French leave

Example Sentences

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It is unlike any other form of death, for an unwritten language is even as a breath of air which when it is spent leaves no trace behind.

From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Caine, Hall, Sir

As the little golfing company moves along to the adjoining tee more of these spent leaves come fluttering sadly down.

From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry

How often he had reconstructed that scene—the gray, sullen rain pattering on the spent leaves, the quick-rushing sound of a body in flight, the sudden leap of a soul toward greater freedom!

From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell

The most common form was the use of spent leaves, i.e. leaves which had been infused.

From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry