O'er scenes of joy that I but leave, As the bird quits awhile its nest To come again with livelier zest.
Raptured hequits each dozing sage, Oh woman, for thy lovelier page: Sweet book!
For her, for her he quits the skies, "And to her kiss from nectar flies.
It is a glorious thing to see the face of a brave and just person at the moment when he or she voluntarily quits this world for some sacred cause.
They are bound to fear death who believe that when manquits this life he finds immobility in eternity.
XXI He quits the fashionable throng And meditative homeward goes, Visions, now sad, now grateful, long Do agitate his late repose.
Unnumber'd foes, far different arms that wield, Wait the weak moment when she quits her shield, To plunge in her bold breast the insidious dart, Or pour keen poison round her thoughtless heart.
The baffled tyrant quits the desperate cause; From Hesper's heat the river swells and thaws, The fleet rolls gently to the Jersey coast, And morning splendors greet the landing host.
And how unfortunately has she sympathised in my sentiments, that he alone seemed worthy to replace the first and best protector she must relinquish when she quits this house!
Soon after the young Mysis casts the Nauplius-envelope it quits the brood-pouch of the mother.
At this point, when the union has been dissolved a little before the change of skin, there is a foliaceous appendage, which exists only for a short time, and disappears before the young Slater quits the brood-pouch of the mother.
A dying man will sometimes pull a six-shooter with the last flicker of his failing strength, and snatch a vengeance as he quits the earth.
When the man dies, the long soulquits his body and appears to his relations at a distance, who thus obtain the first intimation of his decease.
Like most savages, the Fijians believed that man is animated by a soul which quits his body temporarily in sleep and permanently at death, to survive for a longer or a shorter time in a disembodied state thereafter.
At that moment, so the people think, the soul of the dead quits the hut.
She is very feeble, never quits her room, and passes most of the day in, or upon, the bed.
The bee quits its city, in the knowledge that the manna is ready for it and its little ones.
That's some goat getteh, too, an' lots of people quits it; but I notice they always comes back.
The Colonel was in a better humour and was offering to give the chinless boy a stroke and play him double or quits on the last hole--sure proof that he had him badly licked.
Nobody ever quits unless they get so old they can't walk!
Thus it lives until the winter is passed, when it quits the towns and villages for its favourite mountain or native haunts.
Which I shorely quits you cold if it's a girl; says Billy.
Wherefore I quits 'em cold, an' any gent who wants my chance with females can shorely have the same.
But they's too noomerous for us, an' we done quits 'em at last an' lets it go.
I reckons eight people he has interested shoots all at once, an' Crawfish Jim quits this earthly deal unanimous.
Me an' the girl sets up awhile, an' then I quits her an' turns in.
Then, when she's thar for good, I reckons she nacherally quits comin' over.
Even the coyotes cashes in an' quits their howls whenever the Deef Woman drug her chair up to that piano an' throws loose.
Then they quits speakin', an when they meets on the street they concocts snoots at each other.
Ten thousand a year in the funds, and I'll cry quits with you, Raphael!
But I should like us to be quits for such a momentous service; that is, if you are not laughing at an unlucky wretch, so I wish that you may fall in love with an opera-dancer.
Nevertheless, this Salt becomes in time a true Vitriolated Tartar, because the sulphureous part which weakened its Acid easily quits it and flies off.
Here this very Acid combined with Mercury, and applied in a dry form to the Regulus of Antimony, quits the Mercury with which it was united, in order to join this very Regulus, as having a greater affinity therewith.
The first is, that the Vitriolic Acid hath a greater affinity with the Phlogiston than with any other thing, seeing it quits metallic and earthy substances, as well as Alkaline salts, in order to combine therewith.
The Acid of aluminous or vitriolic Salts quits the earth or the metal with which it was combined, and expelling the Acid of Sea-salt unites with its basis.
The Vitriolic Acid quits the Mercury with which it is combined, to unite with the basis of the Sea-salt; and the Acid of this Salt being expelled by the Vitriolic, combines with the Mercury, and consequently forms our Corrosive Sublimate.
Part of this Acid, which is very highly concentrated, quits the metallic substance with which it is but superficially combined, in order to unite with the Spirit of Wine.
But when this acid is united with a basis, it quits it rapidly as soon as it touches a burning coal, and rushes violently into an union with the phlogiston thereof.
How happy she who, shunning shades like these, Finds in a wolf-den greater peace and ease; Who quits the place whence truth did earlier fly, And rather than come back prefers to die!
To her desolate shore--where the emigrant stands For a moment to gaze ere he flies from his hearth; Tears fall on his chain, though it drops from his hands, For the dungeon he quits is the place of his birth.
The falling gauntlet quits the rein, Down drops the casque of steel, The cuirass leaves his shrinking side, The spur his gory heel.
His pride is in his word, and supposing he's in love, it's with his pride, which never quits him.
There won't be the ghost of a bank-note for me if Russett quits the field; we shall all be stranded.
When he quits his raft, and is seen in the water, Neptune dismisses him from view with a parting execration, and Pallas begins to help him, not openly, but indirectly.
The poem henceforth quits the sea, after marking the fate of the sea-faring people of Phæacia.
The King seemed to me less animated than was his wont; but his fine appearance, which never quits him, rendered him sufficiently fit for such a representation and his part in it.
He has already seen this likeness, and at the second look he was taken; and as we have assured him that the young person is well made, he cries quits with her face, and proposes to love her as soon as he gets her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
