He and Ryder made short work of it that evening, when the twins had retired to their tent not long after nightfall.

Barnes finally achieved stable major league career status at the age of 34, an age when most players have long retired.

Computer technology was changing so rapidly it was assumed that programs with two-digit years would be retired long before 2000.

He asked for uniform number 3, and was of course denied, as the Babe's number had been long retired.

Most of the farmers they questioned had retired long before midnight, and had neither seen nor heard anything.

She lounged over to the decanters on the sideboard, left for them by the servants, long retired.

This was a quiet residential street, the houses in darkness, people having long retired for the night and not yet rising.

But only because the bride and groom had already retired to the safety of the lighthouse long before the gulls flew over.

Battle had retired long since to the kitchen from where the odors of coffee and cooking gave mute evidence of his labor.

My wife and I, long retired, pay about $6,000 in school taxes.