Why, boy, it was a sick-furlough I was about to ask for; the only kind of petition I have ever had to write in a life long.
Eh, Tronchon, another bullet in thy old carcass; want a furlough to get strong again, eh?
The manner of his companion was particularly offensive just then, but smothering his rage St. Clair replied: "You understand that I would like a furlough to return home for a few days!
But we will talk this over, when on his furlough we visit for a few days his mother and my dear uncle and aunt.
He has a furlough and is going home by the first boat.
There had been no time to notify them by letter for I left New Orleans before a mail steamer did, after my furlough came.
His furlough will run out while he waits, but he doesn't seem to care.
I hope now my application for a furlough may be approved.
With whatever feeling, or for whatever reason the appointment may have been accepted, it is certain that all are equally anxious to take advantage of their furlough when the time comes.
Thus there is less drill in camp, and it becomes more likefurlough when there is none at all.
A furlough is granted to those only who have been present at two annual examinations at least, and by and with the consent of a parent or guardian if a minor.
I rather think the assertion is an inheritance from former days and the cadets of those days, for the similarity at present between first-class camp and furlough is beyond our conception.
After the encampment they become "furloughmen" until they return from furlough in August of the following year.
The furlough class is absent, and the plebes--well, they are "plebes.
The second class being absent on furlough during the encampment, of course have no privileges.
Indeed it is hard to say which is the stronger emotion that we experience when we first receive information of our appointment to a cadetship, or that which comes upon us when we are apprised that a furlough has been granted us.
My furlough was something more than an interruption of my ordinary mode of life for the two years previous.
Ordinarily as soon as the examination is over the third class take advantage of the two months' furlough allowed them, while other classes go into camp.
While with his regiment in Tennessee, just after the battle of Perryville he purchased a furlough for a large amount of money, returning home, and had not again rejoined his command.
While in Houston the men received good treatment and were allowed a furlough in the city every day, four men at a time, under guard.
If a furlough was not granted run the guard and be absent on “French leave,” as it was termed.
During February New Orleans was alive with army officers and men, on furlough and without leave, indulging in all sorts of wild dissipation.
Until the hospital was ready, the practice was to allow sick men to go home on furlough if unfit for duty.
Captain George, getting his furlough and carrying him off, was blessed from the deepest heart of the ward nurses.
Private Moore's application for a furlough being duly made, that night was duly granted.
The drawing turned out as I had prophesied, and I presented the furlough to Captain Germany.
A week later, having been granted the furlough for which he asked, he found himself below Natchez, bargaining with two black ferrymen to take him across the river.
Matthew Coffin had been home twice since First Manassas; other men of the region had been home, Thunder Run had seen a furlough or two, but many of the living of Company A had not returned in four years’ time.
At length a boat-load of the severely wounded were about to be sent up the river to Northern hospitals, or on furlough to go to their homes.
She would sometimes receive letters from homesick men begging her to give them a furlough to visit their families!
Having served six months in this capacity, Miss Parsons went to her home at Cambridge, on a furlough from the Sanitary Commission, to recruit her health.
Mary's furlough had first been for six months and then was made six months longer.
Mary knew if she took a furlough her work at Ikpe and the other stations would stop because there was no one to take her place.
Would it give her permission to go to cannibal land or would it tell her to come home and take her furlough in the usual way?
Her lover endeavored to combat her resolution, by declaring that while Alfred would always get a furlough if his wife was still alive at the expiration of its time, he could neither ask nor expect to obtain any further extension.
My furlough is only for thirty days," Alfred remarked, while engaged in dressing himself, "and how I am to send in a letter to New Orleans and receive an answer before that time expires I cannot conjecture.
But before this furlough expires I do not suppose I shall have any wife to be with.
My furlough does not expire for forty days," he observed, "but I shall rejoin my regiment in a week from this time.
For himself, he requested a further renewal of his furlough on the ground of his approaching marriage.
The furlough season was near and I was to leave for six weeks, commencing at Christmas, but there was something not very pleasant going on between the United States and England over the Trent affair.
At Christmas I obtained a furlough to visit my people at Penryn.
Ellen who made the fourth at the end of the furlough when (the first time the new mother had left her room) they went back to the Gare de l'Est.
For the Gare de l'Est was where the majority of French soldiers took their trains to go back to the front after their occasional week's furlough with their families.
But do not forget he was also a Baptist minister on a four-months furlough at the front.
I will be getting a furloughin a week or two and I will likely come and see you, not half.
Furlough and Retirement Regulations of the Indian Army.
Dick received a most unexpected favour of a year's furlough two days ago.
Her husband had gone back to duty, his furlough had expired, and their long, and leisurely honeymoon was over.
They say he has a furlough in his pocket for a twelvemonth: more like it's a clean, total dismissal.
He then determined to ask a furlough, and retire from the army for a few months, provided the furloughwas granted without his receiving pay.
From thence I proceed to Rome, Naples, Palermo, and Malta, where I am directed to join the commodore, he having given me furlough for the purposed route.
You won't--' 'Be able to ask for that furlough Judy wants.
