In effect, the proposal was to return to something close to the original plan of 1606. When the adventurers, in a court from which Sandys' enemies largely Absented themselves, rejected this proposal, the government began quo warranto proceedings against the company in the court of Kings Bench.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
Next evening, between tea-time and supper-time, Norah Absented herself without leave.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
I had two fine cows I was obliged to quit; they assumed the habits of the male, Absented themselves from the rest of the herd, went through the field lowing, roaring, and pawing the ground with their feet, their lowing being that of the male and not of the female, and their shapes and looks were completely changed.
"Cattle and Cattle-breeders"
William M'Combie