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Example sentences for "parting"

Lexicographically close words:
partidos; partie; parties; partikler; partim; partings; partio; partir; partis; partisan
  1. There nothing shall renew our parting pain, Thou shalt not wither, nor I weep again.

  2. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more!

  3. We are not in America now," was his parting remark; and I am still learning what a variety of moral degeneration that sentence was created to excuse.

  4. As a parting benediction, Tomas stole a lamp of mine, but I haven't the energy to go after him.

  5. I wish you would pray over it,' were Agatha's parting words; and when Gwen got to her room that night she pondered over them.

  6. She confided to her the history of her engagement, and parting with Captain Knox; and the visit lengthened into nearly an hour before Miss Villars took her leave.

  7. The parting was a sad one, and Agatha had wild thoughts of marrying then and there, and going with him as his wife and nurse.

  8. I feel as if this parting is going to be a long one.

  9. The death that came so swiftly and easily, she had time for neither parting word nor kiss.

  10. The superscription was Jessie's; the note the short and cold farewell she had indited after her parting with Orrin Wyllys, on the 6th of September.

  11. It was generally agreed at parting that the week had passed swiftly and delightfully; farewells were linked with hopes of a repetition of the pleasure, and the household relapsed into its ordinary aspect and ways.

  12. Something more than usually fond in Eunice's silent caress at parting from her for the night, brought up a host of reminiscences of the motherly love with which this sister had guarded and nurtured her--the youngling of the household.

  13. The parting from Eunice had been a grievous trial; the journey filled with mournful thoughts of the past that now lay so very far behind her.

  14. But, whatever unction he laid to his soul, the truth would not be downed that two months had elapsed since that parting in the railway station at SŽes during which time he had neither heard from nor of her.

  15. Olga rose, her lips parting in a slow smile.

  16. Now loud laments along the shores resound, Of parting friends in close embraces bound.

  17. Forbear thy threats: my bus'ness is to die; But first receive this parting legacy.

  18. Nor less the queen our parting thence deplor'd, Nor was less bounteous than her Trojan lord.

  19. The prince pursued the parting deity With words like these: "Ah!

  20. They take it for the greatest compliment to their treasures that they should be mistaken for windows; and think the parting of Abraham and Hagar adequately represented, if Hagar seems to be really crying.

  21. Our parting had taken place at the end of April.

  22. The company ran up and insisted on parting them.

  23. The curfew tolls, the knell of parting day.

  24. The curfew tolls,--the knell of parting day.

  25. XI* Monsieur d'Antin did not immediately return to the house after having been an unobserved spectator of the parting scene between Bianca and her lover.

  26. If we should chance to meet again somewhere or other, knocking about the world, I hope I shall find you a trump: give us a parting fist.

  27. I could only seize her hand through the bars and press a parting kiss on it.

  28. With a volley of parting imprecations, half vicious and half facetious, Peter Lars twirled his stick, and went sauntering on his way, whistling.

  29. Had we been two men, or two women, we would have shaken hands at parting and have fraternized on the spot.

  30. The parting of the streams on the Alps is poetically elaborated in a passage attributed to "M.

  31. On arriving, I visited Lieutenant Abbott, and the attenuated unhappy gentleman, his neighbor, sharing between them as my parting gift what I had left of the balsam known to the Pharmacopoeia as Spiritus Vini Gallici.

  32. Captain, afterwards Sir Francis Head, speaks of the showers parting on the Cordilleras, one portion going to the Atlantic, one to the Pacific.

  33. The pure brow curved in lofty arches at the temples, the small eyes looked as clear and bright as they did in the mirror, the firm mouth shaded by a thin moustache, seemed as if it were just parting to utter a friendly word.

  34. When we were ready to go, as a particular mark of good feeling, they brought us parting gifts of smoked deer's fat and were manifestly in earnest in their urgent invitations to us to come again.

  35. Early on the third day after parting from the other men, we found ourselves at the end of Michikamau where a shallow river, in which large bowlders were thickly scattered, flowed into it from the north.

  36. Nothing but a positive order would have turned them back, and I decided to postpone our parting until we reached Michikaumau at least, if it could be postponed so long consistently with safety.

  37. Toward evening we gathered about our fire, and talked of our parting and of the time when we should meet again.

  38. Every night since our parting this had been our chief diversion, and I must confess that with each day that took us farther away from them an increased loneliness impressed itself upon us.

  39. I will not touch you, only once more, for the last time show my wondering eyes the sublime figure and let the soul pour forth all the anguish of parting to the vanishing God.

  40. Three days had passed since the parting from Freyer, but she scarcely knew it!

  41. To the so-called steward also, this must at present serve for a pretext to avoid a tragical parting scene.

  42. Several weeks had now passed since her parting with Freyer, but the apathy with which, from that hour, she had regarded all external things still remained.

  43. I feel your anguish and am stirred as if we were parting from our dearest possession.

  44. A good many undiscussable happenings had intervened between their parting and their meeting, and these interfered sadly with the march of a casual conversation.

  45. The arrangements having been perfected, Brian saw his three hundred men troop off on their march over the hills, after which he told Nuala at greater length all that had taken place in the castle since his parting with her at sea.

  46. It was his first speech since the parting with the Dark Master.

  47. Now, however, your marriage is at hand, and I here give you the cost of a wife, which you may also regard as a parting gift from me.

  48. But though she had made much of its thinness and insufficiency to the Baroness, she was so powerfully affected at parting with it, that all its good qualities came strongly to her mind.

  49. With her evil tongue she is parting my master's daughter and the finest young fellow in the country-side.

  50. But her parting was to be only for a few months.

  51. She was ready to weep over that wasted life of her grandmother's; to weep for that forced parting of true lovers, albeit the tragedy was half a century old.

  52. Once at this parting moment he took both her hands, and drew her nearer to him, peering into her face in the clear evening light.

  53. And now we, too, have reached the parting of the ways so far as this part of the Border Boys’ adventures is concerned.

  54. On parting he singled me out for the privilege of a double French kiss, and on my expressing a hope that we should meet in the Father’s House, he rebuked me for using the word hope.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.