But if he would depart and resign to him the free possession of Gaul, he would recompense him with a great reward, and would bring to a close whatever wars he wished to be carried on, without any trouble or risk to him.
But the drudgery and mean hardships of the place, and the depression of being separated from her family, broke down her health; and after much opposition she was allowed to resign in 1791.
CLARE'S eyes seem to fly from him, to appeal to him, to resign herself all at once.
Your chance of the Cabinet will go--you may even have to resign your seat.
I don't care so much about the men, but I'd sooner resign my position on the Board than go on starving women in this way.
Well, I shall tell people that you and Lord St Erth backed me up for one Club, and asked me to resign from another.
I have no wish to be associated further with you or your fellows; but you are vastly mistaken if you imagine that I shall resign my position on the Bench or the Town Council.
The founders of the Revolution did not resign themselves to the facts of human nature.
We must resign ourselves to losing a little in exactitude in order to gain in lucidity.
Credit me, dear Halbert, say the Pater and Credo, resignthyself to the protection of God, and thou wilt sleep sound and wake in comfort.
I to the elements Resign the principles of life they lent me.
May the new Abbot-expectant sleep as sound as he who is about to resign his mitre.
He had fully made up his mind that to let Viola hold to her troth would neither be right nor good for her, and he used his power of will and influence to make her resign it.
Eustace looked about for someone to whom to resign the reins, but in vain, and we all had to set off, my housewifely mind regretting that time and Eustace had combined to make the luncheon a hot instead of a cold one.
Rather than keep Viola in the wearing state of resistance and disobedience her mother described, he would resign all hopes of her.
He made her at last resign her will into his, she only feeling that his judgment could not be other than decisive, and that she could not resist him, even for his own sake.
On May 5th he wrote to Lord Northbrook (First Lord of the Admiralty) and to Mr Gladstone to resign his post of Astronomer Royal.
The borderer disdained to resign his enterprise, even in these desperate circumstances; and at once forming his resolution, spurred his horse over the parapet.
I wish that you were already nearer to us, and cannot resign the hope that we shall yet enjoy the happiness of having you as our neighbours.
There was a better course open before them, and they followed it: to resign themselves to the will of a God they believed in and for whom they suffered, and wait patiently for the day of deliverance.
Indeed it appears that in old days he had to resign the seals, or rather the pails, of office whenever any member of his clan departed this life.
If I loved her tenfold more than I do, and Heaven knows to love her any better than I do mortal man cannot, still I would resign her.
At this time Major-general Greene had the command on Long Island, but his health was so bad that it became necessary for him to resign it.
I was enabled to resign the child (after a severe struggle with nature) with the greatest freedom.
I am endeavouring to resign myself with cheerfulness; and you also, my husband, must summon up your fortitude to bear with a sick wife the rest of her life.
With extreme reluctance, madame, I am constrained to resign to Dr.
Sir, The reasons I did myself the honour to mention to your excellency in a letter of September last still exist, and determine me to resign my rank and command in the army.
They breakfasted with us, for we are obliged to take separate lodgings, and my husband has now gone to the races with them; a party of pleasure I was very willing to resign for you and repose.
Officers of every rank who wish to resign their commissions are competent to do so.
Then I'll resign and marry Pate, And syne my cockernony-- This is surely far unworthy of Ramsay, or your book.
My late transient acquaintance among some of the mere rank and file of greatness, I resign with ease; but to the distinguished champions of genius and learning, I shall be ever ambitious of being known.
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission; for I would not take in any poor, ignorant wretch by selling out.
Can it be possible, that when I resign this frail, feverish being, I shall still find myself in conscious existence?
Can it be possible that when I resign this frail, feverish being I shall still find myself in conscious existence?
An attack of sickness, which impaired both his sight and hearing, forced him to resign in August, 1780.
We speak the sentiment of our people when we express unfeigned regret that he felt it his duty to resign his office.
On another occasion we find him conjuring his friend Bishop Pearce, of Rochester, not to resign the deanery of Westminster.
In another passage he plaintively enumerates the various preferments he had to resign on taking the bishopric of Bristol.
I was in hopes I had escaped the danger, and now were I prepared I should resign on the spot, as it requires no foresight to predict such must be the inevitable result in the end.
Gully desired to return with me, and it was necessary to obtain permission for him to resign before he could do so.
He asked me to resign my claims in his favor, which I did, though it caused a struggle in my mind to do so, for I loved her dearly.
The old men were requested toresign and younger men were appointed in their places.
A bishop could resignonly by his permission, and sees vacated by resignation lapsed to him.
The Mussulmen are those who submissively resign themselves to the will of God.
The Republican legislature, after investigating the election and upon receiving from Peabody a written promise that he would resign in twenty-four hours, declared on the 16th of March that Peabody was elected.
The Marquis D'Araciel, his friend and patron, who resides there, divides and disputes his heart with me: I shall be loth to resign it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "resign" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
