When, in the fable of The Two Pigeons, he said: "Absence is the greatest of ills, ...

You will always be in my heart, and absence will be to me a new fire to consume me; but to you, absence is the end of affection.

Among these illustrious emigrants the most distinguished were the Duchesse de Chevreuse and the Ducs de Soubise and de la Valette, all of whom were surrounded by a considerable number of exiles of inferior rank; and as the Queen-mother saw them gathered about her, she easily persuaded herself that their voluntary absence from France was a convincing proof of the general unpopularity of her own archenemy Richelieu.

Absence of Declan's name from the Acts of Patrick is a negative argument.

The absence of the teaching of English literature in our schools is, when we come to think of it, an almost amazing phenomenon.

You will always be in my heart, and absence will be to me a new fire to consume me; but to you, absence is the end of affection.

What is wanting is, that we should recognise a corresponding attachment to nationality as legitimate in every other people, and understand that its absence is a privation of the greatest good.

The absence of sulphureted hydrogen in samples of unfiltered effluent, which have been kept for about six weeks in stoppered bottles, is also a fact of importance.

Pain is felt to be something positive, and hence its absence is the true standard of happiness.

Absence is the very air of passion, and all the best description is in memoriam.

The fact is that the Dean's absence from England more than twenty years ago during two successive winters was a sad necessity, caused by the appearance of symptoms of grave disease, from which he has now, under God's blessing, perfectly recovered.

I am anxious to get our people back from Hut Point, mainly on account of the two ponies; with so much calm weather there should have been no difficulty for the party in keeping up its supply of blubber; an absence of which is the only circumstance likely to discomfort it.

There is at command a practically unlimited variety of vegetarian dishes, savoury enough to tempt the most fastidious, and in which the absence of "carcase" may, if need be, defy detection.

Whence it followed that the absence of the finger was an additional point tending to implicate Mr. Jellicoe.

And long I dare not stay for feare my absence Be cause of their revolt unto Navar.

Every season of the year was dangerous, and the absence of the enemy was no reason why any man could esteem himself a moment in safety.

There is nothing in the settled portion of Western Australia equal to it, either in extent or quality; but the absence of permanent water is a great drawback...

And now to decide whether this is really so; whether mankind do desire nothing for itself but that which is a pleasure to them, or of which the absence is a pain; we have evidently arrived at a question of fact and experience, dependent, like all similar questions, upon evidence.

[he could not say Kennan] who's a g'un to cook for ye, and ye can't get no potatusses?" as if the absence of a cook and the lack of potatoes were the summing up of all earthly privations.

The absence of a strait-waistcoat is a negation; but it is a useful condition for the activity of sane men.

The absence of fame is obscurity, which is only a negative; but loss of honor is shame, which is a positive quality.

The absence of news from his friends, and from the world to which they belonged, was the most terrible burden of all.

A long absence is a dangerous experiment even for friends, much more for lovers.

The noble brow, the well-formed and active limbs, the firm and yet light step; above all, the total absence of any thing resembling the consciousness of personal beauty, and the open and candid look, which seemed desirous of knowing nothing that was hidden, and conscious that she herself had nothing to hide, were traits not unworthy of the goddess of wisdom and of chastity.

The absence of what is needless or unsuggested, is no ellipsis, though some grave men have not discerned this obvious fact.