"Conge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... qu'il ne leur donneroit conge de se departir jusques a ce qu'ils y eussent donne ordre." Letter of the Sieur du Mortier, French amb. at Rome, to the Bp. of Rennes, Aug. 9, 1561, apud Le Laboureur, Additions to Castelnau, i. 730. This ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... which had knocked at her heart, when Penelope had assumed that there was a definite understanding between herself and Rooke, knocked again. Poetically wrapped up, he was in reality handing her out her conge—frankly admitting that art came first and ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... chance; And yet in conscience, if I were put to swear, I would be bound to lay a pound, the knave was never there. And hap'ning 'mongst this company by chance one day, I had no sooner nam'd my name, but they ran all away. But now I will to my task, and leave your grace; And so I take my conge of your ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley
... the Alberga. An old building. Rain, thunder, and lightning. Leave Alberga for the north-west. Drenched in the night. Two lords of the soil. Get their conge. Water-holes. Pretty amphitheatre. Scrubs on either side. Watering the horses. A row of saplings. Spinifex and poplars. Dig a tank. Hot wind. A broken limb. Higher hills. Flat-topped hills. Singular cones. Better country. A horse staked. Bluff-faced hills. The Anthony Range. ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles
... her conge, and hoped "El Senora Maria un asiento." "Mucho, mucho," sung out Bang, who meant by that that ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
|
