Fail to persevere

Usage examples of quit.

His wounded antics, ranging from pitiful entreaties to furious ridicule, had forced her to quit her job.

A grave-looking man, of a melancholy and severe aspect, and attired in a loose robe of black velvet, was seated alone in a chamber, the windows of which opened upon the Fountain Court, which we have just quitted.

At the close of the third week Berry laid a pair of letters, bearing the Raynham post-mark, on the breakfast-table, and, after reading one attentively, the baronet asked his son if he was inclined to quit the metropolis.

The nuns had quitted the choir, and Mignon and Barre came to the grating and told them that they had just completed the rite, and that, thanks to their conjurations, the two afflicted ones were now quite free from evil spirits.

Just then the blast of trumpets rang out above them from the bartizan they had just quitted.

He is sure to receive the bastinade, who forsakes his colours or quits his post.

Henri Bouvier had provided for her in ice-filled tubs, Silkie threw her hands up and decided to call it quits.

Hundreds passed near the granite columns, as if they expected to see the Bravo occupying his accustomed stand, in audacious defiance of the proclamation, for so long and so mysteriously had he been permitted to appear in public, that men had difficulty in persuading themselves he would quit his habits so easily.

Ross could afford to quit driving a bulldozer and begin full-time writing.

The practice to which we object is the too common method in Ireland of extorting the last farthing which the tenant is willing to give for land rather than quit it: and the machinery by which such practice is carried into effect is that of the middleman.

Like most folks around here, I done holp him so much already I cant quit now.

With a small advance for the stories and no new income in sight, the Nabokovs decided to quit Menton for a less popular spot.

Heather is currently im mersed in the mad scramble of the second week of classes, and my new hire just quit this morning.

It became a mesne borough by the charter granted by John in 1201, which provided that the town should be a free borough, the burgesses to be free and quit of all tolls, and made William de Briwere overlord.

It was not likely that, having certainly made some bargain with de Berquin, and being moneyless, they had quitted his service so soon.