adieus

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Voltaire would be saying his Adieus, in state, among the others, to that high Being,—just in the hours while such a scandalous Hirsch-Concoction went, on underground!

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas

Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

Adieus to the family are said in the bride's room and should be brief.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

Adieus are always saddening, and I close it with the words unspoken.

From The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua by Cleveland, Cecilia Pauline

With a sad Visage he made his Adieus, and he Exacted her Pledge to Write to him Occasionally.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney