"Leave-taking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The leave-taking was unemotional. Jack had announced suddenly and loudly in the smoking-room before dinner that he was going to see the last of Frank, as far as the churchyard; Frank had protested, but had yielded. The rest had all said good-by to him in the hall, and ...
— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson
... basket of her own manufacturing, and, repeating the words, "blockhouse good," she glided out of the bushes and across the narrow passage, as noiselessly as she had come. Mabel waited some time to catch a signal of leave-taking or amity after her friend had landed, but none was given. The adjacent islands, without exception, were as quiet as if no one had ever disturbed the sublime repose of nature, and nowhere could any ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... not harrow the reader's feelings by describing the leave-taking of the Eskimos from their friend the Kablunet. After he was gone those men of the North remained a considerable time at the settlement, listening to the missionaries as they revealed the love of God to ...
— Red Rooney - The Last of the Crew • R.M. Ballantyne
... same event, he observes in another place: "In speaking of the leave-taking of the College by my class, on the 21st of June, 1798,—Class Day, as it is now called,—I inadvertently forgot to mention, that according to custom, at that period, [Samuel P.P.] Fay delivered a Latin Valedictory Oration in the ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall
... great deal of leave-taking and much smiling and bowing, Yoritomo found time to say ...
— The Motor Maids in Fair Japan • Katherine Stokes
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