Ten years' absence scatters friends as October scatters swallows.

For she thinks of royal Chico, and her face with tears is wet, For she knows that absence oft will make the fondest heart forget.

The poor care of the young children may be attributed largely to the absence of a white mistress, an absence characteristic of Jamaica plantations.

They feel like the woman who in writing to her husband said, they say (or don't say) that absence conquers love; for the longer you stay away the better I love you.

During his absence disasters had overtaken France.

Just in proportion as the above appearances are present and entire, health may be said to exist; and just in proportion to their partial or total absence disease will have usurped its place.

Turne, turne agayn, and give this earthly frame Essentiall power, which for thine absence dyes.

It is quite unlikely that a resting state of the comma bacillus will ever be discovered; and, moreover, its absence harmonizes with our knowledge of cholera etiology.

My five years absence hath kept me a stranger So much to all the occurents of my Country, As you shall bind me for some short relation To make me understand the present times.

XIX Lo! from thy love's enchanting bowers Rizván's bright gardens fresher grow; From the fierce heat thine absence kindles, Gehenna's flames intenser glow.

One did not go to the class to learn but in order not to get this absence mark, for the class was reduced to reciting the lesson from memory, reading the book, and at the most answering a few abstract, profound, captious, enigmatic questions.

I finally ventured homenot without some fear, however, of the Gobel familyand was delighted to learn that during my absence mother had had an interview with Mr. Gobel, and having settled the difficulty with him, the two families had become friends again, and I may state, incidentally, that they ever after remained so.

During his absence observations were taken and the rates of the chronometers worked up.

Rather thy lenient numbers pour On those, whom secret griefs devour, Bid be still the throbbing hearts Of those whom death or absence parts, And, with some softly whisper'd air, Sooth the brow of dumb despair.

that I am come so soon, To hinder her of some appointed guests, That in my absence revel in my house: She weeps to see me in her company, And, were I absent, she would laugh with joy.

Il résultait souvent de cette absence du beau sexe, le plus bel ornement du théâtre, les scènes les plus ridicules.

In Mike's absence things had been going badly with Wrykyn.

But during his absence trouble had been steadily growing in England.

If Dodd could have read my thoughts that evening, as I sat in solitary majesty by the fireside, he would have been satisfied that his society was not unappreciated, nor his absence unfelt.

My foes increase, thy cruelty makes absence bitterer still, But naught can shake my constancy, and none can do me ill.

We returned to the party by 3.0 p.m., and were glad to find that during our absence water had been found in shallow clay-pans a mile to the westward, to which we moved over and encamped.

SILENCE, m., absence de bruit.