He was an amusing person, who seemed likely to prove an acquisition to the Wittinagemot; but, having run up a score of thirty or forty pounds, he suddenly absented himself.
This resolution being carried, he absented himself from the house, and was expelled.
She had just absented herself to fetch a skein of wool; and she gazed fixedly at the priest, unable to understand the reason of his presence.
Educated at the College of the Nobles, Pio Boccanera had but once absented himself from Rome, and that when very young, hardly a deacon, but nevertheless appointed oblegate to convey a berretta to Paris.
They had indeed become so convinced of the precarious nature and necessity of the work that they never afterwards absented themselves from the rock on Sunday when a landing was practicable.
He absented himself from the conference of his brethren, an action which, coupled with his attitude in the past, indicated that it was his intention to retain his living at the Government price.
I have called to see for what reason you absented yourself from Divine service yesterday, Hepburn?
Upon the plea that the younger child could not be left, she absented herself from the church that Sabbath morning; and the minister was not surprised to behold the Haughhead seat unoccupied likewise.
But finding afterwards that he absented himself from the attorney employed, and had engaged another, and that he had been closeted with the Solicitors of the Treasury, I left him to follow his own choice, and he chose to plead Guilty.
They all waited patiently every day, like so many slaves, in a body, in a narrow and stifling room; for the risk they ran if they absented themselves was most serious.
Jean was mortified at this ungrateful conduct, and so much ashamed of it that she absented herself from Lochside for several years.
Upon this unpleasant occurrence Captain Brown absented himself from the inn in which he had resided under the name of Dawson, so that Colonel Mannering's attempts to discover and trace him were unavailing.
Wellington and the most stern and unbending Tories absented themselves from the decisive division, and allowed the Reform Bill to become a law in June, 1832.
He fancied, from his appearance, that he was quite intoxicated, and feared the utterance of some folly which might explain the cause of his having absented himself more fully than was at all necessary.
Charles himself dined there repeatedly, but was never asked why he absented himself, nor where he had been.
The afternoon following that on which he had absented himself from practice saw Clint approaching the field at three-thirty with misgivings.
Andy Miller showed up again, and with him two other coaches who had absented themselves for a few days, and life became once more terrifically strenuous for the 'varsity players.
Once, we are told, he absented himself from his home in Exeter for three days.
Indeed, whenever Andree and the children absented themselves, Ambroise still kept a good cook to minister to his needs, for he held the cuisine of restaurants in horror.
A few days after the election, he absented himself from Rome, as though to see whether proceedings would be continued against him.
He turned upon his heel, absented himself from the room as soon as he could, and retired to his own chamber, there to storm at his leisure.
Springfield) had absented himself from the quarterly assembly of the Corporation on May 3rd.
At last, deterred by this violence, he not only gave way, but absented himself from the senate-house during the remainder of that year.
He (108) occasionally absented himself from the spectacles for several hours, and sometimes for whole days; but not without first making an apology, and appointing substitutes to preside in his stead.
It was observed that Her Majesty had absented herself from some public ceremonies, on the plea of indisposition.
From the moment when it was known that the King was still in England, Sancroft, who had hitherto acted as chief of the provisional government, absented himself from the sittings of the Peers.
He absentedhimself from the public worship of the Church of England, and, with some fellows and undergraduates whom he had perverted, heard mass daily in his own apartments.
He absented himself; he was ordered to return into residence: he disobeyed: he was expelled; and the work of spoliation was complete.
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