Example Sentences

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"That bump," gulped one retreater, "is just so big."

From Time Magazine Archive

But by a surprising adroitness, it was always made to appear that in all his migrations from party to party, he joined each successive group as a new retreater from the Tories.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

"Sir," the great retreater blurted out, "my views are that our people are tired of war, feel themselves whipped and will not fight."

From The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis by Dixon, Thomas