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Sentences starting with absence

Absence makes no difference to some men, sir, nor the West, for that matter. [9]

Sentences ending with absence

His anxious longing was mingled with regret for the lost opportunity of seeing Selene and alarm at the Emperor's prolonged absence. [10]
It worried him to see his servant returning after too short an absence. [6]
Pfuel, always inclined to be irritably sarcastic, was particularly disturbed that day, evidently by the fact that they had dared to inspect and criticize his camp in his absence. [2]
One thing noticeable, they were always fired in Jethro's absence. [9]
During these reflections the chill had become more and more unendurable, yet she thought far less of the discomfort which it caused her than of increased danger to Erasmus from the Hiltners' long absence. [10]
Hence he had taken the trouble to advertise a trip abroad to account for his absence. [9]
I believed in some ideal love which was to keep her faithful to me for the whole year of my absence! [2]
We were happy save in her absence. [11]
And at the same time let us express our thanks to my friend Ani, who has entertained us so magnificently, and who has so faithfully and zealously administered the affairs of the kingdom during my absence. [10]
When Berenike had rested in solitude for some little time she recalled Melissa, and took as much care of her young guest as though she were her lost darling, restored to her after a brief absence. [10]

Short sentences using absence

What strange absence of mind! [10]

Sentences containing absence two or more times

Your absence, do you hear?--pardon the interruption, fairest Ledscha--your absence would seriously anger her. [10]
From this condition there is but a very small step to the complete absence of spots in the adults at all seasons; and, lastly, to their absence at all ages and seasons, as occurs with certain species. [1]
This imitation of speech, taken together with general absence of fur and entire absence of tail, sufficiently indicates that this is a new kind of bear. [5]
For the absence of vice with the absence of morals are not incongruous in a human face. [11]
This thing could have been done in many other countries, but hardly with the cold business-like depravity, absence of fear, absence of caution, destitution of the sense of horror, repentance, remorse, exhibited in this case. [5]
The most notable absence observable in the billiard-room, was the absence of the river man. [5]

More example sentences with the word absence in them

I shall charge you a reasonable compensation for the demage to the school by the absence of a teacher. [6]
She had never yet failed to appear, and her absence would excite remark. [10]
I grudge every year of absence that rolls by. [4]
His swift horses would not need more than that time for the journey, and during their absence the rest of the party could move from the inn. [10]
But as luck would have it, the Governor had been that day in such worry and perplexity, and my grandfather also, that my absence had passed unnoticed. [9]
Pontius had travelled with them from Thebes to Besa, and she had spared him nothing that could punish him for his long absence, and had mercilessly compelled him to listen to all her verses on Antinous. [10]
Didymus was filled with compassion for him, and, though he gladly welcomed Gorgias, he gave him to understand that the leech's absence vexed him. [10]
She was shivering with cold, and her friend's long absence began to annoy her. [10]
The gracious young wife was overwhelmed with horror, which had doubtless prevented her return, unless her absence was due to departure from the city. [10]
This makes the whole a very gratifying result, and perhaps explains the absence of some names on your book. [6]
Which of you who owns a garden can say in future, 'It is mine,' if, during the absence of the Queen, it is allowable to take it away to be used for any other purpose? [10]
These are they who deplore the absence among us of a tradition of monarchy, since the American people "should have something to look up to. [9]
We, the Old Whigs, have been entirely beaten out on the tariff question, and we shall not be able to re-establish the policy until the absence of it shall have demonstrated the necessity for it in the minds of men heretofore opposed to it. [7]
During their absence, when Charmian had been attacked by sickness, Cleopatra had often entrusted the care of her toilet to Aisopion, and had praised her skill. [10]
He also realized what terrible anxiety his absence would cause his mother. [10]
I refrained myself well enough, and I excused my brother's and my lover's absence with a plea of weighty affairs. [10]
This time it was the presence or absence of a single letter which led us to fear that an important package destined to America had miscarried. [6]
Of course there was no school report in the Union, and Boggs held me accountable, though I was innocent of any intention or desire to compass its absence from that paper, and was as sorry as any one that the misfortune had occurred. [5]
Of course there was no school report in the Union, and Boggs held me accountable, though I was innocent of any intention or desire to compass its absence from that paper and was as sorry as any one that the misfortune had occurred. [5]
I get along very well without the luxury and the wealth and the sort of society I've been accustomed to, but I do miss the respect and can't seem to get reconciled to the absence of it. [5]
That was all very well during the Emperor's absence, but now that his Majesty resided in the city the case was different. [10]
Baker and I used to do something, but I think you attach more importance to our absence than is just. [7]
The couple took up the puzzle of the absence of Tilbury's death-notice. [5]
Their father grew uneasy at their long absence, and sent Joseph, his favorite, to see if any thing had gone wrong with them. [5]
The younger brother, uneasy at his protracted absence, was watching at the door for his coming, when he appeared in the pathway with his little guide. [12]
The Commissioner was uncertain what to do, as the Crees were restless through want of food and the absence of game, and a force sent to capture Arrowhead, the chief who had committed the murder, might precipitate trouble. [11]
During her absence Uarda was to rub her grandfather's temples with the leaves which the witch Hekt had laid on her bruises, for as they had once proved efficacious they might perhaps a second time scare away the demon of sickness. [10]
By the same trusty messenger did Virginia contrive to send a note to Mrs. Brice, begging her to explain her absence to Judge Whipple. [9]
Epicurus says that true pleasure is to be found only in peace of mind and absence of pain. [10]
And the Independents tried hard to swallow the wretched subterfuge, and pretend that they did not know what was the real reason of the absence of the abandoned creature whom they denominate their standard-bearer. [5]
The Democratic orator took advantage of the absence of his opponent to describe the discussion of the night before, and to give a portrait of his adversary. [4]
And when I told him my errand, he wept on my neck, and said he had obtained unlimited leave of absence for you from the Paris commissioners. [9]
One would have to travel far to match their ease and sociability and animation and sparkle and absence of shyness and self-consciousness. [5]
It was better to run some risk of injury to health, than to have her absence prolonged another day. [6]
The mystery as to how this had been effected was the more elusive when she considered the absence of all methods which might have been deemed revivalistic. [9]
It was necessary to her, for she occupied herself with the helpless little creature when, during the long morning hours of Ulrich's absence, sorrowful thought troubled her too deeply. [10]
This absence seemed to her ominous. [10]
I am bored to death, for Verus, Balbilla and the others have asked for leave of absence that they may go to inspect the work doing at Lochias; I am accustomed to find that people would rather be any where than with me. [10]
She was not to be deceived by the face value of the ladies' praises, nor rebuffed unmercifully by my Aunt Caroline, who had held the sceptre in the absence of a younger aspirant. [9]
He was beginning to be a little taken aback by her calmness and her apparent absence of joy. [9]
How long a time his absence would extend could not be estimated, and the many poor people whom he had fed and supported must not suffer through his departure. [10]
In spite of this, and although his absence threatened to rouse Caesar to fury, and everything pointed to the necessity of his remaining within call, Macrinus, drawn by an irresistible craving, had followed the invitation, which sounded more like a command. [10]
He avoided confessing this to himself it is true, still he felt lighter and freer in the absence of his grave monitor than he had been for a long time. [10]
The vitality of this club has depended in a great measure on its utter poverty in statutes and by-laws, its entire absence of formality, and its blessed freedom from speech-making. [6]
I do not think that this counting is constitutionally essential to the election, but how are we to proceed in the absence of it? [7]
Flattering advertisements took them to numbers of huge apartment-houses chiefly distinguishable from tenement-houses by the absence of fire-escapes on their facades, till Mrs. March refused to stop at any door where there were more than six bell-ratchets and speaking-tubes on either hand. [8]
After disclosing to them his desire to allow the judges to decide and, should the verdict go against Biberli, release him from punishment by a pardon, both undertook to justify the absence of the accused from the trial. [10]
During her absence the wounded had been conveyed to the sick-houses; one only was left whom they had not been able to move. [10]
In Philip's absence the valiant governor-general of the duchy, aided by the influence and courage of the Comtesse Chantavoine, had thus far saved it from dismemberment, in spite of attempted betrayals by Damour the Intendant, who still remained Philip's enemy. [11]
He emptied out the sensations of absence, loneliness, desire, and affection. [11]
Yes, he was the same Peter, but her absence from him had served to sharpen her sense of certain characteristics. [9]
As already noticed, the Protestants are broken up into a long array of sects, a result of disputes about the meanings of texts, disputes made unavoidable by the absence of an infallible authority to submit doubtful passages to. [5]
The absence of the pervading and jocund steamboatman from the billiard- saloon was explained. [5]
Granvelle had given the others leave of absence, but wished to keep within call the industrious Maltese, on whose zeal he could always rely. [10]
I have read the novel--[The Gilded Age, published during his absence, December, 1873. [5]
The habits of the military class are the absence of freedom, that is, discipline, idleness, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness. [2]
Lastly, she summoned the major-domo and told him what he must do during her absence, which she thought would not exceed a week at the utmost. [10]
Nothing will check the lynchings and ruler-murder but absolute silence --the absence of pow-pow about them. [5]
Inclosed I send the leave of absence for your brother, in as good form as I think I can safely put it. [7]
During Charmian's absence the latter had received a letter from Alexas, in which he informed her that he was ordered by the Queen to subject her to an examination the next morning. [10]
They judged that the Duke's constant presence and the lawyer's protracted absence would do the rest--for they did not invite the lawyer. [5]
They had freed the country of highwaymen and murderers to a great extent, and they determined that in the absence of the regular civil authority they would establish a People's Court where all offenders should be tried by judge and jury. [5]
In her absence the coppersmith Pernhart had wooed her mother in good earnest, and the eldest daughter not being on the spot, had sped so well that the widow had yielded. [10]
When you add the constant presence of charming scenery and the nearly constant absence of dust--well, if one is not content then, he ought to get out and walk. [5]
It was from the Chevalier's lips he had learned the whole course of Guida's life during the four years of his absence from the island. [11]
A baboon at the Cape of Good Hope, as I have been informed by Sir Andrew Smith, recognised him with joy after an absence of nine months. [1]
Who wonders if the brothers of Jesus asked him to come home with them, and said his mother and his sisters were grieved at his long absence, and would be wild with delight to see his face again? [5]
A third, in the absence of opponents, between two councils would simply solicit a special gratuity for his faithful services, well knowing that at that moment people would be too busy to refuse him. [2]
With respect to the absence of fossil remains, serving to connect man with his ape-like progenitors, no one will lay much stress on this fact who reads Sir C. Lyell's discussion (19. [1]
The battered house, the absence of barn or stable or garden, or any token of thrift or energy, marked the man as an excrescence in this theatre of hope and fruitful toil. [11]
The second is the absence of all business and conversation of friends, which might divert your mind, give it occasional rest from the intensity of thought which will sometimes wear the sweetest idea threadbare and turn it to the bitterness of death. [7]
But Granvelle's message that she was one cf those who stood nearest to the abdicating sovereign constantly echoed in her ears, and her absence from this ceremony would have seemed to her unnatural--nay, an offence against something necessary. [10]
For he knew that rustlers, being riders, would not make much of a day's or night's absence from camp for one or two of their number; but when the missing ones failed to show up in reasonable time there would be a search. [13]
Mr. Lonsdale concluded that it had deserted its sickly mate; but after an absence of twenty-four hours it returned, and apparently communicated the result of its successful exploration, for both then started along the same track and disappeared over the wall. [1]
Could he imagine that anything might compensate for his absence in the coming months, in this year of all years in her life? [11]
Jane had believed that absence of worry and responsibility coupled with good nursing and comfort would mend Mrs. Larkin's broken health. [13]
Yet, during my temporary absence at Benicia, last week, alas! [5]
The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness. [2]
In my judgment such of us as have never fallen victims have been spared more by the absence of appetite than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have. [7]
I had a strong misgiving that his nightly absence was for no good purpose. [12]
It is by straws we are enabled to tell which way the wind is blowing, and I first noticed his partiality for Miss Trevor from the absence of the lively conflicts she was wont to have with Farrar. [9]
Their young champion spoke the more worldly and cynical tongue of White's and Brooks's, with its shorter sentences and absence of formality. [9]
He had been speaking about the general want of attachment to the Union and the absence of the sentiment of loyalty as bearing on the probable dissolution of the Union. [6]
The widow was soon informed of all that had occurred in her absence, and an hour later she had announced to the bishop that she would accept the call to Besa and was ready to start for Upper Egypt. [10]
Bixby soon made some trips up the Missouri River, and in his absence turned his apprentice, or "cub," over to other pilots, such being the river custom. [5]
We greatly need some light on Harriet's side of the case now; we need to know how she enjoyed the month, but there is no way to inform ourselves; there seems to be a strange absence of documents and letters and diaries on that side. [5]
Crozier had been so busy with the delicate and difficult negotiations that he had not deeply concerned himself with the absence of the necessary ten thousand dollars. [11]
To gratify his sister's passion for the chase he had given Quijada leave of absence, and now he regretted it. [10]
The sun was sinking when Mena, who that day had leave of absence from the king, came in great excitement up to the table where the princes were sitting and craved the king's permission to make an important communication. [10]
On the port side sat the Reverend in the seat of honor; the pale young man next to him; I next; next to me an aged Bermudian, returning to his sunny islands after an absence of twenty-seven years. [5]
But with domesticated sheep the presence or absence of horns is not a firmly fixed character; for a certain proportion of the merino ewes bear small horns, and some of the rams are hornless; and in most breeds hornless ewes are occasionally produced. [1]
As soon as she saw him she was seized by the same feeling she had had at the opera--gratified vanity at his admiration of her and fear at the absence of a moral barrier between them. [2]
Besides, the further she advanced toward recovery, the more unendurable appeared the absence of liberty. [10]
The Vice-Consul, Mr. Sewall, in the enforced absence of his principal, Mr. Russell, paid us every attention, and was very agreeable. [6]
It says "General Schofield has refused leave of absence to members in military service to attend the legislature. [7]
We got to Saint Louis this morning, after an absence of 3 weeks--that boat generally makes the trip in 2. [5]
It is also said his supposed desertion is comprised in an absence commencing with his falling behind last winter, being captured and paroled by the enemy, and then going home. [7]
He at once resigned his commission, and without waiting for it to be accepted took leave of absence and went to Moscow. [2]
Antigonus closed his report with the impudent whistle of the Greek athlete; he dwelt chiefly on his astonishment at Melissa's absence. [10]
Napoleon made ironic remarks during Fabvier's account, as if he had not expected that matters could go otherwise in his absence. [2]

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