56 Verbs to Use for the Word partings

" "I can't help feeling the parting with him: and for Paris, too:such a seat of temptation.

If I thought otherwise, Eunané, I could not bear this parting.

By it Captain Alec guided his steps; and he arrived behind the tall gorse bush opposite Tower Cottage just in time to hear the Sergeant say "Mrs. Willnough, Laundress, Inkston," and to witness the parting of the two companions.

He is the Robert [William] Blake whose wild designs accompany a splendid folio edition of the "Night Thoughts," which you may have seen, in one of which he pictures the parting of soul and body by a solid mass of human form floating off, God knows how, from a lumpish mass (fac-simile to itself) left behind on the dying bed.

His guardian, whom he had never seen, and who was a great nobleman and lived in London, had signified to Mrs. Cadurcis his intention of sending his ward to Eton; but that time had not yet arrived, and Mrs. Cadurcis, who dreaded parting with her son, determined to postpone it by every maternal artifice in her power.

This ship, having by this time cleared away one of its guns, was able to fire a parting shot against the vice-admiral, striking her somewhere forward, as our hero could see by a great shower of splinters that flew up in the moonlight.

A remarkable circumstance attended that parting, which has been touched upon by surviving friends in more than one of their letters to me.

My lord the king, lords, all draw near, I pray, And hear a poor man's parting from his child.

With what a revelry of suggestion I planned to speed your parting!

Your pernicious habit of deferring the inevitable parting with money has cost us the services of more than one good man.

They were a lonesome couple, and they deplored their four years' parting from their only boy.

Naming an hour for starting in the morning, the two men shook hands and bade each other good-night, each using his own language to express the parting, though neither one knew a word the other said.

For Wilbur Cowan, beneath this starry welter of creationof worlds to be or in being, or lifeless hulks that had been worlds and were outwornwas on this June night uplifted to face the parting of the ways.

That parting I can never forget.

I hope she missed me just a little, felt just one pang of parting, for I have not got over that parting yet.

It seems the poor fellow was engaged to her, and has given Will a parting present for her.

"Oh, general, do we not look as if we had been having an affecting parting?"

Then they either wear huge wigs, which they use to wipe their hands on without the ceremony of washing them first, or else they wear a black or white or gray satin hood-piece with a line to imitate the parting of the hair embroidered on it.

During the last preparations, Velna and Eveena were closeted together in the chamber of the former; nor did I care to interrupt a parting the most painful, save one, of those that had this day to be undergone.

There lay the parting of the ways.

And I rejoice to know that we are not only fellow-sufferers, but also fellow-believers in the blessed hope of the resurrection from the dead, which makes such a parting holy and beautiful, instead of being merely a blank despair.

Farewell!was it not that one word, which marked the parting of those two, whose hearts had been united above?

Those who loved Oregon described its marvellous advantages over California, and urged home-seekers to select it as the wiser choice; consequently, as we neared the parting of the ways, some of our people were in perplexity which to choose.

Then there must be parting, real black parting again.

And as for Louie, it was no outfit, no costly gift of gold or trouble either, that she could give him: she had nothing for him but a long, fine chain woven of her own hair, and she hung it round his neck with tears and embraces and words that could not be uttered and sighs that changed to sobs, and then came lingering delay upon delay, and passionate parting at the last.

56 Verbs to Use for the Word  partings