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Example sentences for "last farewell"

  • Certainly not, but very faithful friends and devoted servants, who have come to bid you a last farewell.

  • Ada, my wife," said he, "I bid you a last farewell!

  • It was the letter she had written him, that he had always carried next his heart, and that he had taken from its hiding place in the moment of his supreme agony, as if to bid her a last farewell.

  • It had been his secret hope, his dearest wish, during the entire time they had been wandering over the plateau, to see his mount once more, to bid him a last farewell.

  • The red light of the setting sun streamed through the open window and rested on the wall as if in a last farewell; two tapers were burning on a table beside the bed.

  • Take a last farewell, sir, of her sad remains; take the hand you expected to possess once more within your own, and then separate yourself from her forever.

  • He wished to articulate a last farewell, but his tongue lay motionless and heavy in his throat, like a stone at the mouth of a sepulchre.

  • He gave the angry driver a gratuity, and pressed his friend's hand warmly in a last farewell.

  • The young prince thought of this, as he pressed the cold hand to his lips in a last farewell.

  • After giving Theophilus the money collected for him, Schiller had hurried to the post-office, where his friends were waiting to take leave of him, and bid the traveller a last farewell.

  • So in life's sternest, last farewell, may waken A yearning thought, a backward glance be thrown By them who leave: but oh!

  • A few minutes before six in the evening, she opened her eyes and looked at her dear Sisters, as if to take a last farewell of them, then closed them for ever to earth.

  • It was the last caress and the last farewell of this heroic woman to her only child; henceforth he was to be the child of providence, and she was to be as if his mother no more.

  • Crowds were waiting at the door to give me a last farewell, and near twenty friends accompanied me on horseback.

  • Concerning the latter, he writes: "The poor people lamented the loss of him, and went to the water-side to take a last farewell.

  • He returned to the warm embrace of his dear family and bid a last farewell to public life.

  • When he departed from our shores--bid a last farewell to his American friends and our country--he left a painful vacuum in the hearts of millions that was not speedily supplied.

  • He was going out to leave us alone together, but bethought himself in the doorway, and said that I had better go with the minister and take a last farewell of Susanna.

  • Only, he had to promise in return that we should meet the next morning at his house for a few moments, for a last farewell, and that, during the time I was away, he should tell her everything he heard about me.

  • I could not bid her a last farewell, for this house shall never again see me within its walls.

  • Was it a last farewell, or the crushing denunciation of a dying man?

  • Lavretsky did not take his eyes off her till the service was quite finished; he was bidding her a last farewell.

  • Lavretsky wished a last farewell to Liza--and hastened up the steps.

  • But all Palos was filled with gloom, and upon the shore a great crowd gathered to bid a last farewell to these daring adventurers.

  • At length the time came when the last farewell had to be said.

  • At the door, before entering, he turned, and with tears running down his cheeks he signed a last farewell to his people.

  • Thus the people took a last farewell of their great and beloved leader.

  • Twas by my command he went, To bear my last farewell.

  • Forgive my last farewell to you and bliss.

  • I'd brave More than I here shall dare to tell; Thy innocence and mine to save,-- I bid thee now a last farewell.

  • My first conversation was a last farewell, for she was executed with them the next day.

  • It seems to me now, that I can see the unfortunate Monsieur Titon, a counsellor in the parliament of Paris, as he passed beneath the windows of the room of his wife and daughter, who were not even permitted to bid him a last farewell.

  • You, whom I sent to bear my last farewell, Returned, to plead her stay.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    inanimate things; last able; last came; last come; last consented; last effort; last hope; last hour; last lecture; last long; last made; last month; last paper; last reached; last resolved; last resort; last resource; last she; last succeeded; last time; last winter; last word; last words; last year; other articles; spent three