A fierce, icy wind whipped up the lake's fiery red surface and forced us to beat a hasty retreat from our lakeside walk. |
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He found the attention too much and beat a hasty retreat to the States, where he spent a year writing songs in happy anonymity. |
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Upon reaching the end section of low beddings we turned tail and beat a hasty retreat! |
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In fact, he beat a hasty retreat at the first opportunity promising to get the bid and a list of references to me later in the week. |
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Challenged to a repeat bet over the next decade, Ehrlich beat a hasty retreat. |
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And in summer noisy miners, opportunistic and wary as sneak-thieves, beat a hasty retreat from the raspberries as we approach. |
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Clocking that they were being watched they beat a hasty retreat. |
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Shortly after the budget, the minister went to Toronto but had to beat a hasty retreat. |
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Happily he had to beat a hasty retreat but his report still bears some of the repressive character that lay behind that proposal. |
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More than a mile from the explosion I tripped over several 20mm live shells only to beat a hasty retreat to report the incident. |
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Drill books encouraged the horseman to save one of the pistols should he need to beat a hasty retreat. |
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Jonathan then lunged for the boy at the door, who quickly turned around and beat a hasty retreat away from the house, forgetting his flowers and his car. |
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All it took was for China to buy a few tens of billions of sovereign debt from Euroland's southern periphery and the short sellers were squeezed, forcing them to beat a hasty retreat. |
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For fear of getting caught, we beat a hasty retreat. |
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President Abbas himself beat a hasty retreat. |
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The federal government was thus forced to beat a hasty retreat and assured the states that it would not do anything to disturb the existing arrangements. |
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Bragg, the rebel governor and the rest of the troops beat a hasty retreat. |
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Local politicians began to beat a hasty retreat. |
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Flooded with anguished comments, the institute beat a hasty retreat. |
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While the electronic snake may simply bite you, the spider on the other hand, could suddenly attack and make you beat a hasty retreat without your ball. |
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