It was the vain hope, for vain it appears to be, he might have retracted.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
Nevertheless, they seem not to have received correction, nor to have been retracted; and to the sting of them, and of others of like character, is doubtless due the express order of the Ministry under which Cervera quitted his anchorage.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
He had accused her of failing to rise superior to arbitrary social distinctions, and now, standing behind her in the fire-lit dining-room of the rectory, he retracted that accusation once and for all time in his own heart, though her justification came from a contrary direction to that from which it might have been expected.
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman