The king gave him a brief leave when he was twenty-nine.

First by Irwin taking a brief leave to settle some personal affairs.

What had been expected to be a brief leave developed into a three-year convalescence from the disease.

Now he's gone and after a brief leave she is back on the payroll.

Back in the United States on a brief leave, he told me that the siege is worse now than at any time since the spring.

In April 1864, Jones took a brief leave of absence to recover his health.

Unlike my friend, I wasn't uprooting my life, just taking a brief leave.

I have recommended brief leave for each of you on his or her home planet.

She refused to take even a brief leave to see them.

He also participated in the Kentucky Campaign that autumn, and then took a brief sick leave.