16 adjectives to describe retiring

" "Now that the gentlemen have got on to business, my dear, I think we had better retire to the drawing-room," said Mrs. Heron, with an attempt at the "grand lady.

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from withering life away; New forms arise, and different views engage, Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

Their clear, healthy complexion, though often touched with pallor, their simple, unimportunate demeanour, and the general rusticity of their appearance, shows them to be "Suppliants who would blush To wear a tatter'd garb, however coarse; Whom famine cannot reconcile to filth; Who ask with painful shyness, and refused, Because deserving, silently retire.

Aged men with tears Have blessed their steps, the fatherless retire For shelter to their banners.

278 And now four days the sun had seen our woes: Four nights the moon beheld the incessant fire: It seem'd as if the stars more sickly rose, And farther from the feverish north retire.

Soon as the father saw the rosy morn, And the moon shining with a blunter horn, He bid the nimble Hours without delay Bring forth the steeds; the nimble Hours obey: From their full racks the generous steeds retire, 140 Dropping ambrosial foams and snorting fire.

And if such men could not hinder Fate's resistless rise and fall, How can we expect exemption From the common lot of all? Let us frankly face the prospect That man's progress here may fail; That the race may never triumph, But again descend the scale, Till the last surviving savage To his glacial cave retires, And earth's tragic drama closes, As humanity expires!

" As Maso ceased, he cast a glance towards the attentive, breathless Adelheid, that continued to utter his meaning even after the tongue was silent The bright suffusion that covered the maiden's face was visible even by the pale moonlight, and Sigismund shrunk back from his rude grasp in the manner in which the guilty retire from notice.

Both by two gen'rous princes loved, Who knew, and judged what they approved; 90 Yet having each the same desire, Both from the busy throng retire.

" "Thou mayest retire," rejoined the judge.

No help avails: for hydra-like, the fire Lifts up his hundred heads to aim his way; And scarce the wealthy can one half retire, Before he rushes in to share the prey.

for not one quiv'ring breeze "Has ruffled yet the surface of the seas 160 "Swift from your rocky steeps, ye condors[E] stray, "Wave your black plumes, and cleave th' aërial way; "Proud in terrific force, your wings expand, "Press the firm earth, and darken all the strand; "Bid the stern foe retire with wild affright, 170[F] "And shun the region veil'd in partial night.

When he sees G. come through the compound, he bounds to my room, holds up the chick and announcing "Mees come," retires, stiff with pride at his knowledge of the language.

At first encounter rush uppon theire foes But straight retire: retire?

They, who are by your favours wealthy made, With mighty sums may carry on the trade: We, broken bankers, half destroy'd by fire, With our small stock to humble roofs retire: Pity our loss, while you their pomp admire.

If any of those disorders still exist, which it was their intention to cure, they cannot (if these are curable) retire from the course and saythere is now no further need of our interference.

16 adjectives to describe  retiring