She made a little deprecating gesture with her disengaged hand as if to ward off any retaliating gallantry.
The American Indian who eats the vermin which molest him defends his action by arguing that, as the animal has first bitten him, he is only retaliating the injury on the injurer.
Explanation of the practice of retaliating upon animals, pp.
The emissaries of Castile, too, eagerly seized this occasion of retaliating on John his interference in the domestic concerns of that monarchy, by fanning the spark of discord into a flame.
And a French writer, in the same spirit, denies that the French Government would have been justified in retaliating on Russia, when the Czar had his French prisoners of war consigned to the mines of Siberia.
The exasperated inhabitants were with difficulty restrained from retaliating this severity by an extermination of all the British troops.
He saw the tide was turning, and then struck one bold blow, not now for freedom of petition and debate, but a stroke of bold and retaliating warfare.
The sophistry pleased Barker, even though it put him into a certain retaliating attitude towards his wife which he was not aware of feeling.
To her surprise and the keen retaliatingdelight of her sex, a conscious flush covered his face to the crisp edges of his black and matted beard.
In November, 1807, the British, in conformity with their notice, issued their retaliating order.
Whilst I protest against the principle of retaliating upon an enemy through the medium of a friend, yet these orders and decrees have no claim even to that principle.
In five minutes the incensed Hun is retaliating for the disturbance of his afternoon siesta.
Frigate John Adams, in which he complained of being ill treated by Captain Rogers; that, in consequence of this, he should be under the necessity of retaliating such ill treatment upon us, unless Captain B.
Rosswell received the castigation with the utmost humility; and from that day forward avoided the little dog, never retaliating when annoyed, and hanging down his head when its name was mentioned.
Depend on it, you will often find the means of avoiding annoyances much after the method pursued by that sensible house-dog, without retaliating on those who annoy you.
It was only retaliatingfor what we had done, sometimes for many weeks at a time, when out of supplies taking what the Confederate army otherwise would have gotten.
I have always contended that I would have been justified in retaliating for this unnecessary act of war, but did not, though I always characterized it as it deserved.
The doctrine of not retaliating injuries is much better expressed in Proverbs, which is a collection as well from the Gentilcs as the Jews, than it is in the Testament.
Their manufactures must advance by slow degrees; and they were not to enter into a measure of this kind, for the purpose of retaliating on a nation which had not commercially injured them.
But they did not approve ofretaliating injuries under the cloak of commercial regulations.
In congress, vigorous measures were adopted for retaliatinginjuries which had been sustained, and for repelling those which were threatened.
Both parties thus mutually retaliating on each other, affairs went from bad to worse, and at last the foreign contingent broke up altogether.
And in fact the king and his staff were fully convinced that, in thus acting, they were obeying the dictates of right and justice, by retaliating upon the Aetolians with the same impious outrages as they had themselves committed at Dium.
Accordingly, when the greater part of Iberia had fallen into their power, they were on the alert to seize any opportunity that presented itself of retaliating upon Rome.
They avowed the utmost devotion to the Union and a determination to stand by the laws, but insisted that it would be absolutely necessary for them to take measures to defend themselves by retaliating on the Indians.
By the terms of these orders De Ruyter was directed to fill up a year's provisions on the coast of Spain, and to follow in the track of Holmes, retaking the places he had seized, and retaliating for the damage he had done to Dutch commerce.
The Algerines fitted out a squadron for the purpose of retaliating on English commerce.
It was the previous associations and habits of the negro that kept him from retaliating for the several massacres that had been perpetrated upon his brother-soldiers.
I mean a kind of personal ridiculing, and retaliatingeach other's national foible, unmercifully.
Governor Clarke, on the plea of retaliating Spanish outrages, gave letters of marque to several privateers, including Coxon, the same famous chief who in 1680 had led the buccaneers into the South Seas.
By such subtle means had the courage and the energies of almost every State which had fallen under the French yoke, been previously undermined, and they well merited the instant and retaliating vengeance of a great kingdom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retaliating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
