An abrupt and unceremonious dismissal.
1 I can recognize a conge , but consider me a persistent boor.
2 Should she pay off old Briggs and give her her conge ?
3 I have caught you, red-handed, in the act of giving a millionnaire his conge .
4 Henry established the supremacy of the State by letters patent, praemunire, and conge d'elire.
5 The letters stand for the French phrase, "Pour prendre conge " - to take leave.
6 Her high hereditary Majesty smiled on me when she gave Leicester conge and fiery quittance.
7 Mr. Braybrooke must certainly have received his conge .
8 The secular and Parliamentary origin of praemunire and conge d' elire were less notorious and more disagreeable subjects.
9 These letters-standing for Pour prendre conge (To take leave)-arewritten in the lower left-hand corner of the visiting-card.
10 The envoy (who was only a subaltern) received his conge , was blindfolded and led back to his boat.
11 He will be much too discreet to send a conge card by post, knowing, as he does, the Warsaw post-office.
12 We found the General had been wounded at Maubeuge, and was now absent on conge for the recovery of his health.
13 It was not alone the fact of him having got his conge - no medico was safe from THAT punch below the belt.
14 On his recovery he obtained two months ' conge de convalescence', part of which he spent at Biarritz and part in Paris.
15 Keep in with him, my dear sir, by all means, unless you desire (a) your conge , or (b) an extortionate bill for breakages and arrears.
16 Shortly after, the king and queen gave us all our conges .
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