For some moments, Dolores remained motionless on the spot where she had just renouncedher last hope of earthly happiness.
Major Dick still shot and fished, as was his right, over the lands and waters that were still in his name, but the tenants, whose fathers had loved him, had renounced the old allegiance.
I could teach thee, but I ought first to ask thee how many of this world's lusts thou hast renounced for God.
After thou hast told me that, then I can say to thee without any doubt that thou hast obtained so many of the anchors as thou hast renounced the lusts of the world.
The Thasians renounced the confederacy, and thus gave to the Athenians the very pretext for hostilities which the weaker state should never permit to the more strong.
Terrified by this dexterous manoeuvre, as well as by the success of the Persians, the Egyptians renounced all further resistance; and the Athenians were deprived at once of their vessels and their allies.
Delphi formally renounced the Phocian league, declared itself an independent state, and even defined the boundaries between its own and the Phocian domains.
The two queens, rendered desperate by finding in the two princes such virtue as should have made them look inwardly on themselves, renounced all sentiments of nature and of mothers and conspired together to destroy them.
A man who, like me, has been a pilgrimage four times to Mecca, has renounced wine for ever.
You command me to preserve myself; I will obey you, since I have renounced my own will to follow only yours.
Though they couldn't define it for themselves, it was as if she had renounced any further effort to make life fulfill itself.
She knew it by the way he stared at the hydrangea bush, or by the fact that he had renounced his search for another job so early in the afternoon.
You should return thanks to all the blessed Saints, that she has willingly renounced that influence about your person, which could tend only to endanger the salvation of your soul.
But he never renounced his allegiance to Lodovico, and sent him and Beatrice his most hearty congratulations when the Moro became Duke of Milan.
Cæsar Borgia, who had renounced his cardinal's hat and was seeking the hand of the King of Navarre's daughter.
Novara was restored to Lodovico, and his title to Genoa and Savona recognized, while Charles renounced the support of his cousin Louis of Orleans' claims upon Milan.
It is enough to say that it would embrace England, whose government our fathers renounced in order to build a republic.
He was admitted, and saw the creature for whose sake the wild huntsman had renounced his merry life in the forest, and heaven itself.
I was the first Ferber from time immemorial who had renounced their service.
A Greek or a Roman, and no less an Egyptian or an Assyrian, an Indian or a Chinese, must have renounced every habit of his life, every principle in which he had been nurtured, to accept such a divorce.
From the day when she renounced of her free will the Ionian Islands; a Power which ceases to take and begins to surrender is a used-up Power.
On the eager calls of her helpless, infirm mother to forbear, she renounced her first object, and, with loud shrieks, approached her parent.
Those who had been the Captain's friends--for he had renounced all his Filipino friends from the moment that they were suspected by the Government--had also returned to their homes after some days of vacation spent in the Government buildings.
Our happiness disappeared: I renounced our fortune; my sister lost her lover; and with our father we abandoned the town to go to some other point.
The practice was condemned by Mr Arbuthnot, and was discontinued by order of the Foreign Office in 1864, on the initiative of the Prussian Government, whose agent in Japan had voluntarily renounced the privilege.
As he declined in strength, Rob Roy became more peaceable in disposition; and his nephew, the head of the clan, renounced the enmity which had subsisted between the Macgregors and the Duke of Montrose.
To fortify their idealism, to set an example to others, these heroic figures renounced the chance of publicity, circulation, and remuneration for their writings; they renounced the holy trinity of the literary faith.
He left the theater, he renounced the professorial chair, he retired from the world.
If the adversaries of Jesus were not righteous, they were sinners, whom he was come to call to repentance; consequently he ought not to have renounced them.
Prophets and priests pretended to reign over kings, of whom such as were not sufficiently submissive to the interpreters of heaven, were renounced by the Lord, and, from that moment, unacknowledged and opposed by their own subjects.
Without renouncing Christianity, which they always regarded as a divine religion, they renounced Romish Christianity, which they considered a superstition corrupted through the avarice, influence, and passions of the clergy.
As this gentleman had probably renounced altogether the pleasures of a good reputation, it was not easy to cause him any annoyance; Aretino tried to do so by comparing his personal appearance to that of a constable, a miller, and a baker.
Indeed, the persecution was less remarkable for the sufferings of the Christians than for the numbers who failed in their courage, and renounced Christianity under the threats of the magistrate.
And in addition to this the state, for whose sake individuals renounced their personal advantages, is exposed again to the same risks of insecurity and lack of permanence as the individual himself was in previous times.
The greater fishes who broke the net are the rulers, emperors, popes, kings, who have not renounced power, and instead of true Christianity have put on what is simply a mask of it.
Though it strikes me that you have rather renounced the right to criticise me.
Her father said he would see for her, and on this she explicitly renounced her ambition of going up.
He yielded; and for a couple of country houses and two life-annuities the crown of Spain and the Indies was renounced in favour of Napoleon by father and son.
I have not renounced her," said I, impatiently; "I did but restore her freedom of choice.
