He gave up the homage of the greater Welsh magnates, and resigned all his former conquests.
Earlier in the year the king had quarrelled with Archbishop Stratford, who resigned the chancellorship.
I am now resigned to death," the prelate was saying to Jeronimo, "yet I confess, I feel my heart fail me at the thought of leaving my wife and children without protection in days as dark as these are.
Resigned beforehand to all sorts of jests and humiliations, she had not foreseen such an excess of indignity.
Elizabeth, weary of struggling, resigned herself to her defeat.
That was when the baby died, and she had resigned herself to what she believed to be Divine Providence.
I took an enormous pinch, and resigned myself to the necessity of inhaling it with all my force.
For the first few days Wilberforce stood so low that his professional adviser stated that “the sooner he resigned the better.
The commander of the vessels were all formerly officers of the United States Navy, who were citizens of the Southern States and had resigned their commissions in the Federal service when their States seceded from the Union.
Tucker resigned his commission as rear-admiral in the Navy of the Republic, and was immediately appointed President of the Peruvian Hydrographical Commission of the Amazon.
This Prince resigned in 1866, and as a Count of Flanders, younger brother of the King of the Belgians, declined the invitation to succeed him, Prince Charles of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen accepted it as Carol I.
Bollman and Company Bollman resignedfrom the Baltimore and Ohio in 1858 to form, with John H.
Then there was the evidence of the woman to whom he had resigned his state-room on the boat, and of various other passengers who had noted his restlessness and his misery.
John Jay was Minister to Great Britain and Governor of New York after he resigned the Chief-Justiceship; and Oliver Ellsworth was Minister to France after his retirement from the Bench.
He commanded an Ohio regiment for two years in the field andresigned to accept a position on the bench of the Supreme Court.
The Attorney-General, Henry Stanbery, had from an impulse of chivalric devotion resignedhis post for the purpose of defending his chief.
With this avowal they were masters of the situation so far as the Democracy was concerned, and the Democratic sentiment, which at first shrank from Greeley, soon became resigned to his candidacy.
Mr. Stanton promptly resigned his post when the Impeachment failed and returned to private life and to the practice of his profession.
He resigned at the close of his second term to accept the governorship of his State, and midway in his third term he was promoted to the Vice-Presidency.
Simon Cameron from Pennsylvania resigned his seat in the spring of 1877.
Mr. Dudley was a clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington, and being refused a leave of absence for two days to attend the convention, he promptly resigned his place and joined his brethren at Pittsburg.
He had just entered upon his ninth term as representative in Congress from Illinois, and resigned immediately after swearing in Mr. Blaine as Speaker,--a duty assigned to him as the oldest member of the House in consecutive service.
It is the harmonious utterance of a many-sided sadness which has become identified with even the pleasures of the man's life; and is hopeless, because he is resigned to it.
He seems to have resigned her without farther protest.
Mrs. Balfame sat back in her chair with the resigned air of the victim who expects an interview with inquisitive newspaper men to last all night.
Reluctantly, for she was a prompt and methodical woman, she resigned herself to the prospect of David Balfame's prolonged sojourn upon the planet he had graced so ill.
Governor Crittenden resigned on the 31st of July to become Attorney-General of the United States and John L.
Next year, Chancellor Kent resignedhis office and was re-elected to his former chair.
Having thus served both Great Britain and Zanzibar, Kirk resigned his post (July 1887), retiring from the consular service.
Porto and Santa Rufina; he resigned his archbishopric and left England, carrying with him the registers and other valuable property belonging to the see of Canterbury.
In 1869 he resigned his post in the public service, and for some little while was in business with his brothers.
For a short time he was a clerk in the Bank of Bengal, but resigned his post to devote himself exclusively to literature and philosophy.
Three years after this celebration Lord Kelvin resigned his chair at Glasgow, though by formally matriculating as a student he maintained his connexion with the university, of which in 1904 he was elected chancellor.
In 1835 he resigned because he was obliged to share the honour of winning the academy's grand prize with Vorosmarty.
He resigned his seat in the Convention on the 20th of January.
After returning to England in 1792, he obtained a situation in the post-office, but this he soon resigned for the stage, making his first recorded appearance at Sheffield as Orlando in As You Like It in that year.
It was a small thing; but if it did nothing else it would procure him a modified fame in the school and the masters' room, and Mark Ashburn had never feltresigned to be a nonentity anywhere.
Well, if you like to run about like a little wild child,' was the resigned answer.
He was still holding the hands she had resigned to him, hardly daring as yet to believe in this realisation of his dearest hopes, when someone stepped quickly in through the light curtains.
Dear sister, be resigned then, Nor let your faith grow dim, He cannot come to you again, But you can go to him.
These in a philosophically resigned manner accept their ill-luck; discussion they know would be useless, as the muzzles of several long Albanian guns peep ominously from the rocks above.
It was to this pleasant spot that the Emperor Diocletian, himself a native of Salona, retired in the year 305, when, weary of empire, he resigned the imperial purple.
Promptly thereat he had resigned the chairmanship of this committee, thus leaving Magnus at its head.
With a movement of infinite lassitude and resigned acceptance of the situation, Mrs. Hooven put the coin in her pocket.
Presley spread out his hands with a helpless, resigned gesture.
I resigned my situation, however, to make way for some one poorer than myself.
I resigned myself, without an effort, to the most humiliating, the most shameful of positions.
A number of the girls who had sung solos were also selected, and, with one or two disgruntled exceptions, resigned themselves to the lesser glory, gratefully accepting what was offered them.
She had resigned her position the previous June and passed on to other fields.
To the office of schoolmaster, which he held for many years, was added that of Reader to the congregation--a post he resigned in 1584, owing to some action of the consistory which did not meet with his approval.
He despatched his sheriff to the provost-marshal, demanding that the culprit should be resigned to him; but that functionary declined to give up his prisoner.
My Lord Camden, who was living within a cordon of guards away in the Ph[oe]nix Park, had not yet resigned it.
Doreen gave it up, and resigned herself to the consideration of tarts and puddings for the benefit of chawbacons.
She appeared to have resigned herself at last to accept the inevitable, to be too fatigued with the fight for her intellect to be capable of a new impression.
In November of that same year, however, he resigned in order to return to his convent at Salamanca, arriving in Madrid in 1716.
When the latter went to the Marianas, the Jesuits resigned that portion into the hands of the archbishop.
At that time they resigned that district into the hands of the bishop of Camarines, who employed seculars instead of those regulars.
Although assigned as vicar of the convent of San Telmo in Cavite in 1702, he resigned that office in November of that same year, and went to the mission at Ituy.
Accordingly the Recollects only accepted the district of Masbate, and resigned the right that they could have had to the village on the continent of Luzon to the Franciscan fathers, who could administer them with greater ease.
The latter are resigned by that order to the Franciscans, as they can be administered more easily by them, but the islands of Masbate, Ticao, and Burias are accepted by them in 1687.
The Newab, who had been raised to the sovereignty by the voice of the chiefs soon after the first outbreak of the insurrection, had cheerfully resigned the honour that had been thrust upon him, and accepted the office of Wuzeer.
