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Example sentences for "leaving home"

  • The prince, with proper reverence and respectful feelings, again besought his royal father; but promised if he could be saved from four calamities, that he would give up the thought of "leaving home.

  • If he would grant him life without end, no disease, nor undesirable old age, and no decay of earthly possessions, then he would obey and give up the thought of "leaving home.

  • But put away this thought of 'leaving home,' and once more take yourself to pleasure.

  • You don't look like a boy that would take such an important step as leaving home without a satisfactory reason.

  • He is leaving home of his own accord," she whispered.

  • I should like to have you go out and call upon some of those with whom you are most intimate, and tell them that you are leaving home voluntarily.

  • He at once telegraphed a reply, saying that he would reach the city to-morrow at noon, leaving home on the early morning train.

  • For Archie was beginning to wonder if he hadn't made a mistake in leaving home, whether he had not been overconfident and hot-headed.

  • After entering the house I related to the lady there the particulars of my leaving home, during which time she prepared supper for me.

  • I boarded the boat for Southport, and knowing how I was to travel on leaving home, I had only brought along one suit of clothes, which I had on.

  • While at Mrs. Downey's I was taken down with a high fever, and for the first time since leaving home I had a hard spell of asthma.

  • It was a homeguard suit, though I was no homeguard, and had never been one, but purchased the suit just before leaving home.

  • And I hope you will not "swear" at me when I tell you that I cannot think of leaving home at present, even to have the pleasure of joining you at Harrogate, but I am obliged to you for thinking of me.

  • You will fully understand the impossibility of my enjoying peace of mind during absence from papa under present circumstances; his strength must be very much more fully restored before I can think of leaving home.

  • I do not say this from pique or anger--I am not angry now--but because my leaving home at present would from solid reasons be difficult to manage.

  • Anne and I went our first long journey by ourselves together, leaving home on the 30th of June, Monday, sleeping at York, returning to Keighley Tuesday evening, sleeping there and walking home on Wednesday morning.

  • I'm sorry with Millie that Roger is bent on leaving home, for I think his parents need him, and he could do well in the country.

  • I shall be more sorry for his mother and sister if he is guilty of the folly of leaving home.

  • I will not enter on the subject of leaving home, and setting out on an expedition fraught with untried temptations, and presenting even in the most favorable view a scene of life little calculated to satisfy my taste or warm my heart.

  • I cannot tell you how much more I feel than I ever did before, at leaving home;--I cannot; it is in vain to attempt so vast a subject at such a time.

  • To tell you all that I feel at leaving home would be impossible; it is a most solemn undertaking, and when I glance at the possibilities connected with such a step, it almost overwhelms me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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