I think I know the reason for your relinquishing your Aunt Gertrude's million so lightly.
The same Berthwald, against the will of the king and of the bishop of the diocese, relinquishing Glastonbury, went to govern the monastery of Reculver.
Caroloman, from some unknown cause, relinquishing the world, took his religious vows at Mount Cassin.
The stupor into which he occasionally fell endured until a quick thought would strike through the mental gloom that oppressed him, and relinquishing the farm gate he would moodily resume his walk through the heavy slosh of the wet roads.
Relinquishing another half-hearted expostulation which rose to her lips, Kate commenced to read.
Relinquishing his dreams at this point, Dick listened to the silence.
Trotter asserts that no drunkard was ever reformed by gradually relinquishinghis dram.
All that I contend for is, that from the moment of the relinquishing all unnatural habits no new disease is generated; and that the predisposition to hereditary maladies gradually perishes, for want of its accustomed supply.
Save on your account, my dearest Aylmer," observed his wife, "I might wish to put off this birthmark of mortality by relinquishing mortality itself in preference to any other mode.
It was not to be tolerated that Roderick Elliston should break through the tacit compact by which the world has done its best to secure repose without relinquishing evil.
Blindly they had stumbled into the impassable fire from the south face of our lines and ultimately relinquishing the task had hastened, as I have stated, across our front towards their main body.
Relinquishing the horses to the small stable-lad, the old hostler again looked out from the arch.
He therefore set out in this direction, relinquishing the other track; so that these parts became better known than the other.
He warmly favored the idea, and, relinquishing for the moment all thought of his trials with the priests, he gave his whole attention to the proposals of that bold and self-reliant explorer, the Sieur Robert de la Salle.
Certain conditions, however, seem to be the almost indispensable preliminaries to success in relinquishing opium by those who have been long habituated to its use.
When all were reduced to silence, Lord Marney relinquishing controversy, assumed the positive.
The writer is of opinion, that tea and coffee are a most extensive cause of much of the nervous debility and suffering endured by American women; and that relinquishing such drinks would save an immense amount of such suffering.
He was unwilling to sacrifice his whole life-work, and the protesting Estates had no intention of relinquishing their new rights and privileges.
It is now the proper time for me, to bring to his remembrance all and every thing relating to myself; by relinquishing my figure of Kumbha, and disclosing myself to him in my form of Chudala.
Please sir acquaint me first with the nature of the mind, and then teach me the method of relinquishing it for ever from me.
Dana removed to Hanover, where, relinquishing the practice of medicine, he devoted his whole attention to his favorite studies, to which was now added Botany, upon which he delivered some courses of lectures.
Above all, Jack must have appreciated both her generous intention and her relinquishing of it.
She had said it to him that morning in a few broken sentences before relinquishing the hand she grasped.
It is not merely giving up a good income of her own earning, and as pleasant a home as there is in Boston; it is relinquishing all the independence that she has been striving after, and which she was so anxious to maintain.
Afterwards, Epaminondas himself had been sent at the head of a second army to extricate his captive friend, which he had accomplished, but not withoutrelinquishing Thessaly and leaving Alexander more powerful than ever.
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