Concede, as in chess

Usage examples of resign.

He must needs weave his phantasy into some quietly melancholy fabric of didactic or allegorical cast, in which his meekly resigned cynicism may display with naive moral appraisal the perfidy of a human race which he cannot cease to cherish and mourn despite his insight into its hypocrisy.

But the first two appointees, Henry Kissinger and former Democratic senator George Mitchell, resigned within days, citing potential conflicts of interest.

Lord Beryn would arrive at court to answer the formal charges, Rhodry resigned himself to keeping a close watch over the tieryn and hoping for the best.

Snowden was forced to resign as chairman of GTech when a jury found he tried to bribe British billionaire Richard Branson.

Holtz was so upset he told me that he was going to call Frank Broyles and resign.

Peeling clear of the wood, curling tighter and tighter, and finally crumbling into small bits with what must have been malignly silent suddenness, the portrait of Joseph Curwen had resigned forever its staring surveillance of the youth it so strangely resembled, and now lay scattered on the floor as a thin coating of fine blue-grey dust.

College policy that I have proposed, I have little choice but to resign the Mastership of Porterhouse.

Within a mere sixteen months, that president resigned to accept an office in the state government, and Meany decided to run for his position.

I endured a few minutes of leg-pulling from Della and Lil, was congratulated by Josephus in a melodiously outdated rap, envied by Jonie, and caused Fredo moans of outright grief by resigning.

Dantes gazed on the man who could thus philosophically resign hopes so long and ardently nourished with an astonishment mingled with admiration.

He therefore appeared before Aunt Chloe with a touchingly subdued, resigned expression, like one who has suffered immeasurable hardships in behalf of a persecuted fellow-creature,--enlarged upon the fact that Missis had directed him to come to Aunt Chloe for whatever might be wanting to make up the balance in his solids and fluids,--and thus unequivocally acknowledged her right and supremacy in the cooking department, and all thereto pertaining.

Yesl She could have raised her voice after resigning, gone public with her doubts about Montayne, instead of keeping silent.

Company, 385 resigns, 467-468 Mercredi, Pierre, 273 Muskeg Limited, 324 M6tis, 52-55, 58-59, 62-67, 68, Mutual Trust, 543 73,75,91,93-96, 163-166 Myers, Gustavus, 146 Mkis Bill of Rights, 65-66 Michener, Roland, 461, 463 Nagle, Edmund Barry, 282 Middleton, Gen.

Having caught your fish, you may cook him in a thousand ways, but it is doubtful whether, even with the finest sauce, a pompano will taste half as good as the infantile muskellunge, several pounds under the legal weight, fried unskilfully in pork fat by a horny-handed woodsman, kneeling before an open fire, eighteen minutes after you had given up all hope of having fish for dinner, and had resigned yourself to the dubious prospect of salt pork, eggs, and coffee which any self-respecting coffee-mill would fail to recognize.

The public has so long listened to these funereal solos that if a few of the poets thus impatient to be gone were to go, their departure would perhaps be attended by that resigned speeding which the proverb invokes on behalf of the parting guest.