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come away

verb
  1. To become separated from something. (intransitive) · The cakes have started to come away from the pan.
  2. To distance oneself (from). (intransitive) · He goes to the park to come away from the hustle and bustle of the city.
  3. To leave a place or cease an activity with a particular mood, knowledge, or provision supplied. (intransitive)
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I will kill the big man and his wife, and the child if I can, and come away quietly.
The Jungle Book, p. 74 · B2
Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, “I really must be getting home; the night-air doesn’t suit my throat!” and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, “Come away, my dears!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 21 · B2
“Then it makes it the easier for me to propose that you should come away with me for a week to the Continent.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 103 · B2
Jones’s shopboy in the street, who had told her that they were not to send any more draughts to Netherfield, because the Miss Bennets were come away, when her civility was claimed towards Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 82 · B2

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