recede
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Recede he could not; neither could he conceal his embarrassment.
From The Delight Makers by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse
Recede not, frown not, rather let us be Deprived of being than of Liberty, Let fraud or malice blacken all our crimes, No disaffection stains these peaceful climes.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
Recede as far as he would from the gross foreground places, Helen's choice of him, Helen's love—for after a fashion, Helen must have loved him—gave him a final and unquestionable value.
From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
As the waves after ebb drawing seaward, When their hollows are full of the night, So the birds that flew singing to me-ward Recede out of sight.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
I can not Recede now, though it shake the very walls Which frown above us.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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