Evadne was constantly busy, either at private or hospital nursing, and very short were the furloughs which she spent under her uncle's roof.

I can't really stuff another pin or needle in, so pray keep what you have for my furlough.

The dispersion of the rest of their companions from Richmond was accounted for by furloughs granted them so soon as they reached the provost-marshal's office.

The man whose place he takes is home on furlough, and I've looked up his work in the Annual Report of the Foreign Missions Board.

Oh, yes; insufficient until it hurts like the toothache, yet somehow as though I were carrying on here, not in place of the man who has gone home on furlough, but in place of Jesus Christ himself.

These are of various sorts, from the great resorts at Aix les Bains, where our soldiers can spend their furloughs, to the hostess houses at the cantonments on this side.

And Dorothea, resting her fan on her lap, let these lines fall from her, not consciously quoting, but musing on each word as it fell: "Brutus and Cato might discharge their souls, And give them furloughs for another world; But we, like sentries, are obliged to stand In starless nights, and wait the appointed hour.

permit, warrant, brevet, precept, sanction, authority, firman; hukm^; pass, passport; furlough, license, carte blanche

Discharges and furloughs might be bought, and therefore the divisions were never up to their full numbers; the men were put into quarters in summer, and, as the officers plundered on a large, the common soldiers plundered on a small, scale.

In the standing camp, as usually happens when a war is tedious rather than severe, furloughs were easily obtained, more so by the officers, however, than the common soldiers.

The Crawleys, the Wilmots, and Captain Gordon are going back after furlough; Mr. Brand and G. and I are going only for pleasure and the cold weather.

From that time, during the whole period of the summer campaign, a great number of them slunk away from the standards without furloughs, while Capua was the only retreat of the deserters.

Most of the open cars were empty, barring occasional gun carriages on the way home for repairs; in the closed freight cars lay a few wounded first line men, a half a dozen male nurses, and some privates on furlough.

After the battles of El Caney and San Juan Hill, many wounded American soldiers who were able to travel were given furloughs to their respective homes in the United States, and Lieutenant Thomas Roberts, of this city, was one of them.

Many of the English passengers were army officers returning to India from furloughs or going out for service, and officers' families who had been spending the hot months in England.

My furlough had nearly expired; and, as I, was to leave the village the next morning to join my regiment, then on the point of being shipped off at Portsmouth, for India, several of my old companions spent the evening with me, in the Marquess of Granby.

So soon as each London furlough was expired, he returned to Ireland, jaded and dispirited, and there took delight in nursing his melancholy; in pining for the amusements of the metropolis; in shunning and sneering at the society around him; and in abusing his native bogs and his fellow-countrymen in verse.

It might have been during one of these periodical furloughs from service that Aaron performed the journey to Horeb.

It might have been during one of these periodical furloughs from service that Aaron performed the journey to Horeb.

He is hunting in the West, on furlough; she is here alone.

When, however, the majority of the soldiers had departed, some on furloughs because they were not far from Italy, and others elsewhere to their own possessions, the natives took advantage of this fact and unexpectedly attacked him.

Last day of the last furlough, by J. D. Salinger.

It was to bid us good by; his furlough was over, he was to return to West Point on Monday.

" Even this was only a furlough, for in six years they were both in public life again.

When Captain Gilbert returned, after his furlough-romance, to India, he took his wife and child with him.