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  • I have had all my own little concerns to arrange, books and music to divide, and all my trunks to repack, from not having understood in time what was intended as to the waggons: and one thing I have had to do, Mary, of a more trying nature: going to almost every house in the parish, as a sort of take-leave.

    Persuasion 1892

  • I have had all my own little concerns to arrange, books and music to divide, and all my trunks to repack, from not having understood in time what was intended as to the waggons: and one thing I have had to do, Mary, of a more trying nature: going to almost every house in the parish, as a sort of take-leave.

    Persuasion Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1892

  • While the maid was at Miss Hurley's on an errand, she saw Mr. Hawthorne enter, probably for a take-leave call.

    Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

  • She rode up to the highest part of the down for a take-leave gaze.

    Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Breakfasted to-day in the Rue d'Anjou, a take-leave repast given to the

    The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819

  • It is not my intention to set my foot out of the ship, except to make my take-leave bow to Admiral Milbank.

    The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton Nelson, Horatio 1814

  • It is not my intention to set my foot out of the ship, except to make my take-leave bow to Admiral Milbank.

    The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol. I. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters Horatio Nelson 1781

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