parting song

Example Sentences

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When the meeting broke up, they all came round in procession, shaking hands with the superintendent and the strangers present, and singing a parting song, "There's a meeting here to-night!"

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

I know not,—yet farewell   Sweet home of mine,—my parting song is o'er, And stranger forms among your bowers shall dwell,   Where I return no more.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by MacLean, Kate Seymour

“The parting song and then we say good-night,” said Zan, and the Woodcrafters all stood to join in the Indian hymn.

From The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

Arion chose the latter, and as a last favour begged permission to sing a parting song.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

They bade farewell, German student fashion, singing together beforehand the parting song Abschied.

From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Tytler, Sarah