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Sentences starting with parting

Parting the bushes after her, Clarence found his cousin confronting a large man, whom he recognized as the carrier who brought messages from the South. [9]

Sentences ending with parting

I must talk with him, and--you no longer have any thought of a parting? [10]
All the affection which bound the sisters together found expression at this moment of parting. [10]
Our dead are welcome there; their life made it beautiful, their death has hallowed it, we shall have them with us always, and there will be no parting. [5]
It was only to divert her suspicions that the false woman had been so affectionate at parting. [10]
Susan Posey showed the truthfulness of her character in her words to Gifted at parting. [6]
Is this all that love can grant to love--that a betrothed owes to her lover on the very eve of parting? [10]
He had made, perhaps, his greatest impression when I had shaken his hand in parting. [9]
And one word more: When a man has grown gray, it is doubly soothing to his heart that a lovely maiden should so frankly regret the parting. [10]
Could anything be more commonplace than such a parting? [4]
I have been long with you, and I find it hard parting. [6]

Short sentences using parting

Bartja sends his parting greetings. [10]
Yes, the parting! [10]

Sentences containing parting two or more times

Often she had longed for nothing so fervently as to be able to quit it; but to-day it filled her with dread, for parting from her uncle necessarily involved parting from his son. [10]

More example sentences with the word parting in them

At length parting words were uttered in louder tones, the door of the cell was locked and the prisoner approached his window. [10]
He took post with Judge Short at the foot of the stair, where, in spite of the protests of the Celebrity and of other well-disposed persons, the two favored the parting guests with an occasional impromptu song and waved genial good-byes to the ladies. [9]
Dear, faithful reader, whose patient eyes have followed my reports through these long months, you and I are about parting company. [6]
An effete celebrity, who would never be heard of again in the great places until the funeral sermon waked up his memory for one parting spasm, finds himself in full flavor of renown a little farther back from the changing winds of the sea-coast. [6]
If you yourself were such a son, and your ear had not perfectly caught the parting counsels of the dying-how many talents of silver would you not pay to be able to supply the missing words? [10]
Their parting words were few and unremarkable. [11]
Our parting words were as brief as, of necessity, they had been on our journey through the mountains, for the ladies had ridden the horses which we had sent over for ourselves from Viking, and we men walked in front. [11]
Yes, we knew we must lose him,--though friendship may claim To blend her green leaves with the laurels of fame; Though fondly, at parting, we call him our own, 'Tis the whisper of love when the bugle has blown. [6]
And so there was no parting, for in his fancy I went with him; he knew not but I went with him, my hand in his--my young soft hand, not this withered claw. [5]
But the danger was increasing every moment, and, warm as was the parting, the last clasp of the hand and kiss swiftly followed the first words of greeting. [10]
After the boat was fast to the landing stage he remained watching the captain, who was speaking a few parting words to some passengers of fashion. [9]
The parting was very painful to him, and when Hermas saw his eyes full of tears and felt his hands tremble, he said, "Do not be troubled about me, Paulus; we shall meet again, and I will never forget you and my father. [10]
With herself--depreciation and unselfishness she would have been the last to believe how much of him was in her very existence; nor could we have realized it until the parting came. [6]
The doctor gave Ulrich many an admonitory word, his wife kissed him, and as a parting remembrance hung a small gold ring, with a glittering stone, about his neck, and old Rahel gave him a kerchief full of freshly-baked cakes to eat on his way. [10]
The thread was twined; its parting meshes through From hand to hand her restless shuttle flew, Till the full web was wound upon the beam, Love's curious toil,--a vest without a seam! [6]
A Mormon Emigrant Train--The Heart of the Rocky Mountains--Pure Saleratus--A Natural Ice-House--An Entire Inhabitant--In Sight of "Eternal Snow"--The South Pass--The Parting Streams--An Unreliable Letter Carrier--Meeting of Old Friends--A Spoiled Watermelon--Down the Mountain--A Scene of Desolation--Lost in the Dark--Unnecessary Advice --U.S. [5]
The lictors and townwatch could generally succeed in parting the combatants, for the orders of the authorities were that they should in every case side with the Romans. [10]
He had come to the parting of the ways of life, and while he did not hesitate to choose his path, a Vane inheritance, though not dominant, could not fail at such a juncture to point out the pleasantness of conformity. [9]
It was pitiful to see how the people in his train who did not belong to the number of those who were to accompany him to Jarandilla behaved at the parting from their beloved master. [10]
Now we want to put in one parting blast for luck. [5]
I was going to offer him my parting salutation, but he turned his back upon me, saying: Once more you have escaped punishment, Athenian; but you cannot elude my vengeance. [10]
Finally, I have to meet a more serious charge, that Mr. Hodder remains in the Church because of "the dread of parting with the old, strong anchorage, the fear of anathema and criticism, the thought of sorrowing and disapproving friends. [9]
I supposed it to hold some pretty gimcrack, sent as a pleasant parting token of remembrance. [6]
He was encouraged to chance a parting shot, now, at the same target, and did it. [5]
And he began to be very much troubled about the parting of his hair, and how to find out on which side was the natural part. [4]
It remains only to address to them some friendly words of cheering counsel, and to bestow upon them the parting benediction. [3]
They tiptoed out, through the broken weather-boarding, and stopped at a little distance to exchange a parting word. [5]
She felt as though this were her last parting from her lover, and the sun would never shine on earth again. [10]
And suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days when he first loved her. [2]
She had bid them good-night as devotedly and tenderly as though they were parting for life. [10]
The parting of the streams on the Alps is poetically elaborated in a passage attributed to "M. Loisne," printed in the "Boston Evening Transcript" for October 23, 1859. [6]
When we reached the sidewalk my chief gave me a few parting instructions. [9]
And how different the parting with them was, from any she had expected, and most of all from that which she had oftenest pictured to herself. [12]
And he felt the parting too, felt it deeply; however, I am his confidential secretary, and it would never do for me to tell tales out of school. [10]
But there, at the parting of the stairs, was the triple-arched window which he had described. [9]
There only remained the parting from our kind entertainer, the Vice-Chancellor, who added another to the list of places which in England and Scotland were made dear to us by hospitality, and are remembered as true homes to us while we were under their roofs. [6]
Before parting for the night Marie said to Hugh: "This is what I wish you to do for me to bring over two of your horses to Point Assumption on the river. [11]
Those thoughtful eyes, the light on the lofty brow, the delicate lips, which seemed about parting to utter some wise or witty word--he had not painted them, never, never could he have accomplished such a masterpiece. [10]
We clung to the hours and the minutes, counting them as they wasted away, and parting with them with that pain and bereavement which a miser feels who sees his hoard filched from him coin by coin by robbers and is helpless to prevent it. [5]
The baron allowed the hideous landlord to kiss his hand at parting, but Nicolas would not suffer him to touch his. [10]
The sight of the gold piece, indeed, had suddenly revived in Janet the queer feeling of faintness, almost of nausea she had experienced after parting with Lottie Myers. [9]
Someday I will tell you about our parting and all that was said then. [2]
She described, with tears in her eyes, how painful their parting had been, and laughed again, as she told how an ivy leaf in her hair had nearly betrayed everything to her father. [10]
He was a strange gentleman, now jolly enough to make me shake with laughter and forget the sorrow of my parting, now moody for a night and a day; now he was all sweetness, now all fire; now he was abstemious, now self-indulgent and prodigal. [9]
So have I stood before this parting day, With chilly fingers pressed upon my breast, That my heart burst not fleshen bands away, And my sharp cry break through my lady's rest. [11]
One of these sorrows had been the parting with the Merrill family. [9]
And a parting shot of the delighted colonel brought the crimson to my face. [9]
On parting we shook hands, and she said, 'We are friends now, are we not? [14]
The uttermost that she longed for, as the fruit of the seed she had sown and which she longed to see ripen, had not yet come to pass--and to see that she would endure anything, even death and parting from this deceitful, burning, unlovely world. [10]
While they were saying their parting words I slipped out and set my course for Marget's house to see what was happening there. [5]
Near the door sat Miss Sophy, still fluttered and confused by the attentions of Mr Cheggs, and by her side Richard Swiveller lingered for a moment to exchange a few parting words. [12]
Suddenly her heart sank; but again she remembered their last parting, and once more she was sure he would be glad to have her with him. [11]
At parting, Aristomachus said: "Salute Gyges in my name; tell him I ask his forgiveness, and hope one day either to enjoy his friendship, or, if that cannot be, to meet him as a fair foe on the field of battle. [10]
I considered myself safe from parting from him because of my extravagant price. [5]
It was a sad parting, for now we had no swallow-tail coats and white kid gloves to wear at Pawnee receptions in the Rocky Mountains, and no stove-pipe hats nor patent-leather boots, nor anything else necessary to make life calm and peaceful. [5]
Mary joyfully took possession of the ring; but presently, when the warder appeared to fetch her, her satisfaction suddenly turned to no less vehement grief, and she took leave of Orion as if they were parting for ever. [10]
There was a parting, a lapse of years, and then the meeting on the 'Fulvia': with it, partial restoration of Mrs. Falchion's influence, then its decline, and then a complete change of position. [11]
Presently, without a parting word, Joe began to wade off toward the Illinois shore. [5]
Captain Argall, after parting with his consort, without reaching the Bermudas, and much beating about the coast, was compelled to return to Jamestown. [4]
If only the parting were over and we were together again! [10]
Every detail of parting was anguish to him. [8]
The moment of parting had come. [11]
The thought of parting from her little brothers and sisters was terrible and cruel, and never left her mind for an instant, while, accompanied by Hannah in person, she made her way back to Lochias. [10]
When far on our road, we had a parting view of the Parthenon, with the moonlight streaming through its open colonnades and touching its capitals with silver. [5]
Greeting and parting often go hand in hand. [10]
Mary was thinking of the poor sufferer: what pain he had to bear, and how the parting from Paula would grieve him, when Katharina came towards her down the path. [10]
Pythagoras, the noblest of the Greeks, gave it to my mother, when he was tarrying in Egypt to learn the wisdom of our priests, and it was her parting gift to me. [10]
When the moment of parting came, Pierre was not there. [11]
There was, first of all, the parting with Jethro and the messages with which he and Ephraim were laden for the whole village and town of Coniston. [9]
Herr Adrian did not mention what a favour the sovereign was showing Barbara by parting with his trusted servant for several days, but she told herself so with joyful pride, for she had learned how greatly Charles needed this man. [10]
Her death had never been even a remote possibility to his mind, though the parting had had the decisiveness of death. [11]
I had not needed to be told that the matter in hand would cost money, but Mr. Watling's parting instruction to me had been to take the Colonel's advice as to specific sums, and obtain confirmation from Fowndes. [9]
Of the tenderness, nay, of the pity and cruelty of that parting, I have no power to write. [9]
As I wrung my friend's hand at parting, I said: "Haven't we had a royal good time! [5]
But parting from my best friend, my second mother, agitated me so painfully--it was so unspeakably sad.--I did not know how to hold up my head, it ached so when I came home, and now--oh, I had hoped that we might meet to-day so differently! [10]
Weep not, ye must not at parting repine, I go to seek fortune, good fortune! [10]
Bartja murmured Mithras means to make our parting difficult. [10]
He never gave me what is called filial affection, not even just now in the parting hour; yet he is an obedient son who understands his father. [10]
Yesterday, in a lucid moment, her dying father had given her his fondest blessing, little knowing what hung over her; to-day he had not come to himself, and had neither noticed nor returned her parting kiss. [10]
I pass the low wall where the ivy entwines; I tread the brown pathway that leads through the pines; I haste by the boulder that lies in the field, Where her promise at parting was lovingly sealed. [6]
The friends I left that parting day, How changed, as time has sped! [7]
So he could leave her without anxiety; but she, even in the hour of parting, was too proud to offer him a glimpse of her desolate life, whose fairest ornaments were memories. [10]
The parting between Laura and her mother was exceedingly painful to both. [5]
At parting, he kissed Melissa, and murmured "Would you really drive your old father out of our dear home, away from his work, and his birds--from his garden, and your mother's grave? [10]
If any had, it had still felt for it a love like that which captives have been known to bear towards the cell in which they have been long confined, and, even at parting, hung upon its narrow bounds affectionately. [12]
But I chose it because I could have it to myself, and I resign it, with a wish that it were more worthy of regret, into the hands of my successor, with my parting benediction. [6]
If either lady is about to leave the city, she goes to the other's house and leaves her card with "P. P. C." engraved under the name--which signifies, "Pay Parting Call. [5]
Sometimes he fell into conversations with them, and it was noticeable that they nearly always shook hands with him at parting. [9]
This parting had indeed fallen heavily on her soul, but at the same time it released her from a mountain of anxiety that had oppressed her breast. [10]
Kindliness of feeling increased with familiarity and grew into something better than acquaintance, and the parting with most sincere and affectionately disposed friends in the end was deeply felt on both sides. [6]
There is sunshine in the face of all--a kind of Indian summer sunshine, infused with the sadness of a coming winter; and theirs is the winter of parting. [11]
But he could imagine a parting with some sweet daughter of France, and he added another verse to the thrilling of the heart of Casimir Delavigne: "Beloved Isaure, Her hand makes sign-- No more, no more, To rest in mine. [11]
Mr. Merrill wondered if Jethro's sorrow were caused by this parting alone; he believed it was not, and suddenly guessed at the true note of it. [9]
He recovered from his wound only too rapidly, for Myrtle had visited him daily in the military hospital where he had resided for treatment; and it was bitter parting. [6]
Ulrich's parting with his mother was not a hard one. [10]
John Osgood accompanied his friend to the sea, but the name of Barbara Golding was not mentioned, nor was any reference made to her until the moment of parting. [11]
When I told him, he said patiently, "Wair good," and made his parting salute, and went out from us to return no more forever. [5]
And when, as her train pulled out, Honora bade him goodby, she felt the tug at her heartstrings which comes at parting with an old friend. [9]
When Susannah kissed her at parting for the night she complained of a slight sore throat and of her lips, which she fancied must be swollen. [10]
So from the heights of Will Life's parting stream descends, And, as a moment turns its slender rill, Each widening torrent bends, From the same cradle's side, From the same mother's knee, --One to long darkness and the frozen tide, One to the Peaceful Sea! [6]

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