This emigration should be voluntary, for it would be as cruel as unjust to compel the aborigines to abandon the graves of their fathers and seek a home in a distant land.

This vanished when the music changed and the well-balanced figures, raising bent arms, danced with riotous abandon.

Not for a second did it occur to him that folk like Akka and Morten Goosey-Gander would abandon him.

In short, one does not meet with that abandon in society that is to be met with in Paris; you must measure your words well to shine in a Genevese society.

Besides, the adviser is too young; that is why, Monsieur le Curé, I ask you to abstain in the future from all advice, and undertake to abandon any intention you may have with regard to the direction of this young soul.

But the Curé of Althausen had not undertaken this adventurous expedition to abandon it at the moment when he was attaining his object.

Could be abandon thus his heart which he had left behind there?

Mr. Samuel Isham, in his authoritative "History of American Painting," published in 1910, after giving a brief biographical sketch of Morse and telling why he came to abandon the brush, thus sums up: "It was a serious loss, for Morse, without being a genius, was yet, perhaps, better calculated than another to give in pictures the spirit of the difficult times from 1830 to 1860.

Temptation to abandon enterprise.

I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Because of subsequent attempts to destroy the building, Mr. May and Miss Crandall decided to abandon the school.

Days and nights were spent in steadfast struggling against the threatening inevitable, before the party gave up; and Greenwood and Reed, taking the two Reed children and also Solomon Hook, who walked, started down the mountain, hoping to save their own lives and perhaps get fresh men to complete the pitiful work which they had been forced to abandon.

Can't see how girls who have their living to earn could sing 'Don't You Care' with complete abandon.

Do you ask what can be done, if you abandon the ballot box?

They are powerful appeals and have invariably done the work they were designed to do, and we cannot consent to abandon the use of these until the realities no longer exist.

He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting, them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.

Reluctantly and sadly we have had to abandon our cherished planit is a thousand pities.

It is a thousand pities to have to abandon such a spot.

I was finally, after five years of residence, obliged to abandon our home at Florence by the constant recurrence of fevers, which gave us perpetual anxiety as well as perplexity, for there is no malaria in that part of Tuscany.

The Queen, while listening to these counsels, did not cease her entreaties that he would abandon his intention of quitting the kingdom, and leave the conduct of the campaign to his generals.

He it is who has induced your Majesty to abandon your mother, who is not only condemned to exile, but reduced to the greatest necessity, and indebted to strangers for the very means of existence.

As a natural consequence of his imprudence Caussin was shortly afterwards arrested, and banished to Brittany; and the Cardinal no sooner ascertained the complicity of Monod than, despite the reluctance of the Duchess of Savoy to abandon a man who had hazarded his life in her cause, he was, in his turn, condemned to expiate his error by a rigorous captivity.

It was Ulysses, therefore, who decided to abandon the seafaring life.

He did not abandon his post in order to trouble the captain with his explanations; he scarcely raised his eyes from the newspaper that he had before him.

If it were necessary, he would abandon it, remaining forever in Naples.