parting song

Example Sentences

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She told her most amusing stories, and finally induced Sir Thomas Wynton and her brother, mother, and sister to join her in the parting song of "Auld Lang Syne."

From A Reconstructed Marriage by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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 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

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

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