French leave
Example Sentences
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My efforts at French leave me at once inert and exhausted, as though I’ve been dog-paddling in a pool of standing water.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
Spain sent Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to make the French leave Florida.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Furious, Michelangelo took French leave of Rome, and it was seven months before he was reconciled.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If the French leave, there will be no protection," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
We must take it with French leave, or let it alone.”
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
