Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...youth whom they took to be green. With a blow he laid one of the bold sophs upon his back. In the melee that followed the light was overturned and extinguished, when the freshman grasped a chair and the sophomores were compelled to beat a hasty and disastrous retreat. The next morning the freshman was called before the president of the college, who inquired the cause of the disturbance in his room the preceding evening. The freshman narrated the circumstances of the case very minutely, and the president listened with the greatest attention. When the freshman had finished, the president...
...were greeted with a storm of stamping, which the hissing of some of the more sensible and courteous men was unable to subdue. The gentlemen were much bewildered at this strange greeting, and being very naturally unable to divine the cause of the uproar, beat a hasty retreat. Now, although we have a great deal of sympathy for the delicate sensibilities of those men who are unable to bear with equanimity the sight of hats, we feel that a more sensible way for them to act would be to get up and leave the hall, and not convey to strangers...
...investigation, appealing to the fair-minded men and women of the city, and challenging to the proof any one who had any charge to make against the consul, touching his fitness for the consulship. The directorate appointed a committee of investigation. But at this point the consul seemed to retreat from the unfamiliar field of open contest, into the haze of secret sessions, and did all he could, through friends, to stifle an investigation...
...that never, no matter what his position, could he be open to the accusation of turning his back on a friend; the other, in being able to boast in time of war that all his wounds were in front, no matter how often he was struck while beating a retreat...
...pillars and railing played at kaleidoscope. My vision grew dim. I clutched the handles till they grew thin under my grasp. I threw my whole soul into that one moment. It was too much for the machine. It veered both ways at the same time, then concluded to retreat, which it did with remarkable celerity. But I had made all my arrangements for going ahead, and found it difficult to change my entire plan of proceeding so in the twinkling of an eye, as it were. Consequently I kept right on, as if nothing had happened; that is, I kept...