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
The colonel is on French leave from Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Better stake the animals down, for the first two or three nights, so they won't take French leave," advised the guide.
From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Frank Gee Patchin
