If, after such a display of courage and of vigour, you basely relinquish the path of virtue, if you do anything unworthy of yourselves, posterity will sit in judgment on your conduct.
She seems to have been noble by birth, and wealthy, for the proconsul endeavoured to persuade her to relinquish her religion and marry his son.
To this, however, his brother abbots refused their consent, and Gilbert returned to his labours, which he was to relinquish only with his life.
Now, to recognize the right of territorial property is to give up labor, since it is to relinquish the means of labor; it is to traffic in a natural right, and divest ourselves of manhood.
Nothing but necessity would make me relinquish so agreeable a prospect.
Alfred himself was obliged to relinquish the ensigns of his dignity, to dismiss his servants, and to seek shelter, in the meanest disguises, from the pursuit and fury of his enemies.
Affairs were in this situation with Rollo and his followers, when Charles proposed to relinquish to them part of the province formerly called Neustria, and to purchase peace on these hard conditions.
Pippin twice crossed the Alps, and forced Aistolf to relinquish his acquisitions, including Ravenna, Pentapolis, the coast towns of Romagna and some cities in the duchy of Spoleto.
He then requested Charles Albert to take the papal troops under his command, and also wrote to the emperor of Austria asking him voluntarily to relinquish Lombardy and Venetia.
France forced him in 1601 to relinquish Bresse and his Burgundian possessions.
Such arguments prevailed; and he called upon Mr. Hook with a view to relinquish his design.
Ultimately he acquired possession of this periodical, but, having no funds to carry it on, after a few months of heartbreaking labor he had to relinquish it.
Believing it impossible to continue without aid in a profession so expensive as was a military life, he determined to relinquish it and return to his long cherished attempt to become an author.
Weeks have passed, but no trace of her has been discovered, and we relinquish all hope, tie a black ribbon to her basket, set aside her dish, and weep for her as one lost to us forever.
I should have had to return the 5,000 francs I had received, to relinquish the rest, and lose my ticket.
At the same time I am weary of it, and would gladly relinquish all the natural beauties and the climate of this place to be once more in my beloved Moscow.
But supposing I were to relinquish my commission to compose an opera and a ballet.
It was not merely the composition of the Hamlet music which caused him to relinquish these engagements; at this time he was suffering from a nervous affection of the right hand, which made conducting a matter of considerable difficulty.
At first he wished to be a virtuoso, but his teachers persuaded him to relinquish the idea, because his hands were not suited to the piano, and they laid more stress on his talent for composing.
I cannot relinquishmy claim to a visit from you this winter.
I wish to Heaven mine did; and, by Saint Patrick, if I only played the knight-errant half as gallantly as yourself, I would not relinquish my claims to the Secretary at War himself.
The carriage disappeared beneath the crest of the mountain, and the pursuers halted as if disposed to relinquish the chase.
Nor if any took him by the hand to salute him was he the first to relinquishhis grasp.
It is inconvenient to relinquish the watch night or day during the period of siege in Medina, therefore he institutes a system whereby half the army is to pray while the other half remains at its post.
The surprisal of a castle in the Alps by the secret march of the Imperialists, could scarcely have determined him to relinquish the possession of Italy, if the inclinations of the people had supported the cause of their tyrant.
If the greatest part of the Christian youth should be deterred by their own scruples, or by those of their parents, from accepting this dangerous mode of instruction, they must, at the same time, relinquish the benefits of a liberal education.
The Saxons, surrounded and outnumbered, were forced to relinquishtheir spoil, and to yield a select band of their tall and robust youth to serve in the Imperial armies.
Exhausted by his various calamities, he offered his enemies at one time to relinquish all the objects for which he had begun the war.
To Catharine, Russia is indebted for the first proposition to enfranchise the serfs, but meeting strong opposition she was obliged to relinquish this idea, which was carried to fruition by her great-grandson, Alexander.
We cannot expect that the great adversary of God and men will relinquish this the strongest hold of his empire on earth, without a mighty struggle.
She could not relinquishher daughter to what seemed to her separation for life.
True to his word, the courtier braved the displeasure of the Duchess of Bedford, in inducing the king to consider the expediency of permitting Adam to relinquish alchemy, and repair his model.
He was too proud of his knowledge to relinquish it without a word.
Then it ran at full gallop in and out among the other animals, the herd became confused and ran hither and thither, and Pelle had to relinquish his pursuit for a time while he gathered them together.
The stronger beverage of English ale had been so long in use that the old folks could not be induced torelinquish it for a foreign herb.
The proprietor, Signor Vendremi, let me have it on the condition that I should relinquish to him two-thirds of the sale of the boxes which were not private property.
One man will continue to drink the same quantity of wine, though the price of every bottle should be raised three shillings, who would yet relinquish the use of wine rather than pay four.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relinquish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
