"Conge" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was de nices' girl between De town of Yamachiche an' Maskinonge, But she's stuck up an' she's proud, an' you'll never count de crowd Of de boy she geev it w'at dey call de conge. ...
— Humour of the North • Lawrence J. Burpee
... Colinii Vita, 81; Jean de Serres, iii. 331. Charles IX. in a letter to La Mothe Fenelon, from St. Germains des Pres, July 27, 1569, alludes to the successes of the Huguenots, whom Anjou cannot resist, "ayant donne conge a la pluspart de sa gendarmerye de s'en aller faire ung tour en leurs maisons." Corresp. diplom., vii. 35, 36. The furlough, which was to expire on the 15th of August, was afterward extended by Anjou to ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird |
