How To Use Farewell In A Sentence

Shah went forth with her for a distance of three parasangs; after which he bade farewell to her and the Wazir and those with him, and returned to his home in gladness and safety. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers. Little Women
And if you ever attempt to go forth again to find out new wonders in the world, I shall clasp you round with my arms, as I do now, and keep you prisoner against your will; and if you say 'Farewell' a hundred times to me, I shall blot out that sad word every time with my lips, and put a better one in its place, until my word conquers yours. A Crystal Age
Meanwhile, I will be having a final farewell party this Friday with all my buddies, climbing friends, old coworkers, old classmates and random strangers.
A Muslim group here in Washington, D.C., now revealing what it knows about the investigation, and what it describes as a disturbing farewell video left before they headed off. CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009

On Sunday enjoy a farewell breakfast with your new friends, it will give you a chance to exchange names and addresses with your fellow guests.
He dived triumphantly over and a fabulous farewell party for the Samoan seemed likely. Times, Sunday Times
I stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of reason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "_slave of the soul_" and "_tyrant of reason_. Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
There were many tearful farewells. Titanic - Destination disaster
Hemingway's romance with his nurse inspired him to write 'A Farewell to Arms'.
Hundreds of people attended the famous director's farewell concert.
And before I go, I will hand the two of you a farewell gift.
While next Tuesday's Safety Scissors gig is certified bananas, last Tuesday over at Blizzarts it was a teary eyed rager as the Flexout crew bid a fond farewell to their regular night.
It is time to bid thee farewell, and let someone half thy hoary age step up and take thy place.
Women are different from men, but it is time to say farewell to the politics of difference.
At the age of 11 she was farewelled by her mother and sent to England.
There was hardly a dry eye in the cemetery as we farewelled a friend and relative.
He bids farewell to people at his tastings by declaring that next time he'll see them in Scotland. Times, Sunday Times
The villagers all line the dock, tears welling in their respective eyes, waving a mournful farewell to the departing sailors.
Romance is to bid me farewell, but forget-me-not.
In mutual respect they exchanged farewells and went their separate ways, lost deep in their thoughts.
The Radio 1 DJ bade a tearful farewell on her last day as host of the breakfast show.
The farewell gesture, the offer to bring Livy and her to America, shook Isa as no other presage of war had so far done. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
We've decided to have a farewell party before we leave the school.
A funeral minister and three council workers fooled around in a room where families say final farewells to loved ones. The Sun
No queues of mourners lined the halls to say a final farewell to the man hailed as the workers' hero as his body lay in state at the House of Parliament yesterday.
Bells pealed across Monaco yesterday as the principality praised Prince Albert II's rise to the throne and bid a final symbolic farewell to his late father Rainier III.
Staff, pupils and parents are due to bid a tearful farewell to their Bolton primary school tomorrow.
We will have lots of painful farewells. Christianity Today
Tearfully he bade farewell to those he had loved for the past seven years.
When Pinkerton finally reappears, bringing his American wife with him, Butterfly bids a desperate farewell to her boy before retiring behind a screen to commit hara-kiri.
The boy finished his half, dusted his hands clean, bit his lip, and raised a hand in farewell.
I wished him farewell and left without further ceremony.
His colleagues farewelled him at a dinner and paid tribute.
Mladic attorney Milos Saljic visited him in his jail cell in the early afternoon and said the former general was crying and very emotional during what he called a farewell visit by his wife and sister. Mladic spending night in isolation at UN prison
At the close, however, he won out - in a calmy affectionate, deeply moving farewell. Times, Sunday Times
Recent evictee Rebecca Meyer strolled onto stage for her farewell interview with Leno, and wow, what a transformation! Rebecca Meyer on Leno: Wowza! Hottest 'Loser' ever? | EW.com
Then why did so many military officials accompany the general on his farewell tour?
Hank Greenwald said farewell to the Giants Sunday, and a whole bunch of people had that look.
So saying, the Robin trilled out a pleasant farewell, and returned to the shrubbery grounds, where, in an ivy covered wall, he had found for himself a snug little winter's home. Parables From Nature
The mother's abandonment of the stance of a nostalgic exile is signified by her farewelling her parents at their graveside in Cantonese; she had greeted them on her arrival in Japanese.
The "Southern Republic," from her immense size and unusually handsome equipment, was a novelty even to the river people; and each afternoon of her starting, crowds came aboard to bid farewell to friends and roam over the vessel, or collected on the bluffs above to see her swing out to the shrill notes of her "calliope," the best and least discordant on the river. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
We have to bid farewell to our best friends - the giants, the fairies, Santa Claus and the bogeyman.
And on Saturday customers bade an emotional farewell to butcher Stephen Smith, who shut his Leigh shop for the final time.
His well wishes triggered a round of farewell remarks from other pod members.
Yesterday, half a million people met at Revolution Plaza to bid farewell to the sublieutenant who was killed by one of these criminals who hijacked a boat to travel to the United States. Fidel Castro's 8 Aug News Conference
Rasputin's representative work "A Farewell to Matyora" is such a moral philosophy fiction which puts forward the relationship between progress and morality.
I am very foolish, "says she, sniffing, and presently, when the Prince and Princess withdrew, she was all smiles again, curtseying like billy-ho, and kissing me a tender farewell. Flashman's Lady
On the final day in hospital, before they departed for home, a lone old woman arrived with a farewell gift of a bunch of bluebells.
Sketching a farewell wave to the peaked cap, he drove carefully away from the docks and headed, as he'd been told, for the M4. TICKLED PINK
It is notorious that many of the leases of new dwelling-houses contain a clause against dancing, lest the premises should suffer from a mazurka, tremble at a gallopade, or fall prostrate under the inflictions of "the parson's farewell," or "the wind that shakes the barley. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
Members of the local media and honored guests paid tribute to the local police chief in a farewell party last Friday, October 1.
Farewell then, sir, and once more gratitude and thanks. The Children of the New Forest
They just wanted to get together for one more night and bid my son farewell - to say, ‘We love you, bud, and we're going to miss you.’
Parents and staff have said a tearful farewell to a children's nursery that has closed after 25 years.
We really want to attend to say farewell to a real hero, a legend. The Sun
Young bookworms presented their favourite librarian with farewell cards and a song to mark her retirement.
Finishing her packing hurriedly, she said farewell to the body of Delbert Donnelly and, calling her rosaries to her, made her departure. SACRAMENT
Needless to say though she left the studio offering no apologies, no thanks, no farewells.
They are luxurious but, importantly, designed to allow High Commissioners and Ambassadors to slip away quickly to golf courses or tennis courts after farewelling a Minister or VIP.
It must be autumn at home now – the harbour is a-dream and the old Glen hills blue with haze, and Rainbow Valley a haunt of delight with wild asters blowing all over it – our old 'farewell-summers.' Rilla of Ingleside
No doubt that means we are due for some emotional farewells as the departing maestros of those orchestras come to town and bid us adieu.
Farewells are commonly used rhetorical tools intended to invite the listener/reader into the moment.
Prepare for a hugely emotional farewell next week. Times, Sunday Times
Now we're graduates, people are doing the obligatory year down under, and having the mandatory farewell sessions.
He kissed her cheek one last time, leaning over the counter and bid her farewell as she walked out the door.
Tonight I also went to have another farewell dinner with two of my friends.
All items are for sale and would make fantastic wedding or farewell gifts.
What should have been a fond farewell turned into an endurance test. Times, Sunday Times
This appearance was strictly part of a farewell tour. Times, Sunday Times
Bidding farewell to Ithaca and all that he held dear, he sailed away.
Whether successful or not, the hunter would make a charming farewell and stroll off to make another conquest.
The quote that is allegedly from George Washington's farewell address is also a complete forgery.
We thanked our formidable-looking friend for her company and, presenting her with a John o 'Groat's buckie, bade her farewell. From John O'Groats to Land's End
In the city's lavish beaux-arts facades and lobbies, farewell smooches and the rustle of tipsy last minute fumblings, still linger faintly in the air today.
Then the overmen of the different pits came forward to shake hands with him, whilst the miners waved their caps, shouting, “Farewell, James Starr, our master and our friend!” The Underground City
In the febrile world of showbusiness, farewell tours are common enough. Times, Sunday Times
Regaining his composure, he said his farewell and walked out of the door.
Saying a final farewell to the Princess, who died last Saturday aged 71, were her close family as well as many friends.
This is a season of farewells for an odd family constellation of friends and lovers. Christianity Today
It was a solemn farewell to a great patron of the arts and a doughty supporter of Scottish causes.
Cam's own table was at the stairhead, the better to greet and farewell his guests, and to ask a favoured one occasionally to join him for a quick drink.
I bid a fond farewell to the stack of porno mags beside my bed.
The company rewarded him for his years of service with a grand farewell party and several presents.
She had time for a visit to Middlesbrough for a tearful farewell.
She bade a final farewell to Giovanni, but he simply smiled.
But after struggling to recruit new members, they have decided to disband, and performed for the last time at a farewell party on Tuesday.
Mirah's farewell look and words -- their exquisite appealingness stirring in him that deep-laid care for womanhood which had begun when his own lip was like a girl's -- her hold on his feeling had helped him to be blameless in word and deed under the difficult circumstances we know of. Daniel Deronda
In another country, on the other side of the continent a young woman bid a tearful farewell to her family, friends and well-wishers.
I was on my way across the sparkling bay before the 'Columba' started out again from the pier, and Francesca, standing on the steamer's deck, waved to me a smiling farewell as I went. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
The images of my mother crying and holding on to me as we bid a tearful farewell to our home flashed through my mind.
In his televised farewell speech, he said he was proudest of two accomplishments.
She gave him five minutes to pack an overnight bag under Dexter's supervision and say farewell to his family.
I showed off the flower beds as well: sunflowers, morning glories, shasta daisies, and those pink-faced "farewell-to-springs," or godetia. French Word-A-Day:
On a sunny Friday afternoon, the Open bid farewell to Nicklaus, to date the greatest golfer who has ever lived.
Audiences that are breathless during the sensual desert tryst between Jen and her bandit lover Lo (Chang), later sob their farewells aloud to an old warrior who gives a lovely valediction.
As much as I had hoped for a great farewell, their hour-and-a-half turned into an hour and a half of self-indulgent rock.
Then the overmen of the different pits came forward to shake hands with him, whilst the miners waved their caps, shouting, "Farewell, James Starr, our master and our friend! The Underground City
Farewell, base peasant, and thank God thy fathers were no gentlemen.
A harpsichordist plays Bach's six-part capriccio in farewell to his brother, but her gloved fingers are drumming on sound-boxes.
His farewell speech marked his exit from politics.
I farewelled my Scandinavian companions, and departed on a Kodiak boat with the Americans Judy, Hank and Cody.
The great thing about knowing when your favourite show is cancelled is having the time to make your farewells properly. Times, Sunday Times
Without saying a word, the couple bade a fond farewell to their deceased friends and family.
As a kind of farewell to 2003, I wrote a little squib for Warren Ellis this morning, as part of a series of ruminations on the future that he's putting together on Die Puny Humans.
When the sun began to set, we returned to the stables, and after a leisurely and passionate farewell, we parted.
Prince Ptolemy, farewell, and of thee will I make mention, even as of the other demigods; and a word methinks I will utter not to be rejected of men yet unborn, -- excellence, howbeit, thou shalt gain from Zeus. Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose
She hosts a grand farewell dinner party before she moves out, which is a great success.
This is a season of farewells for an odd family constellation of friends and lovers. Christianity Today
Kilmaine parish bade a fond farewell to its most senior resident in recent weeks.
The farewell dinner is at the historic Abbey Tavern, located in the fishing village of Howth.
Not even Vicenzo da Lozzo, the letter-writer, was glad of the day, although people besieged his desk under the court-house loggia, and were more than willing to pay him a soldo a word, if they only might write a line of farewell on this their last day to their dear ones far away. The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
She bade farewell to her mother at Nyköping, then hastened to Halmstad, where she dismissed her retinue, and went to Brussels by way of Hamburg and Antwerp. Kristina Wasa, Queen of Sweden
Having bid farewell to Iain Gray at the end of the last session in suitably supercilious tones the Labour leader having announced his intention to demit office, the first minister will have the same look on his face that he normally reserves for his favourite chicken tikka masala. Come on, someone must want to lead Labour | Kevin McKenna
And all the crew took turns to slip into the frock to record their farewell messages before she left clutching a bunch of flowers. The Sun
Outside Vealös we had the pleasure of waving a last farewell to a man to whom the expedition will always owe a debt of gratitude, Captain Christian Blom, Superintendent of the dockyard, who had supervised the extensive repairs to the Fram with unrelaxing interest and obligingness. The South Pole~ On the Way to the South
Then, sadly, they bade farewell to their beloved village and walked together into the forest, leaving behind the dangers that the humans threatened to bring to them.
The weekend before school broke up, Emily threw a farewell party for Liz and Steven.
The comparative figure study leads us back to the first draft of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address of January 17, 1961, in which the following statement was made by a two term outgoing Republican chief executive who served as Supreme Allied Commander in World War Two in a previous role as General Eisenhower: Healthcare not Warfare: Compare U.S. Military Spending to China's
With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you all an affectionate farewell.
That night, they held an impromptu party on the river's edge, where friends and friends of friends partied into the wee hours, drinking home-brewed orange hooch and saying farewell.
Butterfly hugs him hysterically, then bids him a heart - rending farewell.
A chapel beside the ruins of the World Trade Centre was the place chosen by New York's outgoing mayor to deliver his farewell address yesterday.
The children and staff at the school said farewell to Mick at the end of term last week, but he has not quite finished.
On Sunday enjoy a farewell breakfast with your new friends, it will give you a chance to exchange names and addresses with your fellow guests.
Once I made a half-hearted suggestion about bidding farewell to Blowitz, who expected me to get out at Vienna and might wonder where I'd got to; Willem gave me a slantendicular smile and said Kralta would send him a note. Watershed
All of his last day was given over to a farewell party with a buffet lunch, presentations and speeches.
The epic mini-series bids farewell with a shocking conclusion. The Sun
Farewell then, sir, and once more gratitude and thanks. The Children of the New Forest
If you do that, you can bid farewell to the count and pretty much eat as much as you like. Times, Sunday Times
Deal with them now and you might just say farewell for good. Times, Sunday Times
Then they farewelled him and went down to look after the safety of their troops; and they ceased not to keep up the fires till the morning rose with its sheen and shone, when the fighting-men mounted their horses of noble strain and smote one another with thin-edged skean and with brawn of bill they thrust amain nor did they cease that day battle to darraign. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
On a sunny Friday afternoon, the Open bid farewell to Nicklaus, to date the greatest golfer who has ever lived.
For many, saying farewell to those left behind on land is the hardest part.
Little he thought, as he took his farewell, that his fogle had followed his watch.
It took ‘Farewell My Concubine’ to hook me into non-English celluloid.
Verbal testimony connected his great poem of farewell and consolation, for example, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (with its famous image of the couple as “stiffe twin compasses”) with Donne’s departure for France in 1611. The Biographical Fallacy
Rasputin's representative work "A Farewell to Matyora" is such a moral philosophy fiction which puts forward the relationship between progress and morality.
Farewell plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue!
We left Chipewyan at 6.15; at 11.15 camped below the Peace on Great Slave River, and bade farewell to the steamer. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
Once a relative even asked the representative of the receiver to kowtow to the dead at the farewell ceremony.
With the gallery six deep from tee to green on every hole for those two rounds, Jack's farewell drew an appropriate and appreciative audience.
Can you tell them farewell, farewell no more to meet them on earth, can you Oh! can you leave them and native land far, far in heathen lands to dwell, can, you say, Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie HoustonMay 1857
Of course, this is no fond farewell as Lynn strolls off into the sunset.
Everything ends eventually, and the farewells of the cast were prolonged and tearful.
Farewell to My Concubine" is a powerful film ... a landmark ...It successfully merges the commercialism of HK moviedom with the artistic purity of China's "Fifth-generation" directors.
A Tropical Farewell, the last concert in Civic Theatre, did seem to be something of a summing-up: Sculthorpe again and two big Romantic pieces played by half of the festival artists.
As a last farewell and tribute to John, the local choir gave a rendition of Auld Lang Syne at the graveside.
At her farewell party, Monika danced a waltz with one of the Mariinsky's ballerinas and was presented with retirement gifts of carrot cake, a pinafore and a kerchief.
When they toured the west coast on their ‘farewell tour’, I futzed and fumbled for weeks when they chose not to play Los Angeles, and logistical challenges kept me from making the six-hour drive to the San Francisco show.
In Chapter 4, the derivation of George Washington's farewell address is traced.
York played host to the tenth and final leg of Chapman's month-long UK tour, and an eager audience gave her a warm welcome and a fond farewell.
Long after the farewell he was kept passive by a weight of retrospective feeling. Daniel Deronda
She was sorry to bid farewell to Portugal.
The sun made its final farewell, so he flipped on a lamp and sat down on the soft mattress.
Yet here he was, back again, once more bidding farewell to touring. Times, Sunday Times
I had no trouble stopping taking weed and after one farewell joint, gave up.
I said a silent farewell to my village as I left for the city.
He will be giving his farewell concert as Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra.
Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too! Mehmet Murat ildan
‘Okay bye-bye, my love,’ she said as her farewell.
The most melancholy thing in life is a farewell between those in love,even though it is but for a short time.
he disliked long farewells
Mounting the intellectual case after we've farewelled our troops is disgraceful.
It was a custom to offer a welcome or farewell drink, usually whisky, in a quaich to a guest. Archive 2008-03-01
There was raw chicken on a driftwood slab for this farewell meal too.
Apart from his ritual farewell, Truman's act of self creation is otherwise represented as a repudiation of all social connection.
Hemingway's romance with his nurse inspired him to write 'A Farewell to Arms'.
I hailed a cab and waved a farewell to Benny as I got in.
Farewell, the future in which a semi-imperial coronet hand gleamed! even that where a cascade of gold coin inundated the new Danae. The Son of Clemenceau
You are left wondering how anything as terrible as the anguish detailed in King's Crossing or Fond Farewell could inspire music this lovely, with its soaring choruses and beatific harmonies and irresistible pop sensibility.
A serious countenance did he bear as he passed through the two courts which separated his lodging from the festal chamber, and solemn as the gravity of a hogshead was the farewell caution with which he prayed Ludovic to attend his nephew’s motions, especially in the matters of wenches and wine cups. Quentin Durward
The cask of Oakham Bishops Farewell is a full firkin which is about 80 pints. Long Island Beer Events
Members of the local media and honored guests paid tribute to the local police chief in a farewell party last Friday, October 1.
He will be giving his farewell concert as Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra.
Mossy cliffs -- flowing cascades -- "chiefless castles breaking stern farewells" -- all these were met, and met again, as through Brixen, they reached the village of Mülks. A Love Story
Her parchment eyelids, more half-shut than half-open, drooped in a mournful farewell. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
And, stuffing the wad of notes into my wallet and the few coins into my purse I said farewell to my old savings account and its pass book.
A musing and honest look at one male's take on the title subjects and their connections, and a loving farewell to the best of teachers. Printing: On Women, Love, Sex and Art
She lets out a throaty chuckle: ‘I've just come back from a humungous family farewell myself.’
But an expedition organised by the charity Cape Farewell discovered something perplexing. Times, Sunday Times
Rumours have abounded that he has already held a farewell drinks party for his staff.
There was an overtone of regret in his farewell speech.
New Zealand Department of Conservation spokesman Trish Grant said, the pilot whale stranding South Island tourist city located about 150 km west of Nelson's farewell Sha Tsui.
It was on the 28th of September, 1880, that several of my friends and relatives had gathered in the parlor to have what they called a farewell chat with me while I was yet their girl companion. My own life, or, A deserted wife,
bid farewell
There was no farewell kiss, merely a nod of mutual understanding.
Apparently City's owners had decided he was not a front-of-house man, but you can't keep a blunderer down, and I'm glad to say this comeback had all the inevitability of another Barbra Streisand farewell tour. Manchester City's Garry Cook – a man for football's crazy times | Marina Hyde
Farewell, gammer; thanks and gramercy for your goods! Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Bogart and Bergman's heart-rending airstrip farewell is enshrined as one of the all-time great endings, and was pastiched to great effect in Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam.
Marcus reciprocated the farewell gesture by slightly nodding his head and slowly blinking his large, intelligent eyes.
The great thing about knowing when your favourite show is cancelled is having the time to make your farewells properly. Times, Sunday Times
There were a few tears shed as we loaded the last bits and pieces into our makeshift removal van and bade our farewells. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
Half-time: Matt Murray, the retired 29-year-old former Wolves goalkeeper, is saying farewell to his former fans at the interval, with the aid of several former teammates including, yes, Lee Naylor. Wolves v Aston Villa – as it happened
Eddie Panlilio finally bid farewell to priesthood and his clerical ministries as he filed his certificate of candidacy Asian Games-bound Filipino athletes a passionate three-word sendoff storms that left over 1,100 people dead and 1.7 million AFTER rocketing into position as a strong third player in the TV industry, WN.com - Articles related to Arroyo for Congress is a comedy, tragedy -- Bro. Eddie
Friday evening last a thanksgiving and farewell mass was concelebrated in Our Lady of Mercy Church in honour of the Sisters of Mercy.
And if you truly love that small store of yours, prepare for a tearful farewell.
As per tradition, kids are inking farewell messages on each other's uniforms.
258 Then, O my lady, the Captain wept with exceeding weeping and we all made sure of death doom and each and every one of us farewelled his friend and charged him with his last will and testament in case he might be saved. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Sister Maddelena accepted the terms joyfully, wrote a last farewell to Michele, fastened the note to the rope, and with her own hands cut the rope and saw it fall coiling down to the valley bed far below. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories

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