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Examples

  • Don Draper and the permanently ‘on shore-leave’ Roger Sterling are fantasies.

    Don Draper is a contemporary fantasy 2009

  • Don Draper and the permanently ‘on shore-leave’ Roger Sterling are fantasies.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Don Draper and the permanently ‘on shore-leave’ Roger Sterling are fantasies.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Don Draper and the permanently ‘on shore-leave’ Roger Sterling are fantasies.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • The Texas Street vendors trucked out their gaudiest wares for the shore-leave crowd.

    Multicultural night gregarious monk 2007

  • The Texas Street vendors trucked out their gaudiest wares for the shore-leave crowd.

    Archive 2007-03-01 gregarious monk 2007

  • A sailor lad on shore-leave again; his gait was light, he had money in his pocket, he was in love.

    The Road Leads On 2003

  • They both knew that shore-leave romances were fleeting at best.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • But there was trouble between us when it came time for me to go back to my ship, for you see I was on shore-leave at the time.

    The Road Leads On 2003

  • Then he ran for Erica's cabin, praying that she had not gone off on shore-leave.

    Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999

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