congé

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C'était avec le cœur bien gros j'ai pris congé de vous, Sire, après les beaux et heureux jours que nous avons passés avec vous et que vous avez su nous rendre si agréables.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Benson, Arthur Christopher

Left to herself, she would make light of such a suitor, and give him his congé with a brusque promptitude.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

Merely to say that they were an itinerant company of actors and actresses would be sufficient to ensure them a speedy congé from Blanford.

From His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by Wells, David Dwight

On the vacancy of a see, the cathedral chapter applied to the crown for a congé d'élire.

From History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by Froude, James Anthony

"Oh, she gave me my congé next morning, but I didn't care, for I had decided to come back to the States as soon as that month's work was up."

From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John