parting song

Example Sentences

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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

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 Alverson, Margaret Blake

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

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