit of a doubt.
Sir Richard Glyn, who visited the hill after we had been compelled toabandon it, and who returned to England before us, reported that our house was the strongest building of the kind he had ever seen.
Should it be decided on toabandon a well, the tubes can be drawn up and driven elsewhere.
Books can be of very little service to him on a journey, and he had better at once abandon all ideas of encumbering himself with them.
Morse hated toabandon his cherished dream of government ownership, and, while carrying on negotiations with private parties in order to protect himself, he still hoped that Congress would at last see the light.
If it had not been for occasional bits of encouragement from different quarters the inventor would probably have yielded to the temptation to abandon all and depend on his brush again for a living.
Morse still kept hoping that the Government would eventually purchase all the rights, and it was not until well into 1845 that he was compelled to abandon this dream.
He had staked his all and lost, and he was resolved toabandon all further efforts to press his invention on an unfeeling and a thankless world.
My only means of support are in my profession, which I have been compelled to abandon entirely for the present, giving my undivided time and efforts to this enterprise.
Yet could she abandon her mother, whom she had been taught as her first and highest duty to guard and revere?
Her continued increase as a medium so worked upon her that she lost her health, and she was compelled for the time being to abandon the business.
But as this theme is scientific, and not directly in the line of or pertinent to my narrative, I will abandon it, at least for the present.
Soon after we got there the band concluded to abandon for the time being any further attempt to perfect the phase of materialization and demanded a tin trumpet, which was made according to their directions.
He began now to treat his prisoners with greater kindness, and on the first opportunity sent for them, and, exacting a simple oath that they would abandon piracy, shipped them on board the galleon fleet bound for Spain.
Some of these were mere slaves, others were voluntary concubines, but the greater part had been compelled, by poverty and fear, to abandon their fathers and husbands.
On no account and for no reason must you be persuaded to abandon that post.
After a short council of war it was decided to abandon Fort Carlton.
The crocuses with reckless abandon had sprung forth at the first warm kiss of the summer sun and stood bravely, gaily dancing in their purple and gray, till whole hillsides blushed for them.
Heine, whom he consulted in his difficulties, advised him to abandon further efforts in writing for the stage.
We tend to abandon specific words like resemble and substitute, for them, vague verbs with prepositional directors, or riders.
Chinese poetry demands that we abandon our narrow grammatical categories, that we follow the original text with a wealth of concrete verbs.
He was very sensible of this, and said to Maintenon, "Madame is the only one who does not abandon me.
Yet the opinion often expressed by pamphleteers, that the war of 1803 was undertaken to compel France to abandon her republican principles, is devoid of a shred of evidence in its favour.
Did his past power in Italy and Egypt warrant the belief that he would abandon the peninsula and the new colony?
In the winter, the whole city appears to abandon herself to cooking for the public, till she threatens to hopelessly disorder the law of demand and supply.
For some time, at any rate, you must abandon the idea of exciting the envy of your friends by exhibiting your Christian captive to them.
Were it otherwise there could be no commanderies in this or any other country; we should have, on entering the Order, to abandon our nationality, and to form part of one community in the East.
If she would study the inside she mustabandon the outside--she must abandon the microscope and take to introspection.
We must abandon the methods of science and reach it, if at all, in some other way.
