What is "take leave"

Usage examples of "take leave".

The former of these teaching the folly and vanity of it, and the latter correcting it as unlawful, and at the same time assuaging it, by raising future hopes and assurances, which enable a strong and religious mind to take leave of a friend, on his death-bed, with little less indifference than if he was preparing for a long journey.

We shall now take leave of this place, and give an account of another city named Tudin-fu.

My Dear Sir Charles, I take leave to dedicate this work to you, not merely because your nineteen years of political and literary life in Australia render it very fitting that any work written by a resident in the colonies, and having to do with the history of past colonial days, should bear your name upon its dedicatory page.

Darcy, only for a few minutes to take leave, but that Colonel Fitzwilliam had been sitting with them at least an hour, hoping for her return, and almost resolving to walk after her till she could be found.

Here Jones offered to take leave of his guide, and to improve his pace.

His execution was so sudden, that he was not permitted to take leave of his wife and children, but was hurried into a place appropriated to the punishment of slaves, and there killed by the hand of the tribune Statius.

I got up to take leave, and asked Miss Spencer where, in Paris, I might have the honor of waiting upon her.

And so, may God deliver your worship from evil-minded enchanters, and bring me well and peacefully out of this government, which I doubt, for I expect to take leave of it and my life together, from the way Doctor Pedro Recio treats me.

Then I take leave to console myself over the loss of my friends and disappear.

But as His Majesty's Deputy-Governor of Jamaica, I'll take leave to correct your mistake in my own way.