Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent utterances of his given in the course of a newspaper interview, wherein Mr. Wilde shows so much discernment and just appreciation that it almost seems that a mere statement of his case to him by an impartial friend would convince him of his error and induce him to withdraw from his unfortunate enterprise. When questioned as to his famous opinion about the Atlantic, he explained it (we are told) as follows: "Oh, that unfortunate saying! It will become historic, I suppose," and the long curls shook, and the whole frame of the aesthete quivered, as he enjoyed a hearty...
...which he was. Mr. Hawley had previously been a student at the university, and at the close of the term last spring had received an honorable dismissal. When he renewed his application for membership in September last the question was asked him if he had not, since his withdrawal from the college, connected himself with a Greek-letter society. His reply was that he had, and that he was then a member in good standing. The faculty thereupon called his attention to a regulation of the college, adopted by the trustees, wherein it was expressly set forth that no student...
...Grant wrote yesterday to Senator Miller of New York asking him to withdraw his name from the bill introduced in the senate by Mr. Miller incorporating the Nicaraguan Canal...
...friends. Let us depart. We have heard enough. Let us withdraw while we are still wrapped in this nameless, holy balm, - this light and this sweetness...
...daughter, you make me very happy," he said. "I am now going to receive Yung's answer; and I am glad that I need not withdraw my proposal...