What is "sending away"

Usage examples of "sending away".

Sir Thomas's sending away his son, seemed to her so like a parent's care, under the influence of a foreboding of evil to himself, that she could not help feeling dreadful presentiments.

I was thinking of sending away for a mail order bride from the second or third world but postage is so damn expensive.

Halvah helped me, my wife, grinding the mirror, assembling the mount, measuring and cutting wood, sending away for instructions, pasting and hammering.

I saw Phillips standing out there still sending away, giving the Carpathia details of just how we were doing.

And if we begin sending away our own children, indicating that we believe danger still exists, does this not imply that ours are more important than their loved ones?

The mortality, and the sending away of several thousand on the sick exchange, reduced the aggregate number at the time of our arrival to about eleven thousand, which gave more room to all, but was still not one-twentieth of the space which that number of men should have had.