retreated

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Retreated before the wrath of Robert A. Taft.

From Time Magazine Archive

Retreated back to the water left by the party in the range fourteen miles South-West.

From Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, by Forrest, John

"Retreated, they calls it," he observed, with fine scorn.

From The Hermit of Far End by Pedler, Margaret

Man himself, aghast, Retreated east and west and north and south Before the menace of that twisted mouth, Till Jove, in answer to their prayers, sent Night To veil the dreadful visage from their sight!

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

Retreated twice and compelled to camp at a water in the flat a quarter of a mile north of where I struck the creek.

From McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by McKinlay, John