30 examples of valedictory in sentences

The congregation was assembled, and the horses and vehicles belonging to those who resided at a distance, were tethered and my companion passed, the occupants were chanting a hymn previous to the discourse, which it appeared was a valedictory one, the minister being about to leave this for a more extensive field of pastoral labour.

departing &c v.; valedictory; outward bound.

oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy &c 589; allocution &c 586; conversation &c 588; salutatory : screed: valedictory

Her account of the farewell moments was not without a certain amount of pathos, several other mothers and their boys being involved in the valedictory scene.

Nine years have elapsed since a predecessor in this office, now not the last, the citizen who, perhaps, of all others throughout the Union contributed most to the formation and establishment of our Constitution, in his valedictory address to Congress, immediately preceding his retirement from public life, urgently recommended the revision of the judiciary and the establishment of an additional executive department.

As the white-haired inventor, in whose honor this great demonstration had been organized, stepped forward to deliver his, valedictory, he was greeted with another round of cheering and applause.

His task on this volume had perhaps extended beyond the period of his robust health,it had fagged him,but he had been spared to write every line of it with his own hand, and my own copy is enriched by the autograph of his valedictory.

The subjects of which it treats are "Homoeopathy, and its Kindred Delusions," "Puerperal Fever, as a Private Pestilence," "The Position and Prospects of the Medical Student," "The Duties of the Physician,"a Valedictory Address to the Medical Graduates of Harvard University,"The Mechanism of Vital Actions," "Some more Recent Views of Homoeopathy," and "Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science."

"To gain the valedictory oration was one goal that I had said I would attain to.

His friends were grieved that he had not been chosen to deliver the valedictory address.

And so, of course, will I." With which rather jerky valedictory she finally got herself out of the house.

He alluded to the memorable declaration of Lord Belmore, (made memorable by the excitement which it caused among the colonists,) in his valedictory address to the assembly, on the eve of his departure for England.[A] "Gentlemen," said he, "the resources of this noble island will never be fully developed until slavery is abolished!"

He alluded to the memorable declaration of Lord Belmore, (made memorable by the excitement which it caused among the colonists,) in his valedictory address to the assembly, on the eve of his departure for England.[A] "Gentlemen," said he, "the resources of this noble island will never be fully developed until slavery is abolished!"

There was no particular evidence in hand, he said, that the children liked stories of that kind particularly, adding that the first was only an experiment that it was not necessary to repeat, and so on; polite, but unmistakably valedictory.

Thereupon, wrote he, "I composed the following valedictory, which breathes something of the tenderness of Ossian."

Recognition of services faithfully done is an endless task; but Mr. Punch is glad to print the valedictory tribute of one of the boys in blue to a V.A.D.a class that has come in for much undeserved criticism.

This notice, which frequently is not more than three or four hours, is all that is given them; a regulation rendered necessary to obviate the bustle and confusion heretofore experienced, by their friends and relatives thronging the gates of the prison, accompanied by valedictory exclamations at the departure of the van in which they are conveyed.

His very art, as I shall have later to emphasize, is an art of farewell; but, apart from that general quality, it seemed to me, though, indeed, it may have been mere sympathetic fancy, that in these last New York performances, as in the performances last spring in London, I heard a personal valedictory note.

Jefferson's maneuvering utterly failed to injure Hamilton in Washington's esteem, but it did have the effect of so thoroughly disgusting Washington with public life that at one time he was determined to refuse a reelection, and even went so far as to ask Madison to prepare a valedictory address for him.

The occasion was connected in the public mind with his recent valedictory, and Congress was ready to vote a reply of particularly cordial tenor.

MacKinlay Kantor (A); 19Apr66; R385422. Valedictory.

MacKinlay Kantor (A); 19Apr66; R385422. Valedictory.

VALEDICTORY WORDSWORTH.

VALEDICTORY.

" The searching parties construed this speech as a sort of valedictory to them as, indeed, the captain intended itand greeted it with a cheer.

30 examples of  valedictory  in sentences