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French leave

[french leev] / ˈfrɛntʃ ˈliv /


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My efforts at French leave me at once inert and exhausted, as though I’ve been dog-paddling in a pool of standing water.

From The New Yorker Aug. 1, 2016

Spain sent Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to make the French leave Florida.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2012

Furious, Michelangelo took French leave of Rome, and it was seven months before he was reconciled.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had hardly expected the predawn arrival; but then, they had hardly expected their President to stir up such a fuss in Canada that he would have to take French leave and hurry home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several broke guard and escaped, taking French leave, returning before the regiment left for the front.

From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by Terrill, J. Newton




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