"Conge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dear, is everything: this time you may feel a little awkward, but you will find you will dispose of your second lover without much difficulty, and you will give his conge to your third with as much ease, as though you were merely dismissing a ...
— La Vendee • Anthony Trollope
... surprise, as I recognize no less a person than the Right Honorable the Countess of Knightsbridge, taking her tea, breaking up little bits of toast with her slim fingers, and sitting between a Belgian horse-dealer and a German violoncello-player who has a conge after the opera—like ...
— The Christmas Books • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Prince Ernst. He would take away her principality but for the fact that there would be a wholesale disturbance to follow any such act. If I ever meet that watch dog of hers, the Count von Walden, the duffer who gave me my conge, there will be trouble. The world isn't large enough for two such men as we are. By the way, I played roulette at the Casino last night and won 3,000 francs. Well, au revoir or adieu as the case may be. They sell the worst whiskey here ...
— Arms and the Woman • Harold MacGrath
... the Templars; his death. Clergy, the privileges of, Henry II.'s opposition to; Becket's support of. Clermont, council of, Peter the Hermit at. Coinage, the, Edward I.'s laws upon. Comyn, Earl of Durham, murder of, by the townsmen. Comyn the Red, his treachery to Robert Bruce; murdered by Bruce. Conge d'elire, origin of. Conrad, King of Burgundy, makes war upon Richard the Fearless. Conrade of Montferrat, his enmity to Richard I.; made King of Jerusalem; his assassination. Constance, daughter of ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... were ushered into my presence by an old white-haired servitor of Media's, who with a parting conge murmured, "From Queen Hautia," then departed. Surprised, I stood mute, and ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) • Herman Melville |
