parting song

Example Sentences

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The company is then regaled with cakes and ale, and the revellers depart, pausing outside the door to sing a parting song of thanks and good wishes to their entertainers.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

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

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

Then the parting song was sung, and the students retired to their rooms in one of the college dormitories.

From Walter Sherwood's Probation by Alger, Horatio

"Certainly, I do; I have heard nothing so sweet as your voice, dear Edith, since I heard your last parting song."

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee