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Orestes was executed, and Odoacer, resolving to abolish the useless and expensive office of the emperor of the West, compelled the unfortunate Augustulus to resign. So ended, in the year 476, the empire of the West, and the last Roman emperor lived out his life in retirement in the Lucullan villa on the promontory of Misenum. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire III
The game's my own, you know; and the rules of the club give me immunity from a fellow-member." "By Gad, I'll resign! I must see this forest beauty." "Impossible!" "Where's she? How will you prevent?" "By a very easy process. Do you know the bird that shrieks farthest from her young ones when the fowler is at hand? I'll follow her example."
However, on winding one fuse, I found that the mechanism would not go, choked with scoriae; and I had to resign myself to the task of opening and dusting every one: a wretched labour in which I spent that day, like a workman. But about four I threw them to the devil, having done two hundred odd, and then hummed back in the motor to London.
"Such a noble nature; for you can love so passionately, you can war so fiercely, and yet, when convinced that your love would be misery to her you love, can resign it; and yet, when beaten in your war, can so forgive your victor that you are walking in this solitude with him as a friend, knowing that you have but to drop a foot behind him in order to take his life in an unguarded moment; and rather than take his life, you would defend it against an army.
I declare further that, failing male issue of my own body, I resign herewith and abdicate both rank and revenue in favour of this boy, Prosper Paleologus, son of Constantine, and heir in descent of Constantine last Emperor of Constantinople. I lay my hands on him in your presence and bless him.
Why, you are an impostor, sir; and if you are to stop here, I shall resign! What?" "I only wanted to say, sir," continued Dick, quietly, "that this last time I didn't blow a note." "Well, of all the impudence! Then, pray, sir, what was the meaning of that hideous discord?" "I don't know, sir. I presume that someone's instrument is not in tune."
Montgomery was doubtless employed, during this interval, in preparing for what she believed was before her; endeavouring to resign herself and her child to Him in whose hands they were, and struggling to withdraw her affections from a world which she had a secret misgiving she was fast leaving.
If a labourer were hired, and even given good wages, for casting chaff against the wind, I make bold to say, he would soon resign his employment, from sheer inability to work at anything so much opposed to his common sense. A third and a very large class of the labouring population were opposed to task work, because they were able to earn so very little at it.
The pressure applied to him by his employers at home was such as only the highest virtue could have withstood, such as left him no choice except to commit great wrongs, or to resign his high post, and with that post all his hopes of fortune and distinction. The Directors, it is true, never enjoined or applauded any crime. Far from it.
The group of silent men broke, and one of them stepped forward and shook his forefinger at Clay. "No man can talk to me like that," he said, warningly, "and think I'll work under him. I resign here and now." "You what " cried Clay, "you resign?" He whirled his horse round with a dig of his spur and faced them. "How dare you talk of resigning?
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