Connor took her absence as his cue to begin handing Ray toys from the floor, one after the other.

Emma, who was never late for anything, took Finn's absence as a personal insult.

Tenskwatawa took his brother's absence as an opportunity to raise tensions even higher by further stirring up his followers.

He wondered what she was doing and how she was taking his absence.

But his esteem for these qualities could lead him, in New Haven and after, to take their absence as a personal affront.

Her office cited scheduling problems, but some here took her absence as a symbol of the administration's new disdain for things French.

Lyons might take his sudden absence as one more rejection in a long series.

In 1871 he took a year's absence due to over-strain in his profession, spending the time visiting England and the continent.

It had taken her absence to make him realize how hooked he was on her.

Evander's admirers did not take his absence lying down.