“He took a few hours out of his precious time on the eve of going on holiday to compose the valediction.”

“After that came the valediction as they undertook the slowest lap of honor in history, selflessly posing for selfies with, it seemed, everyone who wanted them.”

“He had just heard the huntmaster mark the occasion with a sombre valediction, but pledge to continue the tradition of hunting.”

“Ghost Dance is a book redolent of death and mortality, of eulogies and valedictions.”

“I uttered my valedictions, and made my way out of there very, very quickly.”

“We have an epistolary crisis in this country — a shortfall in valedictions, or sign-offs.”