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Significados de ignominious retreat em inglês

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Uso de ignominious retreat em inglês
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An ignominious retreat is required, but the others accept this with wry humour.
The Irish Times
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Everywhere the Austrians were beaten, and driven off in ignominious retreat.
History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's...
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To refuse meant ignominious retreat to Dunsterville, and from that her pride revolted.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
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He even smiled as he thought of the bear's fright and its ignominious retreat.
Glen of the High North
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No alternative was left to us except ignominious retreat.
A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the ...
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He is about to beat an ignominious retreat.
The Sea-Gull
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A grim smile went down the Captain's table as Molly beat a hasty and ignominious retreat.
Molly Brown's Orchard Home
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The ignominious retreat of Xerxes was in marked contrast to the pomp and magnificence of his advance into Greece.
Mosaics of Grecian History
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Do you suppose I am going to make an ignominious retreat now, when we have got so far advanced?
Four Girls at Chautauqua
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The next second she turned, and beat a hurried and ignominious retreat to the sheltered side of the green mound.
A Popular Schoolgirl
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I came perilously close to an ignominious retreat-andbefore ever I had an idea of what I was running from!
The Paternoster Ruby
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We had not got more than fifty yards from the hotel when we were forced to beat a hasty and ignominious retreat.
The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen...
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Micum and Alec beat an ignominious retreat back to the street, but with the knowledge that the old woman had eluded them.
Casket of Souls
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They had to make an ignominious retreat, but Balzac insisted that this really was the place and muttered maledictions on the old woman.
Women in the Life of Balzac
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In this attempt he was disappointed, for the Chinese kept better guard than he expected, and he was compelled to make an ignominious retreat.
China
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For the past few weeks I have been haunted by a vision of myself beating an ignominious retreat, after having altogether failed in my mission.
The Lady of the Basement Flat
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