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Romance Renounced A lot of people are talking about the return of respectability.

From Time Magazine Archive

For him she fled from soft repose, Renounced a parent's care; He sails to crush his country's foes, She wanders in despair!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Renounced thoughts of Italy: 'Europe bleeding, and especially France and Prussia, how go idly touring?'

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Carlyle, Thomas

They for her Renounced all else, the banquet and the dance, And nuptial rites revered.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

Nor he alone; a host of saints Renounced the world, and nobly chose That heavenly inheritance Which neither death nor sorrow knows.

From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various