97 collocations for retrieved

Musa endeavored to retrieve the fortune of the field.

And in this disease, more than any other, it is particularly important that the mother should give her personal superintendence; for the activity of the progress of the disease leaves no time to retrieve errors or atone for neglect.

What steps were they going to take to retrieve their characters and minister to the public entertainment?

The Crown Prince lost at least fourteen cents, and, just as he had a splendid opportunity to retrieve his losses, in came an aide, who announced that the French had squatted.

But General Castelnau and General Foch, between them, retrieved the disaster.

De Witt being now discharged by the Hollanders, as unfortunate, and the chief command restored to Van Trump, great preparations were made for retrieving their reputation, and repairing those losses.

Even this failed to retrieve the day, the tide having fallen too low for a successful landing.

He was afterward so much vexed and ashamed to think he had quitted the town to no more than 600 of the enemy, that, to retrieve a mistake which he feared might be looked upon as cowardice, being informed the body, of the army was near five leagues off, he sent a party of 1500 horse in order to surprize the king and his few guards.

Ordinarily, nations that begin to decline, decline constantly more and more; a rare power of life is needed to retrieve their position, and stop in its course a decay once begun.

"If the Slave Trade," says he, "was prohibited for four or five years, it would enable them to retrieve their affairs by preventing them from running into debt, either by renting or purchasing Negroes."

The Constitutionalists, indeed, held out pretty well, but then I was half ruined by the fall of the Brissotins; and, before I could retrieve a little by the Hebertists and Dantonists, the too were out of fashion.

The desirable new man was not dressed for tennis, and could not have played it in any clothes whatever, and so had to watch from the back line, where he also retrieved balls.

The French in some measure retrieved their late disgrace by the capture of Calais, the only town remaining to England of all its French conquests, and which, consequently, had deeply interested the national glory of each people.

By his Friendship and Assistance Amanda's Father was quickly in a condition of retrieving his perplex'd Affairs.

Holman's face showed the joy he felt at receiving another opportunity to retrieve the blunders we had made in our two previous attacks.

He could not hope to retrieve the consequences of a third overthrow.

True, he had retrieved his failure, had won his honours, but he came back to his home a very different fellow from the bright-faced youth who had gone out into college life some years before.

For never yet from Gallia's confines came War's fell eruption with so fierce a flame: She sent a Chief, matur'd in martial strife, Who fought for fame, for empire, and for life; Whose Host had sworn, deep-stung with recent shame, To satiate vengeance, and retrieve their fame!

The Trueborn Englishman concludes thus: Could but our ancestors retrieve their fate, And see their offspring thus degenerate; How we contend for birth and names unknown, And build on their past actions, not our own; They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And openly disown the vile degenerate race.

Matthews, who had behaved in a cowardly manner in the first affair, sought to retrieve his honour by sending a second challenge.

'T was not thy wont to hinder so, Retrieve thine industry.

Robespierre afterwards sacrificed his friends to retrieve his influence; but could his views have been answered by humane measures, as certainly as by cruel ones, I think he would have preferred the first; for I repeat, that the Convention at large were averse from any thing like reason or justice, and Robespierre more than once risked his popularity by professions of moderation.

Give her a chance to retrieve this one false step, and she may be restored to society, a useful and honored woman.

Alone, with these two hands, I had retrieved the capitulation of an army and the loss of a province.

"You shouldn't wear such things until it gets cold," she said, after retrieving the cap and handing it to him.

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