All 33 Uses
furlough
in
The Deerslayer
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- I'm out on furlough.†
Chpt 22
- Furlough!†
Chpt 22
- A furlough is when a man has leave to quit a camp or a garrison for a sartain specified time; at the end of which he is to come back and shoulder his musket, or submit to his torments, just as he may happen to be a soldier, or a captyve.†
Chpt 22
- Don't be under any oneasiness, therefore, gal; I shall be allowed to go back according to the furlough; and if difficulties was made, I've not been brought up, and edicated as one may say, in the woods, without knowing how to look 'em down.†
Chpt 22
- "When is your furlough out, Deerslayer," she asked, after both canoes were heading towards the Ark, and moving, with scarcely a perceptible effort of the paddles, through the water.†
Chpt 22
- The two Indians, in particular, read in his manner that he was not a successful fugitive, and a few sententious words sufficed to let them comprehend the nature of what their friend had termed his 'furlough.'†
Chpt 23
- Furlough, Judith; furlough is the word; and it carries the same meaning with a captyve at large, as it does with a soldier who has leave to quit his colors.†
Chpt 23
- Furlough, Judith; furlough is the word; and it carries the same meaning with a captyve at large, as it does with a soldier who has leave to quit his colors.†
Chpt 23
- In both cases the word is passed to come back, and now I remember to have heard that's the ra'al signification; 'furlough' meaning a 'word' passed for the doing of any thing of the like.†
Chpt 23
- It seems the elders among 'em consaited I was a man to be trusted on a furlough-They're wonderful obsarvant, them Mingos; that their worst mimics must allow—but they consaited I was such a man; and it isn't often—" added the hunter, with a pleasing consciousness that his previous life justified this implicit reliance on his good faith—"it isn't often they consait any thing so good of a pale-face; but so they did with me, and, therefore, they didn't hesitate to speak their minds, which is just this: You see the state of things.†
Chpt 23
- Them was the conditions on which I got my furlough, and a bargain is a bargain, though it is made with a vagabond.†
Chpt 23
- I'm out on a furlough, and if I've strength and reason, I'll go in on a furlough afore noon to-morrow!†
Chpt 23 *
- I'm out on a furlough, and if I've strength and reason, I'll go in on a furlough afore noon to-morrow!†
Chpt 23
- What's an Injin, or a word passed, or a furlough taken from creatur's like them, that have neither souls, nor reason!†
Chpt 23
- This furlough is not, as you seem to think, a matter altogether atween me and the Mingos, seeing it is a solemn bargain made atween me and God.†
Chpt 23
- Farewell, Harry; we may not meet ag'in, but I would wish you never to treat a furlough, or any other solemn thing that your Christian God has been called on to witness, as a duty so light that it may be forgotten according to the wants of the body, or even accordin' to the cravings of the spirit.†
Chpt 23
- He knows no better, and, therefore, he is little likely to feel or to act any better; but, Judith, I put it to your heart and conscience—would you, could you think of me as favorably, as I hope and believe you now do, was I to forget my furlough and not go back to the camp?†
Chpt 24
- Then don't try to entice me to overlook my furlough, gal!†
Chpt 24
- A furlough is a sacred thing among warriors and men that carry their lives in their hands, as we of the forests do, and what a grievous disapp'intment would it be to old Tamenund, and to Uncas, the father of the Sarpent, and to my other fri'nds in the tribe, if I was so to disgrace myself on my very first war-path.†
Chpt 24
- It is the thought of such things, my fri'nds, that enables a man to keep his furlough.†
Chpt 25
- Now, wasn't it for this furlough of mine, which must soon take me back to the Mingos, I'd find this creatur's nest, if I travelled the woods a fortnight—though an eagle's nest is soon found by them that understands the bird's natur',—but I'd travel a fortnight rather than not find it, just to put the young, too, out of their pain.†
Chpt 26
- "You know enough of red-skin natur', and red-skin usages, Wah-ta-Wah, to see the condition I am in on account of this furlough," commenced the hunter in Delaware, as soon as the patient and submissive girl of that people had moved quietly to his side; "you will therefore best onderstand how onlikely I am ever to talk with you ag'in.†
Chpt 26
- You know too well the natur' of furloughs and Mingos to have any doubts or misgivin's consarnin' what is like to happen, when I get back to the camp.†
Chpt 26
- I can't stop to talk this matter over with you any longer, for Hetty's in the canoe, and the furlough takes me away, but the time will come I hope when you'll feel these things; for, after all, they must be felt rather than reasoned about.†
Chpt 26
- Because, my good girl, my furlough comes so near to an end.†
Chpt 26
- With a furlough, gal; that's a thong that binds tighter than any chain.†
Chpt 26
- Ropes and chains allow of knives, and desait, and contrivances; but a furlough can be neither cut, slipped nor sarcumvented.†
Chpt 26
- What sort of a thing is a furlough, then, if it be stronger than hemp or iron?†
Chpt 26
- I never saw a furlough.†
Chpt 26
- What is called a promise atween mother and darter, or even atween strangers in the settlements is called a furlough when given by one soldier to another, on a warpath.†
Chpt 26
- Put the paddle in motion ag'in, gal, and we'll push for the shore, for the sun is nearly up, and my furlough is almost out.†
Chpt 26
- A furlough is as binding on a pale-face, if he be honest, as it is on a red-skin, and was it not so, I would never bring disgrace on the Delawares, among whom I may be said to have received my edication.†
Chpt 27
- I'm your prisoner ag'in, and I hope you'll allow that I'm as good at breaking gaol, as I am at keeping furloughs.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(furlough) a temporary leave from work, duty, or confinement, usually granted by an employer, the military, or an institutionFurloughs are often without pay in private companies, but government workers are sometimes furloughed with pay, especially during shutdowns. A prison furlough is a temporary release from prison, usually for a specific reason, like visiting family or attending a funeral.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Furlough is used as a last name.