Citations:absent


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * In this vessel, after a long voyage, I arrived in England the 11th of June, in the year 1687, having been thirty-five years absent.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!
 * As she slowly drew nigh, from my lofty perch at the fore-mast-head, I had a good view of that sight so remarkable to a tyro in the far ocean fisheries — a whaler at sea, and long absent from home.
 * For the long absent ship, the outward-bounder, perhaps, has letters on board; at any rate, she will be sure to let her have some papers of a date a year or two later than the last one on her blurred and thumb-worn files.