lay aside

• “In London he would always lay aside his work for the day to entertain one of his contemporaries at Oxford, and at Plas Gwynant they found a hospitable welcome.”

  The Life of Froude

• “To claim to study the effects of the "Libido," to which we ascribe the vast powers with which we are familiar, yet fail to seek in it what would correspond to our own best attributes, would be to lay aside our duties as students of human nature.”

  The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

• “As soon as the funeral of Drusus was over, the Senate convened and directed Scaurus to lay aside his censorial duties so that the lustrum could be officially closed in the customary ceremony.”

  The First Man in Rome

• “Labouring at Elbing on that piece of mere drudgery for which Oxenstiern and others had persuaded him to lay aside his Pansophic dreams (ante, p. 228), he had indeed compiled, in four years, a large recast of his Latin Didactics under the title of Novissima Linguarum Methodus, and had returned to Sweden in 1646 to present the mass of manuscript to his employer Ludovicus de Geer.”

  The Life of John Milton

• “Once installed, and in command of her own work-women, she believed she had sufficient tact and ability to attract a fashionable clientèle; and if the business succeeded she could gradually lay aside money enough to discharge her debt to Trenor.”

  Simon & Schuster: The House of Mirth

• ““I have put some of my good friends, leading men in the House of Commons,” says Baillie, July 14, “to move the Assembly to lay aside our Questions for a time, and labour that which is most necessar and all are crying for, the perfecting of the Confession of Faith and Catechise.””

  The Life of John Milton

• “Won't you lay aside your dust-coats and have a cool drink?”

  A Girl of the Limberlost

• “We can now begin to lay aside the word lodge and say house.”

  Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-west, in the autumn of 1856. With information relative to public lands,

• “He also thought he must wear a very heavy padded coat, with long tails and many buttons, but this too proved an error, and a very short experience induced him to lay aside the coat and substitute a short-waisted, single-breasted jacket, which transformation gave the”

  How a one-legged rebel lives : reminiscences of the Civil War,

• “We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others. —”

  A Letter of Mary

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