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
Furious, Michelangelo took French leave of Rome, and it was seven months before he was reconciled.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was sorry, afterwards, that I did not stay down stairs to the last, to see if all the company took French leave like me.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
