Scipio embraced the first moment of apparent peace to resign his command (in the end of 548), and to report at Rome in person the victories which he had achieved and the provinces which he had won.
My brother, known by Báli’s name, Had won by might a conqueror’s fame.
Such words of hope spake Diti’s son, And sought the heaven his deeds had won.
The other was from Hunter, saying that hehad won a commission in the Dorsets.
He had sought power, and he had gained it; he had asked for praise, and he had won it; he had fought, and he had conquered.
Ruddock had once set out with high hopes of reaching the Sixth; his first term hehad won a Divinity prize in the Shell.
But on this day he had discovered that his son and heir had lost more than he had won, and an arrangement had been suggested to him that his winnings should go to pay Percival's losings.
On the Derby Day he had won a large sum of money, which had been to him at the time a matter of intense delight,--for he was in great want of money.
Can a man fooled to utter heart- burning find a reason for being merry> If I have lost, how can I be as if I had won?
The stately "martyrdom" which rose over his relics at Canterbury seemed to embody the triumph which his blood had won.
In each of the little kingdoms which rose on the wreck of Britain, the host camped on the land it had won, and the divisions of the host supplied here as in its older home the rough groundwork of local distribution.
I was determined to bribe him, to cajole him, to defy him; to do anything sooner than abandon the wealth and the position I had won, and go back to my old life.
His fairest hope in the future was the hope of making her happy, and lavishing upon her the pittance which he had won by the force of his own strong arm in the gold-fields of Australia.
I do not think that my lady had thrown away a card, or missed the making of a trick which she might by any possibility have made; but her opponent's hand had been too powerful for her, and he had won.
He stopped at the market and bought three dozen oranges out of a ten-dollar bill he had wonon the election, and almost bought a live rabbit because it looked so dreary in its slatted box.
It seemed to him then that he had fought his last battle and had won it.
Presently came the summing-up of his speech, and it was here that Mr. Bakewell justified the reputation he had won as one of the cleverest of criminal lawyers.
But presently he was led to look at her, to study her features, and as he did so he called to mind the face of the young girl whose heart he had won a quarter of a century before.
A prison van took him from Strangeways Gaol to the station, and thence he went to the town in which, to use the words of one of the morning papers, "he had won an almost unique position.
Disgusted with flattering attentions paid to wealth, he had won him a name and a bride, while his circumstances were unknown.
The vow having been made, the wind ceased to blow; and anchoring in the nearest bay, the Norsemen bade Tristan land, and paid him the sum he had won at chess.
Napoleon, wise enough to secure what he had won, without hazarding its loss, arranged a meeting with the Austrian emperor, whom he found quite as ready for peace.
He had won a great victory in forcing its introduction.
For Buonaparte was poor; he had lost his limited means in the tempests of the revolution, and all that he possessed consisted of the laurels he had won on the battle-field, and his half pay as a brigadier-general.
And do you remember," continued Clarence, "that I told you that it was not as an unknown and obscure adventurer that I would claim the hand of her whose heart as an adventurer I had won?
The father he had served, and the mother he had won.
Queen Selina assured the Prince that he had won a treasure.
His visits to the sacks of gold in the King's Counting-house became more and more frequent, but he would have derived more enjoyment from cards if he had won occasionally.
What if he lost, as Mirliflor, the love that Giroflé had won?
In all my mother's letters I detected a tremulous undertone of sadness, of longing, and this filled me with unrest even in the midst of the personal security I had won.
Closing amid hearty applause, I stepped down with a feeling that I had won a place among the orators of the school, a belief which did no harm to others and gave me a good deal of satisfaction.
The Jack-boot period was over, the shoe, commonplace and comfortable, had won.
Looking at the sky above me, feeling the rush of the earth beneath my feet I saw how much I had dared and how little, how pitifully little I had won.
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