"Without so much as a by-your-leave!" murmured the guardian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Robin] Reference

He went striding off into the parlor without a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slightly Married]

For flippantly arranging the rest of my life without so much as a by-your-leave?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daring Deception]

It was Raeburn who made this interruption without any by-your-leave from Swanson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Station Zebra]

Greenwich Village did avenues intersect each other without so much as a by-your-leave?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Like a Light] Reference

And Sam had gone to drive one of the carriages — without so much as a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unlikely Duchess]

They beamed down in the desert and started building without so much as a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three-Minute Universe] Reference

Again it was Early who, without a by-your-leave, spoke up before Ewell attempted to answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference

The Germans took a dim view of people operating on their patch without even a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Resting Place of The Pen] Reference

That was enough to bring me to my feet, reaching for his decanter without even a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]

Without any by-your-leave, he searched through the outer clothing that Dunnet had been wearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way to Dusty Death]

IAM fell in line, again without so much as a by-your-leave from their members, endorsing Kerry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Labor and Netroots] Reference

He comes in here, without so much as a by-your-leave, and starts harassing me to travel with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]

Where but in Greenwich Village did avenues intersect each other without so much as a by-your-leave?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossibles] Reference

Rudi sauntered across and without so much as by-your-leave took hold of my wrist and felt my pulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Flash]

People round here get rid of their whole kitchen in you driveway without so much as a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fly tipping in Maida Vale « Squares of Wheat] Reference

Bandwagon Brian McGrory climbs back into the Mitt Romney Special without so much as a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference

"I am obliged to you for that, kinsman," said his lordship in Gaelic, with a by-your-leave to the cleric.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

They're also planning to sell the digital books they make, without a by-your-leave from the writers thereof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Google Settlement: FAIL] Reference

He helped himself to the wine in Lorryn's pitcher without a by-your-leave, which further argued for a high position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elvenblood]

He rarely exercised the right, Gneiss thought wryly, but when he did, he did so with not so much as a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormblade]

George, on the other hand, was content to sit on the window box all day without so much as a by-your-leave to her or Ira.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot And Bothered]

‘Blake tells me he whisked you away without so much as a by-your-leave this weekend, but he didn’t really explain why ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistress for a Weekend]

And, even if they succeeded, the Imperial Government would take twenty per cent of the gross without so much as a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference

Some skinny red-headed woman has just thrown some hapless fellow down here into my Oubliette without so much as a by-your-leave!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » Casualties.] Reference

Go ahead and put the question to him-or are the great Fader's friends free to use this club without so much as a by-your-leave? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

He had simply gone about his business for the day without a by-your-leave, never mind that he had a wife now who might worry about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tender Rebel]

Without a by-your-leave, Special Investigator Dundee resumed his comfortable seat, and laid the first of the volumes open upon his knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder at Bridge] Reference

"Grandy's sure had his nerve cutting my timber with never so much as a by-your-leave.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Man to Man] Reference

Why, he had only seen her once, and he said he would marry her with never a by-your-leave!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucky O'Connor] Reference

Without even a by-your-leave they took from his feet a pair of new shoes with silver buckles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference

Two pompous, red-cheeked, red-necked individuals stepped forward, without so much as a "by-your-leave!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play] Reference

He took the daisy-chain from her, looking at me the while with something between a "by-your-leave" and a challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts] Reference

Without so much as by-your-leave from the partner of his labours and his life he had sold it and left them destitute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West] Reference

I had coarsely "butted into" a private copper domain without a by-your-leave to the natives who thought it belonged to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference

I suspected him of being too anxious to rid himself of the ambiguous trust imposed upon him without so much as a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man] Reference

Talk about your soft launch - nothing says the genteel South like starting to sell WiMax services without so much as a by-your-leave.    From Wordnik.com.  [MuniWireless] Reference