1 "It's natural enough you should be leaving us" he floundered on, following his thought.
2 "Oh, she'd never leave us as long as you needed her," he returned, scraping hard at his chin.
3 "Jotham Powell's down in the wood-lot, and Dan'l Byrne says he darsn't leave that horse," she returned.
4 It was Zeena's habit, when they came back late from the village, to leave the key of the kitchen door under the mat.
5 She was almost the last to leave the hall, and she stood looking uncertainly about her as if wondering why he did not show himself.
6 She laughed at him for not knowing the simplest sick-bed duties and told him to "go right along out" and leave her to see to things.
7 His first object was to reach Starkfield before Hale had started for his work; he knew the carpenter had a job down the Corbury road and was likely to leave his house early.
8 The clumps of trees in the snow seemed to draw together in ruffled lumps, like birds with their heads under their wings; and the sky, as it paled, rose higher, leaving the earth more alone.
9 She drank two cups of coffee and fed the cat with the scraps left in the pie-dish; then she rose from her seat and, walking over to the window, snipped two or three yellow leaves from the geraniums.
10 He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if he had had the heart to desert her he could have done so only by deceiving two kindly people who had pitied him.
11 The guests were preparing to leave, and the tide had already set toward the passage where coats and wraps were hung, when a young man with a sprightly foot and a shock of black hair shot into the middle of the floor and clapped his hands.