I bid you all a fond valediction, but I must move on. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
It is hard to think of a more pompous valediction. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Voracious vermin value vindictive valediction versus veracity. From Wordnik.com. [O] Reference
Letter from the President: To Kofi Annan - an early valediction!. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
One settling on a child is always sent away with this sad valediction. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849] Reference
A valediction of the eternal truth that man is mortal. From Wordnik.com. [Flirting With Immortality] Reference
To the valediction of the gramophone hid in the bushes the audience departed. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Acts] Reference
It happens just before he signs off an email, forcing him to rethink his valediction. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea Monster] Reference
Gwe posted a short valediction this morning, citing difficult times in his real life. From Wordnik.com. [Where's GWE Gone] Reference
Are you ever going to write a Mortimer/Rumpole valediction, or are you still too sad?. From Wordnik.com. [Ask me anything] Reference
"Are you ever going to write a Mortimer/Rumpole valediction, or are you still too sad?". From Wordnik.com. [Ask me anything] Reference
When Steve stopped posting to the TM Forum I posted this valediction, which I've quoted bits from before. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-05-22] Reference
Their last valediction, + thrice uttered by the attendants, was also very solemn, and somewhat answered by. From Wordnik.com. [Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial] Reference
But during her two-minute valediction on the show, Couric never did reveal what her new gig was going to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Katie Factor] Reference
With this heart-felt valediction ringing in my ears, we swung slowly out into the waters of Wilmington harbor. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
To paraphrase the classic Tory ministerial valediction, she was resigning to spend more time with her regrets. From Wordnik.com. [It's October, 1956.] Reference
But the spirit of rebellion, as exhibited by this youthful cheeky valediction, should not be so harshly squelched. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Malanowski: Moon Over Suburbia] Reference
Shakespeare put his valediction into the mouth of Prospero; Sophocles entrusted his to his greatest creation Oedipus. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Shall we pronounce the sad valediction to freedom, and immolate liberty on the altars our fathers have raised to her?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884] Reference
And he closed with the gloomy valediction that "the land still carried the evident marks of conquest and settlement.". From Wordnik.com. [Burning Bright] Reference
He looked at me complacently, smiled good-naturedly, returned my salutation (or rather my valediction), and we parted. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
To me, Rumsfeld's valediction (in which he did lob a few last tautological epigrams) is only cause for more celebration. From Wordnik.com. [Joshuah Bearman: Cut and Rumsfeld] Reference
With that as a valediction I switched off; soon afterwards I picked up Bournemouth and spoke for a little to the superintendent there. From Wordnik.com. [Marazan]
To them, and to Wiglaf, Beowulf spoke his valediction, urging on them to maintain the honour of the land of the Goths, and then he said. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
This Alpine Symphony was dramatic but still largely obvious, passing by any sense of valediction that can take the piece to another level. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
The passage he read not only describes her own life, it is her valediction to us, her final instruction about how we should live our lives. From Wordnik.com. [President Remarks At Pamela Harriman Funeral] Reference
He turned half-way up the stairs to cry his customary valediction. From Wordnik.com. [Nights in London] Reference
Burke, Edmund, 176; his valediction to the spirit of chivalry, 201. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
A valediction both in English and back in Latin meant a "farewell speech.". From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
It may now be read as my parting address and valediction, made to my friends. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference
This valediction was meant as prelude to a fresh appearance in a new disguise. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference
'Punk RIP', is a shrill valediction to the glory days of Da Pistols and Sham 69. From Wordnik.com. [Music Emissions Alternative Music Reviews] Reference
I gave him the usual Spanish valediction (Vaya usted con Dios), and saw no more of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
'So long!' in the sense of good-bye is a seaport valediction commoner in Canada than in England. From Wordnik.com. [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference
If it does, this valediction to a lost great will pack both press and buyers alike to the rafters. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The earliest form in English was valediction from 1614, so Shakespeare would have still been alive. From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
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