Which preposition to use with absenting
We took possession by the right of squatter sovereignty, the owner being unknown, or at all events, absent from the woods.
While father was absent in Ohio, we were almost daily visited by some of the pro-slavery men, who helped themselves to anything they saw fit, and frequently compelled my mother and sisters to cook for them, and to otherwise submit to a great deal of bad treatment.
Even if the Cubs did finish third for the first time since Chance had been manager of the organization, it was a welcome sight to see Evers apparently in as good form as ever and Zimmerman so strong with the bat that the leadership of the batters finally returned to Chicago after it had been absent for years.
The owner was absent on an errand, and his daughter, who had been clumping about the kitchen on my arrival, was uninstructed in the price marks.
She hitherto has been absent at Sevil, but Expectation of her Daughter-in-law's Wedding with you has brought 'em hither,and, I ask your Pardon, Antonio, for raillying your Father-in-law that shall be, old Francisco.
They next made for the tents and surprised the dwellers there, who were not prepared for such an attack: Kerim being absent with his warriors on an expedition of the same sort.
"Father Anselmo hath not been absent without grave cause!"
Yet Denbigh was abstracted and absent during the remainder of the repast, and Emily spoke to him once or twice without obtaining an answer.
He took train for Berlin, and has been absent until now.
But the pestilence has swept by, and restored salubrity invites the absent to their homes and the return of business to its ordinary channels.
The numerous complaints provoked in other countries by forced labour are entirely absent among the Ottoman prisoners in Egypt.
Do you feel it; do you notice it?" "Feel itsee itwhy, it is as palpable, or, rather to speak accurately, it is as clearly absent as the color from an oil-painting, leaving mere black and white outlines.
At 7.30 a.m. resumed our journey down the valley to the junction of the creek with the Victoria River, which we followed down, crossing the ridge at Steep Head at 10.20, and reached the principal camp at 5.30 p.m., where we were welcomed by Mr. Elsey, who was in charge, Mr. Wilson being absent down the river at the schooner, which had been laid on the shingle bank near the Dome to complete repairs.
"Of seven surgeons attached to the hospital department, one died, three were absent by reason of indisposition, and the other three were sick."[40]
In addition to a provoking short-sightedness (the effect of late studies and watchings at the midnight oil) D. is the most absent of men.
Of the ancient peers two only attended, the lords Eure and Falconberg, of whom the latter had recently[a] married Mary, the protector's daughter; and of the other members, nine were absent through business or disinclination.
During this third voyage we were absent about sixteen months, eleven of which we had sailed without sight of the north Star or of the Greater and Lesser Bears, during which time we directed our course by the other stars of the southern pole.
Good harbors and navigable waterways are notably absent along the west coast of South America and notably present in the Eastern Mediterranean.
In the end the Forsters forestalled Cook's book by about six weeks, and as this was after Cook had left England on his last voyage, Mr. Wales undertook the defence of the absent against the sneers and insinuations that were plentifully given out all round.
Observing with a shrewdness that astonished me, that ministry, upon a late most important question, mustered no more than 250 votes, and that there were 558 members, he inferred, that you had nothing more to do than to send for those that were absent out of the country, and you might have upwards of 300 to pit against the 250.
Trying to comfort myself with this thought, I close the window again and return to my book, more restless and absent than before.
The count, having continued persistently absent up to the last, was utterly unconscious of the little fracas that had taken place between the marchesa and the cavaliere, and the consequent sudden conclusion of the game.
I made a collar for this little creature, and with a string which I had made of some rope-yarn, which I always carried about me, I led him along, though with some difficulty, till I came to my bower, and there I enclosed him and left him; for I was very impatient to be at home, from whence I had been absent above a month.
Here, again, no distinction is drawn between men really impressed and men who were arrested for being absent beyond the duration of their leave.