But the glaciers are retreating.
He watched her retreating figure.
"She's not retreating," he says. "She's reloading!"
Why doesn't he stand and fight instead of retreating?"
Through a telescope we watched the unfolding drama of a puffin on a ledge, peering over the edge, thinking better of it, retreating, advancing, retreating.
The heavens were placid, but still luminous with the light at the retreating sun.
Ice on the Qinghai plateau is retreating at the rate of seven per cent every year.
The enemy is retreating behind the front line to prepare for another attack.
"Don't you dare touch this bonnet," she said, clutching it by the bow and retreating.
"Another lamp," she cried to the retreating servant, while Janey bent over to straighten her mother's cap.
A week later students in the high Arctic reported that a glacier in Svalbard that had been retreating at an average annual rate of 20 metres since 1926 was now retreating by 40 metres a year.
He jabs it with the business end of the spear and it yelps, retreating, baring its fangs.
It was not till the rays of the sun had absorbed the young stranger's retreating figure on the hill.
Also bearing the scars of battle, the nearby central hospital, used as a base by retreating Gaddafi fighters.
The idiom "no turning back" means to describe a cause that is justified by morally advancing and never retreating.
Barclays is not the only bank retreating from fund management (though it is retaining a 19.9% stake in the renamed BlackRock Global Investors).
Finding a hard bug requires reading, running, ruminating, and sometimes retreating. If you get stuck on one of these activities, try the others.
On Sunday, in addition to Terry's dismissal, Cole was one of five Chelsea players booked - for not retreating 10 yards at a free kick.
Seeing that the Jin troops were retreating, the Chu troops thought that the enemy troops were afraid, and began chasing them.
I do know that we ended up retreating to Bad Gandersheim, in the Harz Mountains, where we stayed with a distant cousin.
The Commando APC can be very effective during times when your opponent is distracted or retreating walker units. Not to mention having a more than handy Anti Infantry weapon.
But now I only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night - wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world.
It was not till the rays of the sun had absorbed the young stranger's retreating figure on the hill that she shook off her temporary sadness and answered her would-be partner in the affirmative.
When the CH4-air mixture approaches the lean fuel state, the flame speed accordingly decreases, the flame cone rising and retreating downstream to the area with lower flow speed.
But he told his fellow Democrats that they still have large majorities in both houses of Congress, and that they need to govern, instead of "running for the hills [retreating]."
In the novel Shui Hu Cbuan, the drill master Hung, challenging Lin Chung to a fight on Chai Chin's estate, shouts, "Come on!Come on!Come on!" In the end it is the retreating Lin Chung who spots Hung's weak point and floors him with one blow.
All things look open, think well, get up and put down, learn to forbear the nature, know how to restrain the desire, the reason of retreating, the degree of humility, your universe will be broad and vast, only ten thousand beforehand repair the morality, the health will be furious, the end of the branch, the distraction of the s
