Some urged the King to abdicate in favor of the Comte de Paris; others vigorously opposed such a relinquishment of power in presence of the insurrection.

Sent away almost by force, like a queen who is bound to abdicate at last, she had been loaded with presents for herself and her husband, and her little girl at the village!

The Ch'ien-lung emperor abdicated on New Year's Day, 1795, after ruling for sixty years.

Otherwise it is not robberyto which we should submitbut gratuitous degradation; we should abdicate before the eyes of our own people.

Neither does it appear how a prince's abdication can make any other sort of vacancy in the throne, than would be caused by his death, since he cannot abdicate for his children (who claim their right of succession by act of parliament) otherwise than by his own consent in form to a bill from the two houses.

But you required them not; Content to reign your little while Ere, abdicating with a smile, You pass'd into a shade, a shade Immortaland f