So in this tall and narrow street I lie as in Death's lone retreat And hear, loud in the pulse of Life, Eternity upon me beat!
And when I turn into my street I hear in murmurous retreat A tide of noises flowing out -- The city ebbing from my feet!
In the palmy days of Borne, Naples was a luxurious retreat for emperors and wealthy citizens of the great empire.
When the sea was wildest and the deck was wave-swept, he in his safe retreat made sketches of waves and their combinations which he hoped sometime to reproduce on canvas.
But she must not leave this retreat until I am assured on what terms we are to stand.
In the numerous ravines surrounding Jellore the little river Nattai has its sources, and this wild region is the haunt and secure retreat of the Nattai tribe whose chief, Moyengully, was one of my earliest aboriginal friends.
A favourable moment had not occurred before they awoke my suspicions; and thus their motives for sudden retreat were to be understood.
To our surprise, the Count joined in Ludovico's song, in a rich bass voice that resounded through the little pergola and brought a crowd of urchins to our retreat with their hands full of grilli in cages.
For a good fifteen minutes the ill-omened crew continued their retreat by forced march.
It was about eight o'clock, and in the shady retreat the freshness of springtime reigned.
Beating a rapid retreat behind a pillar of the chapel he vanished.
But they soon found that their retreat was cut off by a ring of flames.
No pomp was there, no glory shone around On the coarse straw that strewed the reeking ground; One dim retreat a flickering torch betrayed,-- In that poor cell the Lord of Life was laid!
Then, during the time of severe weather, the young folks would have a splendid sheet of ice right at their doors, a comfortable retreat into which they could go to warm up, or to put on and remove their skates.
Then again I've heard of how it was a swing that had a white pillow left in it by the children, and the night wind caused it to advance and retreat in a terrible way.
He saw that a good line of retreatled from it over the shoulder of the hill, and then down a slope that admitted good speed.
We'd have to abandon the canoe and retreat back from the southern shore.
He had been in his retreat a week when he felt a light and soft touch on his face, the breath of the west wind.
Sheldon smiled and beat a further retreat within himself, listening the while to Joan and Tudor propounding the theory of the strong arm by which the white man ordered life among the lesser breeds.
And the effect of the other's amazing exhibitions was to make him retreat more deeply within himself and wrap himself more thickly than ever in the nerveless, stoical calm of his race.
My first impulse was to make as rapid a retreat as possible, and bend our steps in some other direction; but our curiosity to see whither this path might lead, prompted us to pursue it.
Babel was, I dare say, comparatively to this, a place of retreat and silence.
The retreat of the Prussian army excites more surprize than interest, and the people talk of it with as much indifference as they would of an event that had happened beyond the Ganges.
At once Matilda was taken to the shady retreat where Mrs. Carmichael and Miss Halbert were, and all the ladies waited upon her with what was left of the eatables and drinkables, in spite of Mr. Perrowne's appetite.
This desire became so violent and persistent that she would seek out men in all sorts of public places and, having induced them to expose themselves, rapidly retreat to the nearest convenient spot for self-gratification.
Once well out on the steppe, in a flat open cart, with no shelter of any kind and retreat impossible, down came the pitiless rain.
Then I pulled, and wheeling round with a short sharp cry, she disappeared in the higher covert, followed in her retreat by a snap-shot from my second barrel, which evidently did not take effect.
The tradesman will mark each yard of your retreat by a fresh abatement of price or by specious offers.
We shall remain in this charming retreat until you are completely recovered, then we shall join the army, and enroll in the same regiment.
The Grand Duke ordered a retreat on the gallop, in order to reform his ranks out of range.
It is our hope that, favored by the tumult, we may be able boldly to seize Louis XVI, and carry him off to some saferetreat prepared in advance.
The agents of the police, in their search of the house, soon arrived at the retreat which sheltered advocate Desmarais.
The stupid monarch and his minister did not begin to recognize the gravity of their situation till the evening of the 29th, when the troops, thoroughly routed, beat a retreat upon St. Cloud.
We must haste to profit by the hesitation into which this discreet retreat will have thrown the enemy.
Here is what I would suggest: I know a retreat almost inaccessible to the Jesuits.
If we are beaten in Paris, we shall retreatto the revolted provinces!
The die was cast, and retreat cut off for the timid and the malcontent; through a course of alternate successes and reverses Washington had kept up hostilities during the rough campaign of 1776.
People compared the retreat from Prague to the Retreat of the Ten Thousand; but the truth came out for all the fictions of flattery and national pride.
The fleet of Admiral de Grasse cut off the retreat of the English.
I have but two things to do with my life: to hazard it with honor, as soon as I can, and to end it in the obscurity of a retreat which suits my way of thinking, my misfortunes, and the knowledge I have of men.
The English regarded thisretreat as a humiliation to which they were unaccustomed Lord Keppel had to appear before a court-martial.
Marshal Saxe was preparing for the retreat of the army; he had relinquished his proposal for that of the king, from the time that the English had come up and pressed him closely.
Chauvelin had the honor of connecting his name therewith before disappearing forever in his retreat at Grosbois, to expend his life in vain regrets for lost power, and in vain attempts to recover it.
The retreat of the Hollanders admitted of the movement; the small field-pieces, as yet dragged by hand, were pointed against the English column.
When the survivors had got more than halfway back, their further retreat was covered by the field guns, and Bob again withdrew his men a little to the rear, well content with his successful stand.
Under this pressure the retreat became a rout, and the rout a slaughter.
Bob sent one of the men back to fetch three of the Sikhs; their rifles might at any rate suffice to check a rush long enough for the miners to retreat to the bridge.
They would then be able to cut off the retreat of Lawrence and his party, trapped between the Kalmuck miners and their countrymen advancing up the valley.
The story of the greatretreat cannot be told in these pages.
It was to secure theretreat of Lawrence and his little party.
I'd left the bridge down under a guard, so that the others got back safely, but their retreat had a bad effect on the rest.
Bob had reckoned on employing the Pathans to garrison the mine if resistance should be considered possible, or at least on forming a compact body to accompany his retreat if he should feel it necessary to abandon the place.
Then the combined party, taking advantage of the many defensive positions which the broken ground afforded, could make good their retreat to the mine even against a more numerous enemy in pursuit.
It was also a signal to retreat to the mine, and he was glad of the chance of stretching his limbs and of soon rejoining his brother.
