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
This time Father Claude Rains is a sort of early-bird Enoch Arden, vagabonding back to mother and the girls after 20 years of French leave just as mother is fixing to marry again.
From Time Magazine Archive
The uproar began when Paris discovered that the gunboats and their Israeli crews had taken French leave of their fitting-out berths in Cherbourg.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Papa," said Miss Montague, "let us all take French leave as soon as the oysters and chicken salad have gone round."
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
