"Parting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... men clasped hands, more like friends parting for a long absence than two enemies about to meet on the battlefield. There was a simple grandeur, full of majesty, in this action. Each raised ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere
... among the spectators; the crowd was parting, and Elaine was coming through, followed by her mother and Lady Sandrasan and five or six other matrons. They all had their shawls over their heads, right ends over left shoulders; they all stopped except Elaine, who took a few steps forward and confronted ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper
... obtain the confidence of Loggo, as my success depended much upon information that I might obtain from the natives; therefore, whenever I sent for him to hold any conversation with the people, I invariably gave him a little present at parting. Accordingly he obeyed any summons from me with great alacrity, knowing that the interview would terminate with a "baksheesh" (present). In this manner I succeeded in establishing confidence, and he would frequently ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker
... Before parting with this subject we will give one or two examples to indicate how often the number 33 is employed to ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
... parting with Sybil more than any one else. She was also anxious, and as much out of spirits as it seemed possible for so happy a creature to be, for Hector had naturally told her that Allan Keith had gone to obtain reinforcements for the garrison of the fort, and had expressed his surprise ...
— The Frontier Fort - Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America • W. H. G. Kingston
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