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Meanings of retained only in English

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Usage of retained only in English
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He retained only consciousness enough to fight like a dying wild beast.
Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis / Two Plebe Midshipmen at ...
2
As a result, the ID retained only four seats in the National Assembly.
The South African
3
He retained only a portion of the amount, and sent me the remainder.
At the Mercy of Tiberius
4
Of course, we had thrown off our jackets, and retained only our trowsers.
In the Eastern Seas
5
I have retained only two shares in him out of sixty.'
Silks
6
Auguste had retained only the ivory,-whetherfrom sentiment or necessity I will not venture.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
7
Of his military household he retained only two Mexican officers-ColonelOrmachea and Colonel Lamadrid.
Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Inte...
8
He decided finally that the bridge had been retained only out of respect to history.
Cities in Flight
9
The government consequently retained only the relatively small sum arising from casual and territorial dues.
Canada under British Rule 1760-1900
10
But as time passed I lost this dread, and retained only the precision of the image.
Tales of Men and Ghosts
11
She retained only a European and Asiatic empire.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Da...
12
The remaining controls will be retained only as long as they are needed to protect the public.
State of the Union Addresses
13
These sums ranged in amount from five to twenty thousand dollars, of which we retained only one-half.
The Confessions of Artemas Quibble / Being the Ingenuous and Unv...
14
I had, however, while living in Maryland, dispensed with the Augustus Washington, and retained only Frederick Bailey.
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
15
In a few days the English retained only that town, Amboy, and Paulus Hook, in all New Jersey.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders
16
He retained only the shape of a human being (all his characteristic features having totally disappeared).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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