By one chance he might even yet retrieve himself, and aspire to a certain position in the world.
Always hoping toretrieve the effects of past extravagance, and intending to repair the mischief of former faults, he allowed himself to be led into fresh wastefulness, and to be involved in further guilt.
But I will follow your Advice with an active Resolution, to retrieve my bad Fortune, and almost a Year miserably misspent.
Like Lord Rochester, who had ordered all his immoral works to be burnt, Buckingham now wished to retrieve the past.
He sought to retrieve his fortune in the island of Martinique, ill-treated his wife, and eventually ran away, and left her and her children to their fate.
They expressed the utmost confidence in our integrity and business skill, uttered no word of blame but much of encouragement, and begged us to go on and retrieve our fortunes.
Besides, I felt confident that we should retrieve our affairs by our own efforts.
His affairs were now in a sad state of embarrassment, for he obtained but a slender jointure with his wife; and, to retrieve them, he once again turned his attention to the stage.
Tis like the unfortunate abandoned by his friends, who, however, continue to hang around him, though more to impede his way than to retrieve his fortunes!
A gang of conspirators had hit upon the desperate mode of passing forged notes, in order to retrieve their ruined fortunes.
When he was reloading the keeper begged him to say which of the dogs should retrieve the game.
The finishing lessons might conclude with your shooting the bird and obliging him to retrieve it.
Let a dog retrieve ever so carelessly, still, while on the move, he will rarely drop a bird.
If by any chance you have a winged pheasant or partridge, let him retrieve it.
One of mine is to think a regular retriever positively not worth his keep for general shooting if one of your setting dogs will retrieve well.
You need hardly be cautioned not to let more than one dog retrieve the same bird.
Water Retrievers, or Water Spaniels, to retrieve crippled before picking up dead Wild Fowl; how taught.
Indeed, you should never permit your dog to retrieve any kind of ground or winged vermin.
Howard voted to remain, without reference to the situation of the army, because in his opinion his corps had behaved badly, and he wished to retrieve its reputation.
Regaining the path, he sped upward, pausing only to retrieve the pistol which had proved so efficient a sentinel.
He thrust it into a ditch, and if ever he was able to retrieve it no more valued souvenir of the great war will adorn his dwelling.
Lady Durwent, trying to retrievethe conversation from the slough of her inamorato's ponderosity.
To the American the real cruelty of the thing lay in the existence of a Society that could first debase so fine a creature, and then make no effort to retrieve or to atone for its crime.
She knew that soft appeals were vain, tears like water on a rock, and with the skill that had subdued him once she endeavored to retrieveher blunder by an equanimity which had more effect than prayers or protestations.
Maintenance crews worked through the night toretrieve a third tank, “Cecilia,” on Green Beach for Major Ryan.
The ship dispatched a boat to retrieve the vehicle.
I have worked the whole subject in my own mind, and see a clear way to retrieve a great property, at least to my son and his family, if my plan meets the support I hope it will appear to merit.
I am very, very sorry you are ill; but I trust in God your naturally strong constitution will retrieve all, and that I shall soon have the satisfaction of hearing that you are in a fair way of recovery.
This is our last detour," replied the Elector; "there are now many miles of winding but level road before us, and you have thus a chance to retrieve your reputation as a horseman in the eyes of our troop.
They are one and all eager to retrieve themselves in your Majesty's eyes!
Mahomet the Third, hearing of this disaster, dispatched a formidable army to retrieve or avenge it; and in the bloody battle that ensued on the plains of Girke, Smith had a horse shot under him, and was badly wounded.
A] Braddock, however, showed that although he could not retrievethese errors, nor reclaim a degenerate soldiery, he could at any rate fall like a soldier.
Never had Italian prestige fallen so low in the Levant as at this period, and the Italian Government did nothing to retrieve the situation.
It appeared that he was to be numbered with those who begin badly and retrieve the situation afterwards.
Careers have dawned in beauty and promise and set in blood and failure; and, again, you find people who make a bad start, yet manage to retrieve the situation.
Eager to retrieve his losses at play, Lucien shook off his dejection, summoned up his energy and youthful force, and wrote thirty articles of two columns each.
Certain it is that he had returned to Whitehall in a sullen mood, and that, after a consultation overnight with his officers, his conclusion was that he must at once retrieve himself.
But Fairfax had not forgotten the splendid young man, and had every wish to retrieve his fortunes for him.
Good sense is required to teach that a perpetually recurring small expense is more to be avoided than an incidental great one, while it shows that petty savings can not retrieve an injured estate.
If any little rule was broken, she repaired the failure with treble diligence the following day; and labored to retrieve her perplexed accounts with the comfortless anxiety of a person who is working out a heavy debt.
Any of the experimental females would quickly retrieve one of her eggs moved a short distance outside the nest cavity.
The party, like men eager to retrieve lost time, were soon deep in their game, very little being uttered, save such remarks as the contest called for.
The kings and princes who directed the crusade, wishing to retrieve so shameful a reverse before they returned to Palestine, led the army towards Phœnicia.
They then considered what it was possible to propose that might retrieve their affairs, and concluded that entirely to quit London for some years, was the only chance that remained of saving them from absolute destruction.
The game was to pelt away, retrieve your bird as quickly as you could, and pelt away again.
At times he might try to flush quail in the open, instead of standing them; or would attempt to retrievesome perfectly lively specimens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retrieve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
