Example Sentences

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I know what a ticket of leave is.

From The Bars of Iron by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

He was assigned to me when he first got his ticket of leave.

From A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

A few days more, and I became entitled to my ticket of leave.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay

By cheating he got a ticket of leave and returned to Rome.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 by Various

It just—came to me—that day in the schoolroom when you talked about the ticket of leave.

From The Bars of Iron by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)