Significados de short furlough en inglés

Thirty-six years of his life were spent there, with only one short furlough home.

Derry wrote that he might go at any moment, but hoped for a short furlough.

The short furlough in Scotland, broken by so much movement and excitement, had done little permanent good.

He was exchanged at last; and you remember, when he came home on a short furlough, how manly and war-worn he had grown.

He greeted us all lovingly and made no disguise of his joy to be at home again, though but on a short furlough.

I had a short furlough on account of sickness, and saw my father; also my mother and sisters, who were then living in Richmond.

Ralph had wooed Jean ardently during the short furloughs which had been granted him, and from long distance had written a bit cocksurely.