absent without leave

“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.

Without it, they say, the disease would surely kill her within two years.

Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.

The research literature, too, asks these questions, and not without reason.

Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries.

He held it, but it was without pressure; without recognizance of the delight with which he once grasped it.

Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.

They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.

She had listened—she had listened intently, looking straight out of the window and without moving.

Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.