"Conge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shall wed Prince Ernst. He would take away her principality but for the fact that there would be a wholesale disturbance to follow any such act. If I ever meet that watch dog of hers, the Count von Walden, the duffer who gave me my conge, there will be trouble. The world isn't large enough for two such men as we are. By the way, I played roulette at the Casino last night and won 3,000 francs. Well, au revoir or adieu as the case may be. They sell the worst whiskey here you ever heard of. ...
— Arms and the Woman • Harold MacGrath
... je savois que les secretaires et les commis quittoient a cette heure la leurs bureaux, pour aller diner ou il leur plaisoit, je laissai la mon chef-d'oeuvre, et sortis pour me rendre, non chez Monteser, parcequ'il m'avoit paye mes appointemens, et que j'avois pris conge de lui, mais chez le plus fameux traiteur du quartier ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... my conge as secret agent, but it was understood that when the renewal of the revolt from Austria, to which he looked forward at no distant time, was at hand, I should take the place to which I had looked forward in the beginning. I saw one of Kossuth's associates ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I • Stillman, William James
... souvent ladite Jehanne la Pucelle sous un grand arbre qui la fontaine ombroit; et s'apparurent a elle Ste Katerine et Ste Marguerite qui lui dirent qu'elle allast a ung Cappitaine qu'elles lui nommerent, laquelle y alla sans prendre conge ni a pere ni a mere; lequel Cappitaine la vestit en guise d'homme et l'armoit et lui ceint l'epee, et luy bailla un escuyer et quatre varlets; et en ce point fut montee sur un bon cheval; et en ce point vint ...
— The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural • Various
... nonce, retournant vers celui qui l'envoie, Prend conge de l'enfant, et, comme procureur Du tres victorieux et tres noble empereur, Fait le salut qu'on ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... that it was securely locked. Good God! was I to be burned like a rat in a trap? All was quiet save the crackling of the flames as they licked up the depot. Something must be done and quickly at that, or there would be one operator who would receive his conge in a manner that was anything but pleasant. Feverishly, I groped around, and all at once my hand came in contact with the Winchester rifle. I grasped it by the barrel, and using it as a battering ...
— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady
... "When he gets his conge he cannot complain of having received encouragement," he said once or twice. "But he's no fool: can it be that he is in love with Miss Lenox all the time, and that he tries to pique her with a show of devotion ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various |
