parting song

Example Sentences

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As Hymen sang her parting song, Patsy scanned the sea of faces beyond the bank of juniper which served instead of footlights.

From Seven Miles to Arden by Sawyer, Ruth

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

He soon after asked Edith for a parting song, and while listening to her sweet voice, as it mingled with the breezy strains of the harp, my excited spirit recovered its equilibrium.

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

His parting song to Clarinda is, in the opinion of many literary men, the greatest love-song of its kind ever written.

From The Real Robert Burns by Hughes, J. L.

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