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Example sentences for "still retained"

  • Under the Chappel, there was a Charnell-House, which was a remarkable one in former Times, and the Name is still retained.

  • But whether the received principle and undeniable action of the Moon may not be still retained, although in some difference of application, is yet to be perpended [SN: Rog.

  • But a word derived from the same root, is still retained; viz.

  • Laches, from the French lachesse, is still retained in the law stile; but custom has abbreviated the word into lache, a single syllable.

  • The word bot or bote is still retained in the law language, as fire-bote, house-bote; where it is equivalent to enough or sufficiency.

  • I strongly suspect that the primitive language of the north of Europe was the root of the Sclavonic, still retained in Russia, Poland, Hungary, &c.

  • The ancient form of bread is still retained in the paschal cake of the Jews, and in the knæckbröd[1014] of the Swedes.

  • The idea that he held in his arms the girl whom he had once so passionately loved, and for whom he still retained an ardent but hopeless attachment, almost overcame him.

  • In order to make up for this hard necessity, they resolved to land in Sicily on their return, and, if possible, reduce some cities which the Carthaginians still retained in that island.

  • For some time after the discovery of America it was supposed to be part of India: and hence, the name of the West Indies, still retained by the islands in the Gulph of Mexico, was given to all those countries.

  • In the yearly "Statement of the Treasurer" of Harvard College, the word is still retained.

  • From the statements of graduates of the last century, it seems that this had been the customary tune for some time previous to this year, and it is still retained as a precious legacy of the past.

  • The use of this word and its collaterals is still retained in the University of Cambridge, Eng.

  • The term, however, is still retained in popular usage as in the words Christmas, Michaelmas, etc.

  • This position is still retained in some churches at the present time, but in most churches it is placed near the chancel for convenience, or because no place at the door was provided by the architect.

  • This custom is still retained in the Greek Church.

  • Even their southern neighbors, they thought, though separated from Rome, still retained a great tincture of the primitive pollution; and their liturgy was represented as a species of mass, though with some less show and embroidery.

  • He was the first who classified and exhibited the muscles in a proper arrangement, and applied to them a nomenclature which is still retained by the consent of the best anatomists.

  • In Ireland the action for criminal conversation is still retained.

  • Hence the oldest name for such passes is Mont (still retained in cases of the Mont Cenis and the Monte Moro), for it was many ages before this term was especially applied to the peaks of the Alps, which with a few very rare exceptions (e.

  • It was placed on the grape list of the American Pomological Society fruit catalog in 1883 and is still retained.

  • It was placed on the grape list of the American Pomological Society fruit catalog in 1867 and is still retained there.

  • Barry was placed on the list of the American Pomological Society in 1869 where it is still retained.

  • It was placed on the grape list of the American Pomological Society fruit catalog in 1881 where it is still retained.

  • Thus, they worshipped a sort of goddess, whom they called Mara, formed from those frightful appearances that oppress men in their sleep; and the name is still retained among us.

  • This custom is still retained in Germany, where the bride is adorned with a Myrtle wreath.

  • Its old German name of Root of the Holy Ghost is still retained in some northern countries.

  • In Glamorganshire, the old custom is still retained of strewing the bed whereon a corpse rests with fragrant flowers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another point; colored school; done from; high authority; still another; still called; still continues; still found; still further; still going; still greater; still have; still here; still holds; still less; still looking; still observed; still others; still possible; still preserved; still retains; still smiling; still standing; still tongue; still upon; still very