He retreats to an indoor batting cage, where every night, he prepares for an opportunity that may never come.

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But Mr Menino seems justifiably worried that if he retreats, South Boston's leaders will find a way to stall the waterfront construction and New Boston.

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He arranges the cake on the feeding post, and retreats to a hide.

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Wilberforce may attack the complacency of the rich who refuse to hear about the suffering of the slaves, but Apted is candid enough to demonstrate that the privileges of wealth can be delightful: now and then, Wilberforce retreats to an estate in Yorkshire, where he lies on the grass in ecstatic communion with nature, and entertains the local poor in his fancy dining room.

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But he would be more inclined to buy mining shares on price retreats and book some profits on price surges.

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When he dies, of an overdose, she survives, barely, and retreats, pregnant with his child, to a house on the beach in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, on the Atlantic coast, near Spain.

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Skaggs goes on to explain that during those years, they also had what he refers to as "admittedly contrived occasions" such as bipartisan House retreats where members of Congress and their families would get together to socialize.

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He planned to stay away from the Internet when he was released a decision inspired by a leader in the Society for Creative Anachronism, who on group retreats cordoned off an area of the campsite and called it Enchanted Ground.

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