" She then retired to her sitting-room, and from a chair placed where she could look straight on to them, gazed at her battlements, secured to her now completely, with calm pleasure.
A lump came into her throat, and she hastily retired behind the pages of her uplifted Latin grammar to hide the tears in her eyes.
The wienerwurst stands are required by law to keep a news ticker in 'em; and the doughnuts are examined every four years by a retired steamboat inspector.
After asking me if I had ever had a grand uncle with curvature of the spine or a cousin with swelled ankles, the two doctors retired to the bathroom and sat on the edge of the bath tub for their consultation.
The ghost retired from the stage quietly and peacefully, after doing its little turn, and I went to sleep again.
Jim was sitting across the table talking to his half-uncle, a retired naval officer, whose name you have often seen in the accounts of doings in the capital.
But the night remained clear, and Huck closed his watch and retired to bed in an empty sugar hogshead about twelve.
The retribution that followed every vengeful success was so sweeping and majestic that the boys always retired from the field badly worsted.
But at last the battle was done, and the forces retired with weaker and weaker threatenings and grumblings, and peace resumed her sway.
And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents.
If we assume that a couple, aged 30, is able to put away this much every month until they retired at age 67, adjusted for inflation, and assuming a return of 9% (just below the stock market's historical average), they would have an equivalent of $484,000 in their nest egg come retirement time.
When I was in high school, dad retired and set up a food stand on the street near my school.
Richard Vetter, a retired researcher at the University of California, Riverside, claimed the entomology prize for gathering case studies on arachnophobia among insect experts.
Jack Ma, who retired last fall from the daily operations of Alibaba to focus on philanthropy, saw his net worth fall to $43.
Annie Mae had become a family and children's worker for the state of Alabama and retired in May of 1996.
With his wife and children he retired to a farming village south of the Yangtze River.
In 1071 he was retired with the title of grand preceptor of the crown prince.
: He became the prefect of Yao' an in Yunnan Province, but retired from office in protest at the age of 54 after a 20-odd-year official career.
Legend states that Liu Bei, then a minor military figure, heard of Zhuge Liang's great wisdom and came three times to the wilderness retreat to which Zhuge had retired to seek him out as an adviser.
After a nearly 20-year military career, he finally retired to a retreat in beautiful Shangrao county, where he spent his time reading and creating the ci that were to bring him lasting fame.
