He said, "It is very rarely successful; it retards the course of your penitence.

Break Thou that wall Which with its stubbornness retards the rays Of that bright sun this earth hath dulled for me!

"This tediousness of suits keeps the parties in disquiet and perturbation, rouses and perpetuates animosities, exhausts the litigants by expense, retards the progress of their fortune, and discourages strangers from settling.

"Besides the danger connected with the use of alcoholic drinks which is common to them with other narcotic poisons, alcohol retards the growth of young cells and prevents their proper development.

So that alcohol in all its forms is particularly injurious to young persons, as it retards their growth, and stunts both body and mind.

An unusually severe winter was setting in; but a circumstance which in common cases retards the operations of war was, in the present instance, the means of hurrying on the conquest on which the French general was bent.

Till the Moselle, appearing from afar, Retards the progress of the moving war.

The dauntless hero still pursues his stroke, And presses forward, till a knotty oak Retards his foe, and stops him in the rear; Full in his throat he plunged the fatal spear, That in the extended neck a passage found, 130 And pierced the solid timber through the wound.

In a state of society our ideas habitually succeed in a certain proportion, and an employment that retards their progress, speedily becomes disagreeable and tedious.

The shade causes excess of moisture, chills, weakens and retards the plants; encourages parasitic moss and insects; and, moreover, is least useful in the very months in which the sun is hottest, viz.

From some experiments made on a small scale, therefore under essentially different conditions, and never with the same material, it appeared that the oil accelerates the separation of the sulphur, and retards the access of the air to the sulphur.

All this stuff only retards the action.

The main obstacle that retards the absorption of the Negro into the general population is the apparently intense prejudice against color which prevails in the United States.

This seriously retards recovery.

"The consequence is, that they frown upon everyone whose faults or negligence interrupts or retards their lessons.

If we merely desire to do as little work and enjoy as much leisure as possible in our lives, we all find that it pays us to adopt that steady unanxious 'stroke' which neither advances nor retards promotion.

Very high speed is generally a delusion, and either results in indifferent work, or actually retards its progress.

She surrounded a tender, sensitive, musical and poetic soul, one quick to catch the tone of a higher spiritual faith, with the common conditions of ordinary social life, to show how such an "environment" cripples and retards a soul full of aspiration and capable of the best things.

Experience has proved that the coagulation of the sap retards, but does not prevent, the decay of wood permanently.

Directly flower appears, pick it off, as it retards the growth of the tubers.

Nothing retards thy Voyage, now; but He, That soft voluptuous Prince, call'd LUXURY; And he may ask this civil Question; Friend, What dost thou make a Shipboard?

Millet and sesame and the other similar grains sprout in the same time unless some thing in the nature of the soil or the weather retards them.

The undue influence of sentiment retards all domestic progress.

That care weighs me down, and I truly believe retards my recovery.

No dread Of change retards their wing; but off they soar Triumphing in the fancied dawn of Spring.