It is our duty not only to take the very best care of our teeth, but to retain them as long as possible.

In this congenial soil they retain their vitality for a long time, and possibly may take on more virulent infective properties than they possessed when expelled from the diseased lungs.

The functions of the bladder are to collect and retain the urine, which has reached it drop by drop from the kidneys through the ureters, until a certain quantity accumulates, and then to expel it from the body.

Men, as a rule, seldom remained at her side save through politeness, and even seemed to fear her; but never until now had she cared for any man sufficiently to wish to retain or interest him.

There is no height from which one may not fall; and it takes more ability to retain a proud position than to gain it.

Neither she nor her husband sought to retain anything amid the wreck, and they cheerfully took up their abode in a small apartment,which conduct won universal sympathy and respect, so that her friends were rather increased than diminished, and she did not lose her social prestige and influence, which she would have lost in cities where money is the highest, and sometimes the only, test of social position.

Nor let her clutch what she can neither retain nor enjoy.

There is a delight in this fragrance that none can appreciate as thoroughly as those who have enjoyed it in youth; it remains as long as human senses retain their faculties.

Why do you retain him? Prince.

I wonder that you still manage to retain your kind heart.

The kidneys failed to retain Mike's undivided attention.

If our cities were not recruited constantly with the fresh, clean blood of the country, with boys who still retain some of the power and the vision drawn from the soil, where would they be!

It could retain the monetary system we know to-day and it could supply the commodities to the consumers, not as a matter of right, but by selling them to them at a price.

Such diagrams are of great service in many parts of economic theory, not because they can prove anything which could not be proved otherwise, but because, being really a simpler medium of expression than words, they enable the mind to grasp more readily and to retain more vividly the essential facts of complex relations.

I retain some taste for fine scenery, but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did."

A plain man may be puzzled by these attempts to retain the letter of old dogmas emptied of their old meaning, and may think it natural enough that the head of the Catholic [201] Church should take a clear and definite stand against the new learning which, seems fatal to its fundamental doctrines.

There are more monsters retain to him than to all the limbs in anatomy.

Our regard for people whom we do not seeeven though they be our dearest friendsgradually dries up in the course of years, and they become abstract notions; so that our interest in them grows to be more and more intellectual,nay, it is kept up only as a kind of tradition; whilst we retain a lively and deep interest in those who are constantly before our eyes, even if they be only pet animals.

"I can understand a man of better fortune, as I perceive you have been, wishing in such a position as this to retain his incognito.

Well, resumed the prince with a half smile, I am so well pleased with the conviction this letter has given me, that I shall retain no resentment against the malicious author of it.

He must see that he does not take lands where water may lodge, and, on the other hand, avoid those that do not retain their moisture.

And they will keep doing it, day after day, and retain their condition.

In this way you will secure the colt's confidence, and he will retain it until you need him for work.

For this reason it would be better to husband the supply of hard bread and bacon for use with the emergency ration when it becomes evident that the latter must be consumed rather than to retain the emergency ration to the last extremity and force its exclusive use for a longer period than two or three days.

He said that the West India planters were very anxious to retain the services of the negro population.