Bismarck sent me a telegram regretting the absence of the godmother from the ceremony.

During his temporary absence from the room the baby set itself on fire.

After a twenty days absence in St. Louis, pleasantly spent with my family, I returned to Sheridan, and there learned that my mule and horse had been seized by the government.

An adventurous vagabond once entered his house, during his temporary absence on a journey to Buenos Ay

We had come to consider him as the head and front of the Minute Boys, and his absence at such an important time seemed odd, to say the least.

I have leave of absence for twenty-four hours, and was just goin' inter teown.

As soon as the bail was given, Appius also sent a message to the decemvirs in command of that army, ordering them to refuse leave of absence to Virginius.

I don't like it, Barnes!" To Lady Ann Newcome the Colonel's society was more welcome than to her sister-in-law, and the affectionate gentleman never tired of doing kindnesses for her children, and consoled himself as best he might for Clive's absences with his nephews and nieces, especially with Ethel, for whom his admiration conceived at first sight never diminished.

Owing to his poverty he has been unable to visit Constance, and when he appears before her in his gay clothes he excuses his fortnight's absence by saying, I have been 'out of Town to see a little thing that's fallen to me upon the Death of a Grandmother.'

At least let me know what your intentions are before starting, and make your absences as irregular and sudden as possible.

Another offence was absence without leave, which was considered as desertion.

The evening before we were to set out for the South of France, I was at my lodgings, unpacking and repacking the luggage which I had left in Joseph's care during my absence among the Alps; I was melancholy, dissatisfied with the dissipations which had exhausted my time and energies, and thinking of Margaret.

The hunters are often here; one or two a month, in the mild season; settlers rarely, as you may suppose, since my father will not sell, and there are not many about, I believe; the Indians come more frequently, though I think we have seen less of them, during Nick's absence than while he was more with us.

Cadets are allowed but one leave of absence during the four years' course, and this is granted at the expiration of the first two years.

"They probably discovered our absence about daybreak and surmised correctly the direction the breeze would carry us," he muttered half bitterly.

It is very striking that there has been that reduction in the average number of days' absence per year from sickness, from twelve to six in four years while we have been working under better conditions ... that means a less number of typing machines in one room, more light to work by and more airbetter rooms to work in.

His absence off our and a half years had given time for dangers and alarms to spring up in the half-settled realm.

" The veil was lifted to some extent by Sir AUCKLAND GEDDES, the Ministerial "handy man," who, in the absence through illness of Sir ALBERT STANLEY, explained how the Government proposed to regulate imports and exports during the transitional period.

Occasionally he preened his feathers; but he did it in a bored, awkward way, as if forced on account of his valet's absence into unfamiliar details of toilet quite beneath his dignity.

While much was done during his absence toward the settlement of numerous questions, final decision in every case awaited his return to Paris.

The attitude of his acquaintances towards this inexhaustible entertainer varied according to his presence or absence between indifference and terror.

I had still a month's leave of absence before me, availing myself of which, I started next morning for New York, subsequently obtained an extension of leave, sailed for England, and there negotiating an exchange from a regiment whose facings no longer suited my taste for colors, I soon found myself gazetted into a less objectionable one lying at Corfu.