61 adjectives to describe partings

With what kind Care she did prevent my Arm, Which (greedy of the last sad-parting twine) I wou'd have thrown about him, as if she knew To what intent I made the passionate Offer?

It was the only sweetness left in life for her, that this cruel parting was yet for Marco's sake; that she might still plead with the Holy Father for this desperate need of which Marco seemed unconscioussince, in a vision never to be forgotten, the blessed Madre of San Donato had confided this mission to her.

And then it was heartrending to witness their brief partings.

If his kind father felt any pang even at this temporary parting, he was greatly soothed and pleased by a little mark of attention on Clive's part.

And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated; who could guess If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise?

When Miss Panney reached home after her abrupt parting from Dora Bannister, she took a dose of the last medicine that Dr. Tolbridge had prescribed for her.

And lo! if one to die, then the soul of the other shall fail; and that one never to have full life again, in that bitter parting.

His enormous head of curled red hair not only presented a central parting on top and a very much one-sided parting and puffing-out behind, but actually covered both his ears; while his ruddy semi-circle of beard curled inward, instead of out, and greatly surprised, if it did not positively alarm, the looker-on, by appearing to remain perfectly motionless, no matter how actively the stranger moved his jaws.

And so when the dog in his most subtle and delicate manner showed his deep love for the boy, it only made the thought of the inevitable parting harder to bear.

Delwood stood in the door; pale, but not emaciated were the features upon which death had set his seal, her last moment was near, but she had strength and consciousness supported by the Sea-flower, to say a few parting words; with one hand in that of her husband, the other upon the head of her grief-stricken daughter, she said: "farewell, my dearest husband; it is but a little parting; you will meet me there at last."

One of these vessels brought out to the emigrants the sad intelligence of the death of their beloved pastor, John Robinsonhe who had been honored and respected by every Puritan community, whether in Europe or America, and for whose arrival the Pilgrims had looked, with anxious hope, ever since the day of their sorrowful parting in Holland.

The heart which followed with the Moor Was lent him by the maid, And at their tearful parting, "Now guard it well," she said.

Oh, this is a better parting, dear!

They attended the Quarterly Meeting in the latter part of this month, and returned by way of Ackworth, where, says John Yeardley, We had a comfortable parting with dear Robert and Hannah Whitaker, in their own room.

The still, small voice that makes itself a force in the heart, which the poets call our mentor and the moralists conscience, had been painfully garrulous in Kate Boone's breast since the angry parting with Jack at Rosedale.

The speaker rose, cast a discouraged parting look upon her narrow-minded companion and went to investigate the slumbrous silence of the kitchen.

As still he pictured that home afar "The peace and the bliss our own at last When this dreary parting all is past, When my heart's dear love, you come to me In that fairer land beyond the sea.

" They had rather a sad, dry parting; and when her door closed upon him he felt that it had shut him out forever.

There is the real note of human grief, the sorrow of eternal parting.

There it was upon the sand, and holding the candle nearer to it with a certain caution, as though it would spring up and bite me, I saw it was a great full black beard, more than a foot long, but going grey at the tips; and had at the back, keeping it together, a thin tissue of dried skin, like the false parting which Aunt Jane wore under her cap on Sundays.

But for the time being, the young men and women of our day are fast parting from their parents and each other; the more thoughtful are wandering either towards Rome, towards sheer materialism, or towards an unchristian and unphilosophic spiritualism.

Mary (whom you seem to remember yet) is not quite easy that she had not a formal parting from you.

God was merciful to the end, sparing her and hers the agony of a frenzied parting, giving proof to those who were left of the glory and happiness in store for her, by those few words, "It is beautiful!"

Mark was beginning to realize that for him, the life of a Starman would be marked with frequent partings and sorrows.

We mounted, having our packs on our backs, and our guns before us, and with a friendly parting to the people who did not go, all four of us started on a trip of thirty miles to the town of Los Angeles.

61 adjectives to describe  partings