Though resigned to death, I am content to live.

But the Ministry resigned in consequence, and great disturbances arose in the city; the populace were not willing themselves to volunteer for the war, but they were determined that the Pope should not continue a man of peace.

In November, 1909, she resigned from her court work.

The ministry had resigned on the 20th.

The fact that in Britain two influential and honourable Cabinet Ministers resigned at once on the declaration of war (a fact upon which the Press has been curiously silent) cannot but "give one to think."

Even the honest man is not displeased to see himself important, and willingly resumes, in two years, that power which he had resigned for seven.

Cornelia gladly resigned into her more experienced hands the reins of government, and betook herself to occupations more congenial to her tastes than housekeeping.

[40] XL "Some mighty gulf of separation passed, I seemed transported to another world; A thought resigned with pain, when from the mast The impatient mariner the sail unfurled, 355 And, whistling, called the wind that hardly curled The silent sea.

On the other hand, the archbishop had no mind to resign without a contest all the results of the great tide of feeling which had swept the Church onward far past its old landmarks.

He was opposed to any change, didn't want W. to go, said his presence at the Foreign Office gave confidence to Europe,he might perhaps remain at the Foreign Office and resign as Premier, but that, naturally, he wouldn't do.

1848 had shocked his notion of Right, he had resigned after the 24th of February; he did not resign after the 2d December.

Besides, he did not resign like three other members of the Cabinet (Lord Morley, Burns and Charles Trevelyan) when Sir Edward's foul play lay open to the world on August 4th.

If you value your life and happiness, Joseph Wegg, you'll accept Mr. Merrick as a guardian until he resigns of his own accord, and then it's likely you'll wish he hadn't.

This was the second occasion on which he had been forced to resign by unfair treatment at the hands of those who should have been his best support.

Davis resigned during the season and was succeeded by Joe Birmingham, who almost duplicated the feat of George Stovall in 1911, putting new life into the Cleveland team and starting a spurt which made the race for position interesting.

[Footnote: M. Valerius Messala Corvinus, appointed praefectus urbi, resigned within a week.

This resigning of the town into the hands of monks was a fatal stroke to its ancient greatness.