French leave
Example Sentences
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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
"If the French leave, there will be no protection," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The colonel is on French leave from Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Many persons on board had never been back to Louisville since they took French leave of the same place; whilst others had numerous friends and relations whom they greatly desired to see.
From Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro by Fowler, Charles H.