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Usage examples of "furloughs".
They were the ones who had waited three years in vain for furloughs and while they waited received ill-spelled letters from home: “We air hungry.
Her furloughs from the hospital grew more frequent and lasted for longer periods of time.
Austin, Miss Greenleaf's recovery seemed quite rapid, so I began to grant her furloughs to her parents' home.
It did not last long, as most of the men got ten-day furloughs, and shortly after they reported back, the entire division took trains to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
When the soldiers came home on furloughs, they got married to the girls they'd been writing letters to in town.
The best of food, drink, time-imported luxuries, servants, bed partners, sports, liberal furloughs to the past, if reasonable precautions are observed, and ample pocket money provided.
Isolation, in spite of furloughs at home and liaisons with prosaic fellow members like me.