"Absence without leave" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Newgate, tried, and most likely have swung for the robbery, but for the strong intercession of my Captain, who was a friend of the Gentleman robbed. That I was indeed enlarged, but was not suffered to go scot-free, inasmuch as, being tried by court-martial for absence without leave on the night of the gentleman's misfortune, I was sentenced to receive three hundred lashes at the halberts. ...
— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 • George Augustus Sala |
