congé
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“Gone to get his congé, Flick,” said Vanleigh.
From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by George Manville Fenn
Merely to say that they were an itinerant company of actors and actresses would be sufficient to ensure them a speedy congé from Blanford.
From His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts by David Dwight Wells
After the death of Abbess Agnes Gascoigne in July 1529, the nineteen nuns of Elstow, having received Henry VIII’s congé d’élire, assembled in their chapter house on August 9th, to elect her successor.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
It is all pretence on her part, that she has not seen him dallying about; for she has several times, while giving congé to others of the company.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
He seizes into his own hands under the mask of a congé d’élire the appointments to the bishoprics.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith
Nominally, the army is about 200,000 men, but it is whispered that numerous congés are given, in order to divert the funds that are thus saved to other objects.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
Boiardo did not disdain to assume the style of a minstrel addressing his courtly audience with compliments and congés at the beginning and ending of each canto.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
They then made me many apologies and congés, stretching forth their hands in token of friendship; in short, they now behaved with as much civility as before with rudeness.
From Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici by Various
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