Notwithstanding his devotion Delia was faithless, and the poet sought distraction in surrendering to the charms of another mistress.
If he accepted it, the risk was enormous, lest a people tired of his eloquence might prefer the sound of a new voice, and thus force on him the humiliation of surrendering his crown and his titles to another.
The disordered state of the Republic, in which party-spirit had banished patriotism and was itselfsurrendering to armed violence, called for a style of speaking commensurate with the turbulence of public life.
The counts of San Lucar were hereditary alcaldes of Triana, and in return forsurrendering the castle, they were granted the dignity of Alguazil Mayor of the Inquisition.
But they were weak vessels yielding readily to temptation, accepting bribes hungrily, swallowing drink greedily when offered, quickly cowed by the threats of prison bullies and surrendering at discretion when opposed.
In case of forfeiture or surrender the land and permanent improvements are reappraised separately, and the value of such improvements when received by Government from new tenant or freeholder, will be paid to surrendering freeholder.
Buck started back with his burden just in time, for Satan, surrendering to his exhaustion, pitched to the ground, and lay with sprawling legs like a spent dog rather than a horse.
For a reason mysterious and far beyond the horizon of his knowledge, Dan was surrendering Kate Cumberland to him.
Unto New York this lord has gone, surrendering you see, And for to write these doleful lines unto his majesty; For to contradict those lines, which he before had sent, That he and his brave British crew were conquerors where they went.
But the duke felt himself too strongly supported to be under the necessity of surrendering his dominions, and receiving others in exchange.
Aratus remained quiet within the walls, but began to consider whether it would be necessary for him to obtain the assistance of Antigonus by surrendering the citadel of Corinth to him: for his help was not to be had on any other terms.
In Roman law, the term is especially applied to the disowning of a member of a family, as the disinheriting of a son, but the word is seldom used except in the sense of surrendering the supreme power in a state.
He had after the siege of Miletus disbanded the Graeco- Macedonian fleet, surrendering for the time all attempts to challenge the command of the Aegean.
The treachery of Red Cedar, in surrendering to the Government the secret of your conspiracy, places you in a critical position, from which you cannot escape save by violent measures.
Between this and tomorrow certain things will happen to free us from the Comanches, and let us dispense with surrendering the prisoners they demand so insolently.
In ancient Greece and in mediaeval Italy there were many Benedict Arnolds; in the United States a single plot for surrendering a stronghold to the enemy has consigned its author to a solitary immortality of infamy.
This defeat so cowed the Indians that they were fain to purchase peace by surrendering all their claims upon the hunting-grounds south of the Ohio.
Were they justified in abandoning Messana, and thereby surrendering the command of the last free passage between the eastern and western seas, and sacrificing the commercial liberty of Italy?
Faith, some say, consists in not thinking about it, in surrendering ourselves trustingly to the arms of God, the secrets of whose providence are inscrutable.
If we could attain to a clear vision of this anacefaleosis, if we could succeed in understanding and feeling that we were going to enrich Christ, should we hesitate for a moment in surrendering ourselves utterly to Him?
When we die, we are surrendering in truth all that with which we have associated existence.
The Turks had shut themselves up in a church; into this, by night, the Suliotes threw a number of hives, full of bees, whose insufferable stings soon brought the haughty Moslems into the proper surrendering mood.
But in surrendering to the city countless farm boys of character and promise who have since become the city's leaders, many a rural village has suffered irreparably.
He stressed the absurdity of surrendering for a crime committed ten years before and forgotten.
That Livingstone was Clark, and that he would insist on surrendering himself when he wakened, he could no longer doubt.
General Jackson impliedly censures the garrison for surrendering so quickly; but in such a fort it was absolutely impossible to act otherwise, and not the slightest stain rests upon the fort's defenders.
In fine, not content withsurrendering Paris, the Government of the National Defence surrendered all France.
Others thought that by surrendering themselves to the Prussians, who would deliver them up to Versailles, they might put an end to the massacres.
After all, the whole gang of conspirators did not succeed in surrendering one single gate, but they lent considerable aid in disorganising the services.
Compare the conduct of the Minister of War of the Commune with the cowardice of the Bonapartist Minister and generals escaping death by surrendering their swords.
Everybody came to it, the garrison of Vincennes spontaneously surrendering themselves with the fort.
Then there was a large party who were for surrendering the town to the Boers, because if they fought it might afterwards injure their trade.
Colonel Winsloe, however, being short of provisions, was beguiled by the fraudulent representations and acts of the Boer commander into surrendering the fort at Potchefstroom daring the armistice.
The former wished to retire behind the Meuse and evacuate the eastern forts and trenches, thereby gaining a strong defensive line, but surrendering Verdun.
Deserters, surrendering to Italian patrols, report that an important action is impending.
For not one fraction of a second could he countenance the thought of surrendering Binhart.
Blake, feeling himself surrendering to the tide that had been tugging at him so long.
He acquired the trick of surrendering data without any shadow of actual statement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surrendering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
