1 Gerald warmed to the flattery and said that the wedding had been a quiet affair, "not like you girls had," for Joe had only a few days' furlough.
2 The army, driven back into Virginia, went into winter quarters on the Rapidan--a tired, depleted army since the defeat at Gettysburg-- and as the Christmas season approached, Ashley came home on furlough.
3 Ashley came home four days before Christmas, with a group of the County boys also on furlough, a sadly diminished group since Gettysburg.
4 All this week I've talked lies, like all men talk when they're on furlough.
5 I suppose it was when he was here on furlough.
6 Uncle Henry's visit was brief, for he had only a four-hour furlough and he needed half of it for the long walk in from the breastworks and back.
7 But, all the same, he was her beau after you turned him down, because when he come home on his last furlough they got engaged.
8 But Rene had changed since that furlough when he married Maybelle Merriwether.
9 Rostov lived, as before, with Denisov, and since their furlough they had become more friendly than ever.
10 When furloughs from the rapidly thinning army were denied, these soldiers went home without them, to plow their land and plant their crops, repair their houses and build up their fences.
11 "Plow furloughs" were not looked upon in the same light as desertion in the face of the enemy, but they weakened the army just the same.
12 de Treville, and permitted him to distribute furloughs for four days, on condition that the favored parties should not appear in any public place, under penalty of the Bastille.
13 The first four furloughs granted, as may be imagined, were to our four friends.