"Word of farewell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gentle word of farewell, and did not even look round after him, for she was glad to be alone, and so soon as the sound of his step had died away she gave herself up once more to the overwhelming torrent of new and deep feelings which ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... R.L.S. was once more seized with the desire to roam and to roam farther than ever before. California had been beckoning to him for some time, and in August he suddenly made up his mind, and with scarcely a word of farewell to his family and friends he embarked on the steamship ...
— The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls • Jacqueline M. Overton
... early home and friends, far away from her darling boy, in Baltimore. James, her pride, was at sea, Elizabeth, a sweet little maiden of twelve, had left her to take that last voyage beyond another sea, and Abijah, without one word of farewell, with the silence of long years unbroken, he, too, also! had hoisted sail and was gone forever. And now in her loneliness and sorrow, knowing that she, too, must shortly follow, a great yearning rose up in her poor wounded heart to see once more her child, the comfort and stay ...
— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke
... Good-night. I'm going out of town a bit," he replied, nodding shortly; and without another word of farewell he turned his ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... have but one word yet, and it is a sad one—the word of farewell. Cincinnati, Ohio, farewell! May the richest blessings of the Almighty rest upon thee! In every heart, and in the hearts of my people, thy name will for ever live, a glorious object for ...
— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth
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