parting song
Example Sentences
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Instead of the wedding song I was called upon to sing the parting song for the beloved pupil.
From Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson
"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 Caroline Lee Hentz
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 Ruth Sawyer
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 J. L. Hughes
“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 Lillian Elizabeth Roy
