Five days later my fiancée had to return to England to resign her job, arrange her affairs and say good-bye to her family and friends. |
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There are no rituals, there are no institutions, there are no processes that are part of our culture to help us say good-bye. |
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I wanted to express something about the nature of doors, time travel and saying hello and good-bye at the same time. |
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Edith Stein went to Breslau for the last time, to say good-bye to her mother and her family. |
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This culture made it difficult to say good-bye to valued colleagues who have contributed so much. |
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Say good-bye when you are ready to leave, even if your child is playing happily. |
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It was difficult driving away from the village for the last time as all the children crowded around the bus waving good-bye. |
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His head and legs had already been shaved and he had said good-bye to his mother in Edinburgh. |
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He is moderately stern, but amused when Billy stands in the skiff and waves good-bye to his merchant sailor friends. |
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Tlingit people do not use such greetings as hello, good-bye, good afternoon, or good evening. |
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There must be a compulsion to say good-bye, a compulsion to take one's leave of the other; that is, to bid adieu. |
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I walked into the building with him and as we rounded the corner towards his classroom, he waved good-bye and blew me a kiss. |
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Tamils use the typical Hindu namaskar, the joining of the palms of the hands in front of the body, to say hello as well as good-bye. |
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At that very road crossing, he had said a tearful good-bye to his constant companion and best friend. |
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The General calls for everyone to board so Luke gives me one last French kiss and waves good-bye to me before boarding. |
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She waved one last good-bye to her parents who were standing on the other side of the security gates at Kennedy Airport. |
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Then he cheerfully scurries over to Carolyn, closes his eyes, and puckers up for a big good-bye kiss. |
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And so he put his affairs in order, and went around to all his friends and bade them good-bye, and sailed in the leper ship to Molokai. |
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His decision to help out jobless workers stands in stark contrast to the many chiefs who grab the golden parachute and merely wave good-bye. |
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You two don't say grace at meals, or kiss each other good morning, good night or good-bye. |
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The good-bye was difficult for Alice, but she was emboldened by the righteousness of the Southern cause. |
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They had been friends since her girlhood and she couldn't face such a public good-bye. |
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Raine turned to leave, waving her boss good-bye as she wobbled like a goose towards the frost-lined door of the small book-store. |
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I think being a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor. |
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He climbed up the steps three at a time, gave a hasty good-bye to my dear relatives, told me he'd meet me at the hotel, and quickly scrammed. |
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Such places were also used to say good-bye to departing soldiers or pilgrims or to pray communally at times of drought. |
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Members said good-bye to carol maceachern who stepped down from the Council after serving for four years. |
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That was it. No phone call. No good-bye. Nothing. She was as cold as ice! |
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A bridesmaid could be in charge of getting the parents of the couple to come for a last good-bye. |
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Ella Morrissey, in kimonoed comfort, waved a good-bye from her armchair. |
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If cremation is going to occur, family members who want to say good-bye should be given the opportunity to view the body before it is moved. |
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The best one will be a friendly good-bye with the conclusion of North Korean issue. |
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Saturday morning we set off after a warmhearted good-bye, very thankful and facing a new morning. |
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But a picket of soldiers followed the poor coffin to the grave, officers made speeches over it, and her old comrades mustered from all parts of France to say good-bye. |
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Lucie and Manfred were standing nearby, waving the general good-bye. |
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No one can be sure whether the words will be heard or not, but even the act of speaking them can provide comfort to family and friends who wish to say good-bye. |
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We took a picture and with smiles on our faces, we said good-bye. |
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If I'd run up that kind of debt I would have called my father from a banana republic far to the south to say good-bye and hung up before the call could be traced. |
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Having the wake gave me the extra time that I needed to say good-bye, to let go, and also gave me time to realize how lucky I was to have someone like that in my life and to remember the many gifts that he left with me. |
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Canada said good-bye this week to four brave men whose lives were only just beginning when they were gunned down in a senseless act of violence in Mayerthorpe, Alberta. |
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My aim was just to finish the race as way of saying good-bye to my fans and friends and seven laps from the finish I started to have a lot pain in my stomach. |
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Given that we have had our quarrels over the last five years as well as some excellent co-operation, I would like to say good-bye to him and to wish him every success in his new task. |
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It means saying good-bye to habits we know and love. |
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Following the ceremony, the students were given time to say good-bye to their friends, course-mates and instructors before leaving for assignments in districts across southern Afghanistan. |
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Biggie and his friends said good-bye and left the scientist to his work. |
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We waved good-bye to these great migrants of the sky, and I knew those geese would soon pass huge cities on their journey, pass through storm and hunters' shot and slide past borders and checkpoints with a wingwave. |
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Then on the seventh birth date I would wander off alone without a word of good-bye from anyone, up the long and lonely path leading toward a career which I would not have wished upon my worst enemies. |
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A moving and memorable way of saying good-bye to all that, a great writer's requiescat in pace to the Portugal he loved. |
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They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups. |
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As he says good-bye, he puts both arms over his head and stretches big, causing his shirt to lift up a few inches, exposing the sexiest abs and treasure trail I've ever seen. |
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