We know how Shakespeare treats this question: "For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns Which patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?

The alphabet followed, and even the Annual and the Monthly retired, with leave-takings so solemn and precise, that poor Mrs. Legend was in total despair.

I thought thy name a pledge to me Of fondest hope; no less That thou wouldst take as pledges true My kiss and soft caress.

This was not 'a formal taking of leave,' as Hawkins says.

With a brief leave-taking, in the course of which Brown held for an instant the hand of Helena Forrest and found it cold as ice in his grasp, he went away.

She packed her toilet articles; then closed her trunks, casting an inquiring glance over the room with the uneasiness of a hasty leave-taking.

He began a mental stock-taking; he began to examine into the lives about him.

Medical treatment, for its successful issue, is greatly dependent upon a careful, pains-taking, and judicious maternal superintendence.

Suddenly, as she passed, the boy had caught the girl in his arms there on the street corner in the daylight, and had kissed hernot the quick, resounding smack of casual leave-taking, but a long, silent kiss that left the girl limp.

" Such were the reflections of the Signor Gradenigo, as he slowly returned towards his closet, after a ceremonious leave-taking with his guest, in the outer apartment.

For whether you kill me or I you, this will afford us a more comfortable leave-taking, and will save from feebleness and weakness the hand with which either you cut me down or I you.

confound, plague take (the); (used to express strong negation)

Since, therefore, either termination is preferable to the uncertainty which must attend a division of this class of words between the two; and since es has some claim to the preference, as being a better index to the sound; I shall make no exceptions to the principle, that common nouns ending in o preceded by a consonant take es for the plural.

Habits of correct thinking are the chief result of correct note-taking.

Didst take of last year's summer More than summer saw? Or hast thou stolen frost-flakes Secretly at night?

Do you not remember who I am, and what you once did to me while I was sleeping?" The Lion did a double take.

As she then walked through the chamber, her children, Hortense and Eugene, on either side, and greeted all with a last soft look, a last inclination of the head, nothing could be heard but weeping, and even those who rejoiced over her downfall, because they hoped much from the new empress and the new dynasty, were now moved to tears by this silent and yet so eloquent leave-taking.

Hence it is that we have come to regard exceptional risk-taking as the peculiar province of individual enterprise.

The fabric of Magyar rule is far too rotten and corrupt to regard with equanimity any extensive note-taking on the part of the outer world.

My anti-leave-taking foible is certainly not so much affected when I quit the residence of an hotelthat public homethat wearisome resting-placethat epitome of the worldthat compound of gregarious incompatibilitiesthat bazaar of characterthat proper resort of semi-social egotism and unamalgable individualitiesthat troublous haven, where the vessel may ride and tack, half-sheltered, but finds no anchorage.

The exquisitely-ordered machinery of spars, sails, and rigging, bowed towards the barge, as in the act of a graceful leave-taking, and then the light hull glided ahead, leaving the boat to plow through the empty space which it had just occupied.

Through the pleasant harmonious give-and-take of the other instruments, the voice of his violin vibrated with the throbbing passion of a living thing.

The most glorious hero that ever desolated nations might have mouldered into oblivion did (had) not some historian take (taken) him into favor.

Even in hurried leave-takings, even in moments of frantic confusion, he keeps true to this virtue.

The place had been running down so long that every inch of it required immediate taking in hand.