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

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

“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

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