6055 examples of absence in sentences

Who in thy absence ever fears the worst, Lest some mischance befall your royal grace.

Nay, good Sir Richard, at my kind intreat, For all the love I bear your noble house, Let not your absence kindle further wrath.

The brave little Jew!" Two years later Lamb tells Manning of Braham's absence from London, adding: "He was a rare composition of the Jew, the gentleman, and the angel; yet all these elements mixed up so kindly in him that you could not tell which preponderated."

" The explanation of this note is that "Janus Weathercock"one of the pseudonyms of Thomas Griffiths Wainewrightafter a long absence from its pages, had sent to the previous month's London Magazine, May, 1822, an amusing letter of criticism of that periodical, commenting on some of its regular contributors.

With this essay Lamb made his reappearance in the magazine, after eight months' absence.

Hither Swift came, as amanuensis, in 1689, and he was there, with intervals of absence, in 1699, when Temple died, "and with him," Swift wrote in his Diary, "all that was good and amiable among men.

In the absence of a file of The Albion, which I have been unable to find, it is impossible to give exact dates or to reproduce any of Lamb's other contributions.

" Emily blushed, and endeavored to laugh at her own absence of mind; but she would have given the world to know who Marian was.

He had arrived during their absence, and immediately sought the baronet's family.

Mrs. Wilson had casually mentioned, in the absence of her niece, the interposition of Denbigh between her and death; and Mrs. Fitzgerald was so much pleased at the noble conduct of the gentleman, as to express a desire to see him; but the impressions of the moment appeared to have died away, a nothing more was said by either lady on the subject, and it was apparently forgotten.

It may seem a somewhat crude treatment to introduce a mother mourning for her burnt child, and a son weeping over the body of his father; but the naturalness of the language and the absence of extravagance must be commended.

If they, suspecting but this fellowes absence, Should try the Citie and attempt their friends How dangerous might Pisoes favour be? Nimph.

I had felt perfectly safe in leaving it there, for I knew that nothing on earthshort of a bomb explosioncould tempt the good creature out of my dressing-room in my absence, and that even if a bomb did explode, she would try to be blown up with my jewel box clutched in her hands.

Nobody (except Ivor, concerning whom I'd given orders) would be let in so late at night, during my absence, not even Raoul himself; so if he had come to reproach me, or break with me, he would have to stand outside the locked gate till I appeared.

I rely on your saying nothing of our absence, except to explain to the two nearest sentinels who we are, and to be on the look-out for us, against the moment we may return.

He did not hesitate about disobeying orders, or even to risk his life, in order to secure his money; but, determined to come out, he had the forethought and care to bring a pail, in order to supply the wants of those who were now crowded within the stockade, and who were too much accustomed to this particular sort of food, not to suffer from its absence.

But he remembered that his long absence must excite surprise in the mind of his bride, and might, perhaps, connect itself with the mysterious singer of the preceding evening.

Master Gripe, I was coming to desire that I might have your absence at my wedding; for I hear say you are very liberal grown o' late.

No, gentle Gustus, Your absence is the only thing I wish, Lest I infect you with my company.

What shall I do? by my troth, anatomise his purse in his absence.

and in your absence Your uncle here and I have been bethinking, What gift 'twixt us we might bestow on you,

They resided far some time at the court of Kublai-khan, the great emperor of the Mongals or Tartars; and, returning to Venice in 1269, they found that the wife of Nicolo had died during their absence, leaving a son Marco, the author of the following travels, of whom she was pregnant at the time of their departure.

And even the most advanced notion we have of GOD is but attributing the same simple ideas which we have got from reflection on what we find in ourselves, and which we conceive to have more perfection in them than would be in their absence; attributing, I say, those simple ideas to Him in an unlimited degree.

And thus there were five Englishmen in the island, which caused great differences, as my faithful Spaniard gave me a perfect account of, in the following manner: You cannot, Sir, but remember the embassy you sent me about, and what a disappointment we met with, by your absence, at our return.

After three weeks absence we arrived at our habitation.

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