By Crom, Publio,' said Conan, lowering the vessel but retaining it in his hands, 'you dwell in different quarters than of old.

The Third Department recommended in an official memorandum of 1861 that the government strive "to retain in its own hands the standard of the progressive movement which it itself has started".

John nominally co-ruled with his younger brother Henry II, but he retained all the government in his hands.

I had retained her cloak in my hands, and with this wrapped round me I crept into the darkest corner of her cell.

I find I am tired of all this bloodshed and struggle for things that will not lie still, for articles that will not retain their value in my hands.

Temple-Cuninghame was a tenandry in that the land and other property, etc. was let for rent, rather than retained in the superior's own hands.

Lithuanian magnates retained such lands in their hands.

It may well be my decision to retain you in my hands.

In the colonies the judges have retained the power in their own hands, at any rate in those colonies where the profession is 'fused.'

Perhaps that is why they were so glad to welcome Bes since they were too old to care about retaining power in their own hands as they had done during his long absence.