The English sovereigns have persisted in retaining this title to the present time, though for what reason, and with what right, even a royal intellect might be somewhat puzzled to explain.
Hence his severity, hence his castles and forts, by which he made sure of retaining his hold upon whatever he had gained.
But notwithstanding that fact, all English sovereigns insisted on retaining the title of "King of France" down to a late period of the reign of George III.
One day they found him dead at the foot of the altar; he was leaning against it with his head cast back, with his hands clasped, and still retaining his kneeling position.
Northward from the Narrows, a long projecting point of low and fertile land stretches out on the western side, still retaining that air of restful peace which in the eighteenth century secured it the name of Sabbath Day Point.
It was a terraced court, with vine-covered earthen retaining walls supporting each successive tier and terminating against a domed gate flanked on either side by a tall conical cypress.
They crossed the Tyropean Valley and approached a small new house of stone, abutting the vast retaining wall that was built against Moriah.
They clung to it amid sufferings too shocking to dwell on;[9] they clung to it under such a serfhood as made the rapacity of their conquerors interested in retaining them on the soil.
Will they wait till violence and suspicion are the only principles retaining power among them?
If the Prussian Tenure Code be introduced, and the people turned into small proprietors, there is much, perhaps every, hope of retaining our homestead habits; and such a population need fear no enemy.
But if Williams had reckoned on retaining his archbishopric and other emoluments as the price of his treachery, he was mistaken.
The residue, after distillation of the carbon disulphide, is a grayish colored, very viscous oily matter, still retaining a little bisulphide, as may be perceived from the smell.
First, retaining the name of and belief in and worship of Jehovah, mankind added something else.
Natives dying have gone into the other world retaining an acute memory of some wrong inflicted on them by fellow-villagers, and have openly said, "From that other world I will come back and avenge myself on you!
As disembodied spirits, retaining memory of their former human relationships, they have an interest in human affairs, and especially in the affairs of the family of which they were lately members.
Once there, he dismissed almost all the members of his suite, retaining only two secretaries, a chaplain (!
With this idea ever present, he was bent upon retaining the advantage he had gained over Duke Ercole in the matter of poor young Donna Maria's betrothal, for he had other daughters to consider.
He usually carries fruit in his garments or a cornucopia in his hand, always, however, retaining his singularly revolting aspect.
Where domesticity is the ultimate aim, many women delay marriage because self-support renders them both able and desirous of retaining their independence for a considerable period.
So long as we know of no other system which would work better, we are justified in retaining capitalism.
After proving that wheat could be successfully produced he turned to irrigation projects, some of which now are honored in retaining the Blalock name.
Following his father's demise he came into possession of the farm on which he still resides, but has sold much of the land, retainingone hundred acres as a home.
Now, not only are the substitutions we have cited of commercial importance, but they act in the direction of retaining labor in a group where "labor saving" has been effected.
Retaining gold through all its minor variations will mean all the prosperity and all the justice that any monetary system can insure.
The increased output of one group is itself a means of retaining labor in other groups, even though, thanks to mere methods, that involves making more of every other kind of commodity.
Entrepreneurs in the large establishments can afford to resist the effort made by others to lure away any of the labor or capital which they are employing, and they will do this for the sake of retaining their profits.
Still retaining the skill and love of his profession that had once created him a power amongst his fellow-men, he rapidly acquired an immense practise in Johannesburg.
Fossil shells are usually found quite entire, andretaining all the characters requisite for comparing them with the specimens contained in collections of natural history, or represented in the works of naturalists.
But, fortunately, a language once developed is not blotted out in toto; it merely outlives its usefulness and is gradually supplanted, its successor retaining many traces of its origin.
They went out together, walked up and down the wide retaining wall of the lake, beyond the Smoke House.
He turned to the retaining wall, gazed into the water until she should fight down the evidences of weakness which he could not but see she was ashamed of.
Before her, one of its walls rising sheer from the retaining wall of the lake, stood the laboratory.
She went with him to theretaining wall, gave him her hand, tried to respond to his loving pressure.
During the Revolution they had lost their British identity while retaining their British names.
Thus the Philadelphia pharmacists devised eight new standardized formulas, aimed at retaining the therapeutic goals of the original patent medicines, while brought abreast of current pharmaceutical knowledge.
Vanessa demanded, still retaining the note of disappointed expectancy in her voice.
If by the same token I succeeded inretaining you in England, I feel I should in addition be doing a personal service to someone, to a lady, for whom you and I have a very deep respect.
These successive figures were simply pushed across the screen one after another, each of them as motionless as a statue, the men fixed in one attitude, and the legs of the horses retainingalways the same position.
But he saw his profit in retaining the chorus, since this could be made to serve as the appropriate mouthpiece for the elaborate passages of elocutionary splendor in which he delighted.
He could not work with others, and broke with nearly all his friends, retaining only his disciples.
It then came out that the man was a chemist, and that he had invented a process by which he could dye the feathers of living birds any color he pleased, retaining at the same time all the natural gloss of the plumage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retaining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: employment; preservation; tenacious
