Alice and Edith hearing this, and Edward also crying out to them, made a hasty retreat to the cottage.
He did not venture to look at Patience, and made a hasty retreat to bed, complaining, as he might well do, of a severe headache.
Jacob, as soon as he had seen the children on their way, returned to the kitchen, where he found Agatha and the cook collecting their property, evidently bent upon a hasty retreat.
The Saracen army, numerous as it was, could not withstand the charge of the mail-clad warriors of Europe; and Saladin was compelled to beat a hasty retreat, leaving behind him seven thousand dead upon the field.
The barons then raised the siege to attack the king, who made a hasty retreat.
It is true Nashville was never given up after its first capture, but it would have been isolated and the garrison there would have been obliged to beat a hasty retreat if the troops in West Tennessee had been compelled to fall back.
Worth's troops entered the Mills by every door, and the enemy beat a hasty retreat back to Chapultepec.
The enemy discovered the movement before these dispositions were complete, and beat a hasty retreat, leaving artillery, wagon trains, and many prisoners in our hands.
The attack was made, the Mexican reserves behind the works beat a hasty retreat, and those occupying them surrendered.
During the night Price beat a hasty retreat, leaving the battery he had taken, all his dead unburied, and many of his sick and wounded.
Stunned by the reception they received, those who had not been killed or wounded beat a hasty retreat.
The place was only held by a small detachment, which beat a hasty retreat, leaving a large quantity of military stores to the jubilant Confederates.
They had fallen in with a small picket force which, after exchanging a few shots, had beat a hasty retreat.
Their battery also limbered up and beat a hasty retreat; and as our men reached the village they were seen lashing their horses into a run, and in a moment they disappeared altogether down the road.
Bleeding and mortally wounded, he then beat a hasty retreat to his marshy den, leaving a long, bloody trail behind him.
He, inspired by her presence, slew all except Gunther and Hagen, who beat a hasty retreat.
The Saracens, terrified at the apparition of the hero, beat a hasty retreat, little suspecting that their foe had received a mortal wound, and would shortly breathe his last.
Once, in the middle of the night, these self-appointed sentinels saw an armed troop draw near; but when they loudly challenged the foremost men, they beat a hasty retreat.
I beg your pardon, I'm sure," he says, beating a hasty retreat back to the landing outside.
There is a sudden, rather undignified, cessation of hostilities on the part of Mr. Luttrell, who beats a hasty retreat to the wall, where he stands as though glad of the support.
This arrangement having been made, Vanslyperken made rather a hasty retreat.
When the corporal's hand touched the lock of the door, Smallbones made a hasty retreat.
Smallbones, whose guilty conscience flew into his pallid face at the mention of the paving-stones, immediately made a hasty retreat; and Vanslyperken turned into his bed and dreamt of vengeance.
They were greeted with a warm reception from the section already at A and beat a hasty retreat.
The pick of the Turkish army released by our withdrawal from Gallipoli, had poured down to reinforce the enemy, and General Townshend had no alternative but to beat a hasty retreat.
He did not venture to look at Patience, and made a hasty retreat to bed; complaining, as he well might do, of a severe headache.
His shells were thrown with fatal accuracy, and the guerrillas, taken completely by surprise, and having no levee to protect them, beat a hasty retreat.
The reply he received was a shot from the pilot's revolver, which made him beat a hasty retreat.
The little fort of Pesh Bolak (half-way between Jellalabad and the Khyber) had had to be evacuated, and Captain Ferris had been seen going over the mountains away to Peshawar in hasty retreat.
I fired a shot, which had the good effect of producing a hasty retreat of our enemies.
The soldiers, who had been watching attentively from a distance the different phases of the interview, considered it prudent to beat a hasty retreat.
The army, which, with its usual prudence, was watching events from a respectful distance, beat a hasty retreat.
For without awaiting the oncoming enemy they all straightway beat a hasty retreat.
For the Persians, led on by many hopes, undertook an expedition against the Romans, and now, with everything lost, they have beaten a hasty retreat.
So the Persians who held the left wing under the leadership of Baresmanas, together with the Immortals, charged on the run upon the Romans opposite them, who failed to withstand the attack and beat a hasty retreat.
I fired a shot in the air, which had the good effect of producing a hasty retreat of our enemies, whoever they were.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hasty retreat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
