Elba was ruled by Pisa in the early Middle Ages, but it passed to Genoa in 1290 and in 1399 to the dukes of Piombino, who ceded it to Cosimo I de Medici of Florence in 1548.
When it came time to cook it, I admit that I ceded the stove to my husband.
While, as I think I've indicated above, I ceded ground to no one in the breadth of what I was prepared to smoke – when it came to deaccessioning it took days to empty my tobacco cellar of all its exotica, from Indonesian clove cigarettes to Burmese cheroots via Vietnamese hand-rolling tobacco − and that's just the south-east Asian section.
I ceded the stage to my colleagues, and sat just off to the side.
I ceded control of the Inner Sanctum to a barbarous horde of 10-year-olds.
Rather than risk mutiny, I ceded the stove to their father, who wielded a hot pan and a secret weapon: "James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking".
Erik's settlement with Pope Boniface VIII (1303) enabled him to resume Danish conquests along the northern border of the Holy Roman Empire, and in 1304 the emperor Albert I ceded to Denmark all lands north of the Elbe River.
But our Metro department was interested in writing about the legendary Mr. Bergman, and so I ceded ground, but not before bewailing the lost opportunity and asking my Metro comrades to pass along some fluffy sports ideas.
Eight came instantly; I thought a long time before including "Voyage to Italy" and "Gertrud," not because they're any less worthy than the others, but because I ceded to the principle of spontaneity and left the instant-eight in place and figured that anything else was automatically to be pondered at length.
As dawn's light seeped through the one window, I ceded the room to my sleeping friend and exited onto a little alleyway, where a large group of monks, in orange robes and shaved heads, had gathered for a morning buffet put out for them by residents.
What I ceded to the control of the curators was the kinds of works that they were selecting.
