He returned to his waiting friends and apologized for his protracted absence.

I now began to feel painfully anxious at Rokóa's protracted absence.

Mr. Hardy went upstairs and consulted with the doctor, who wondered at his protracted absence.

Then that day when rumor and Kyle and Latisan's protracted absence had nigh killed courage!

She liked not the protracted absence of Asa.

Gibson imagined we had gone to the west, and was much perturbed by our protracted absence.

Had the peasant befriended her, I wondered; and what did she think of my protracted absence?

Lady Aoi saw him but seldom, and was constantly disquieted by his protracted absence from her.

All these occurrences, united to the protracted absence of Mark, made Bridget and Anne extremely unhappy.

A card left at a farewell visit, before a long protracted absence, has "P.P.C."

The protracted absence of his wife made the gossips conclude that the break was a final one.

By this time I began to fear that my friends would be rendered impatient by my protracted absence.

At last I commenced to worry over Nobs' protracted absence and to fear that something had befallen him.

That this protracted absence caused no little disquietude in Rome is apparent from the following Ode (IV.

And on the 6th December she mentions an event which served to accentuate the sadness of that protracted absence:-

As Mendel had anticipated, Recha was a prey to the liveliest fears at the protracted absence of her husband.