Soon at his high command Rebuked, the disappointed, hungry pack Retire submiss, and grumbling quit their prey.

But we have made the circuit of the church without beholding the choir, and we must not quit its precincts without entering there.

Ay, but lookee noo! an' quit!

"At the first disobedience, we will quit you."

Have we not just seen a Republican committee acting at Baltimore, in the midst of Maryland? Has not this same Maryland just rejected, by the popular vote, the infamous law which its legislature had adopted, and by virtue of which free negroes who should not quit the State would be reduced by right to slavery?

shorn of, deprived of; denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off; dispossessed &c 789; rid of, quit of; out of pocket. lost &c v.; long lost; irretrievable &c (hopeless) 859; off one's hands.

quit one's hold, quitclaim.

But he would not quit his home to be an ornament of their courts.

Therefore, at last she was reluctantly compelled to quit her post of observation, and retrace her steps by the rough byroad to the house, entering by one of the windows of the morning-room, of which the burglar-alarm was broken, and which on many occasions she had unfastened after her nocturnal rambles with Stewart.

They usually quit firing their heavy guns just before dark, and usually begin again at eight and keep it up for an hour or two.

" So we two took our coffee cups and our cigars in our hands and went out through a side passage to the terrace, and sat on a little iron bench, where a shaft of light, from a window of the room we had just quit, showed a narrow streak of flowering plants beyond the bricked wall and a clump of red and yellow woodbine on a low wall.

So after that I quit asking.

The rest darted back to the cover which they had just quit and jumped in briskly.

We were 'olding the center and when the Frenchies fell back they didn't give our chaps no warning, and pretty soon the Dutchmen they 'ad us flanked both sides and we 'ad to quit.

But we didn't quit until we'd lost all but one of our officers and a good 'alf of our men.

We got it ourselves; and not until we had quit the zone of hostilities did we shake it off.

As time wore on, and as the King's derangement deprived her of her only protector, it even seemed as if he desired to give it all the notoriety possible, till at last, wearied out by his implacable persecution, she sought and obtained his permission to quit the country and take up her abode abroad.

The great excitement among the populace alarmed Pilate so much, that he sent to the fortress of Antonia for a reinforcement of Roman soldiers, and posed these well-disciplined troops round the guard-house; they were permitted to talk and to deride Jesus in every possible way, but were forbidden to quit their ranks.

And here I quit the land of "The Bond and the Free." "Nineveh, Babylon, and ancient Rome Speak to the present times, and times to come: They cry aloud in every careless ear, 'Stop, while you may; suspend your mad career;

That among the Romans, for a man to quit his post was a capital offence, and that parents had sanctioned that law by the death even of their own children.

It was at this very nick, so to speak, that Mr. Pike made to Mr. Fluker the suggestion to quit a business so far beneath his powers, sell out, or rent out, or tenant out, or do something else with his farm, march into town, plant himself upon the ruins of Jacob Spouter, and begin his upward soar.

and I could quit any time after five o'clock in the afternoon.

"You see, when I made up my mind to quit the life, there was n't a soul to lend me a hand; but I knew that the only thing for me to do was to get ashore and find some kind of work, so I could study.

Quit the house instantly with your companion, or I will give the alarm, and Amabel

"I will never quit the cathedral without them," replied Leonard.