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  • Sir, I must bid you adieu.†   (source)
  • Not adieu as we said it, but a dieu, which made more sense after all.†   (source)
  • You can perhaps think it is a little thing, Stingo, but it is to permit someone to die without a farewell, an adieu, a single word of comfort or understanding that is so terrible to bear.†   (source)
  • My guests squirmed out of their squeezed-up seats behind the table and the adieux, as they should be, were short and formal.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: Then adieu.†   (source)
  • As a result, I am afraid that I must now bid you adieu.†   (source)
  • "Adieu," I say and thumb the diskey off.†   (source)
  • So many years before, he had bid adieu to a whole household.†   (source)
  • But experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu.†   (source)
  • Now, he was to bid adieu to a room that was one hundred feet square.†   (source)
  • Then a few years later he had bid adieu to a suite.†   (source)
  • Adieu foulard, adieu madras, or Ma belle ka di maman li.†   (source)
  • Adieu — like those old-time songs she sang.†   (source)
  • I'll listen…… If she says good-bye perhaps adieu.†   (source)
  • To say adieu to this place which is so mysterious and strange and …. and so wrong.†   (source)
  • Adieu.†   (source)
  • Adieu, Merin.†   (source)
  • Adieu.†   (source)
  • It was with this troupe that he had come to Moscow in 1913 where, having fallen in love with a bookseller in the Arbat, he had bid the circus adieu.†   (source)
  • Adieu.†   (source)
  • "Dear Sir," Adams began on February 6, "It seemed to me that you and I ought not to die without saying goodbye, or bidding each other adieu.†   (source)
  • To Abigail, Jefferson had written, "I have considered you while in London as my neighbor, and look forward to the moment of your departure from thence as to an epoch of much regret and concern to me…… My daughters join me in affectionate adieus.†   (source)
  • Always adieu (and all songs say it).†   (source)
  • Adieu.†   (source)
  • Never Adieu.†   (source)
  • Adieu.†   (source)
  • Or think Adieu.†   (source)
  • Adieu!†   (source)
  • I recall that as he pronounced that forlorn edict "Sensationalism is preferable to radicalism," I murmured beneath my breath an almost exultant adieu: "Goodby, Weasel.†   (source)
  • POZZO: Adieu.†   (source)
  • POZZO: Adieu.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: Adieu.†   (source)
  • Adieu!†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: Adieu.†   (source)
  • Adieu!†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: Adieu.†   (source)
  • Adieu!†   (source)
  • POZZO: Adieu.†   (source)
  • Adieu!†   (source)
  • Smile the while You kiss me sad adieu….†   (source)
  • She could wait there until Ashley finished his adieux and then call to him when he came into the house.†   (source)
  • Both the young priests knew that their families would strongly oppose their purpose, so they resolved to reveal it to no one; to make no adieux, but to steal away disguised in civilian's clothes.†   (source)
  • In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory.†   (source)
  • She had a new way of fingering a wine-glass, of exchanging an adieu, a new way of entering a door that told everything.†   (source)
  • Even while we were lost in the silent and deep preoccupation of our love and belonged more closely than ever we had to one another, my soul bid adieu to Maria, and took leave of all that she had meant to me.†   (source)
  • Adieu.†   (source)
  • —Good morning, everybody, said Stephen, smiling and kissing the tips of his fingers in adieu.†   (source)
  • She was a really generous girl, and allowed no further bitterness to mar their adieux.†   (source)
  • From his home he had gone to the seminary to bid adieu to many schoolmates.†   (source)
  • Waving good-bye, she called out "adieu" and "many thanks" and "see you soon" several times.†   (source)
  • ROXANE (still bowing): Urimedonte—adieu!†   (source)
  • And there was a last "adieu" divided into two words!†   (source)
  • Adieu, mon ami; je vous souhaiterais un devoir plus agreable a remplir.†   (source)
  • "Adieu, adieu, dearest Edmond!" cried Mercedes, stretching out her arms to him from the balcony.†   (source)
  • "Adieu, ma bonne," answered Prince Vasili turning away from her.†   (source)
  • Once more adieu; "vale tandem, non immemor mei".†   (source)
  • My love! my native land, adieu For I must cross the main, My dear, For I must cross the main.†   (source)
  • After Mrs. Sedley had taken an hysterical adieu of her daughter, the pair went off to the carriage.†   (source)
  • Only adieu, mon plaisir, may we meet again.†   (source)
  • With many adieus and good wishes, Mr. Fagin went his way.†   (source)
  • She waved him an adieu from the window, and stood there for a moment looking out after he was gone.†   (source)
  • Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies!†   (source)
  • Mr. Wickham's adieus were much more affectionate than his wife's.†   (source)
  • Adieu, dear sister, till your next swoon!†   (source)
  • I saw her this morning, and bade her adieu.†   (source)
  • "Adieu, Mr. Barsad," said the former; "our arrangement thus made, you have nothing to fear from me."†   (source)
  • Throwing open the door, she made a sign of adieu to June, and went out of the hut.†   (source)
  • But he had not the strength to say: "Adieu, Madame."†   (source)
  • 'Adieu, my birds!' the pretty child repeated.†   (source)
  • Adieu! my cousin; take care of your self; and, I entreat you, write!†   (source)
  • The old man whistled the younger dog to the land; and then he proceeded to the final adieus.†   (source)
  • "Adieu, adieu!" murmured the old man, clasping Edmond's hand convulsively—"adieu!"†   (source)
  • Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain!†   (source)
  • Adieu, my charmer; I will wait to pay you my next visit till you are in a better humor.'†   (source)
  • 'Adieu, Miss Dorrit, with best wishes,' said Mrs Merdle.†   (source)
  • But the real adieux were made in Mme. Coquenard's chamber; they were heartrending.†   (source)
  • "Gone," murmured Valentine; "adieu, my sweet Haidee—adieu, my sister!"†   (source)
  • Adieu; I will go and try if there are any means of speaking to him.†   (source)
  • "Adieu, then, till we meet again," said Valentine, tearing herself away.†   (source)
  • "Adieu, Valentine, adieu!" said Morrel, bowing.†   (source)
  • Adieu, then, sir, and do not forget the prescription.†   (source)
  • "There, do you hear?" observed Gaetano; "he is bidding you adieu."†   (source)
  • "Adieu, then, until five o'clock; be punctual, and we shall arrive at twelve or one."†   (source)
  • "And now, once more, adieu," said Morrel.†   (source)
  • Once more farewell, my dear sister; Emmanuel, adieu!†   (source)
  • Adieu, my dear Gerard, and at your next journey alight at my door.†   (source)
  • 'Adieu, my lord,' murmured my mother, determining quietly to await the approach of death.†   (source)
  • Adieu; I go far from men who thus so bitterly injure each other.†   (source)
  • Adieu, your excellency; depend upon me as firmly as I do upon you.†   (source)
  • And now, my dear child, adieu for the present.†   (source)
  • Adieu, my noble and generous friend, adieu; I will go and tell Valentine what you have done for me.†   (source)
  • Adieu!†   (source)
  • Jude's face became so full of complicated glooms that hers was agitated in sympathy as she bade him adieu through the carriage window.†   (source)
  • Adieu.†   (source)
  • I know well how the prince and others would like me, instead of indulging in all these wicked words of my own, to sing, to the glory and triumph of morality, that well-known verse of Gilbert's: " 'O, puissent voir longtemps votre beaute sacree Tant d'amis, sourds a mes adieux!†   (source)
  • The horse was whipped up and the cab rattled off along the quay amid a chorus of laughter and adieus.†   (source)
  • Adieu.†   (source)
  • The woman made her grateful adieux and started away with her pig; and when the constable opened the door for her, he followed her out into the narrow hall.†   (source)
  • Who knows whether anything worth mentioning will even show up, or whether I won't have rid myself of my fever by then and can bid you all adieu.†   (source)
  • She stood on one side whilst he jumped on to Sultan's back, then, as he galloped out of the gates, she waved him a final "Adieu."†   (source)
  • He thought the adieux of Montague and Ada Dyas as fine as anything he had ever seen Croisette and Bressant do in Paris, or Madge Robertson and Kendal in London; in its reticence, its dumb sorrow, it moved him more than the most famous histrionic outpourings.†   (source)
  • As to Billy's adieu to the ship Rights-of-Man, which the boarding lieutenant had indeed reported to him, but in a deferential way more as a good story than aught else, Captain Vere, tho' mistakenly understanding it as a satiric sally, had but thought so much the better of the impressed man for it; as a military sailor, admiring the spirit that could take an arbitrary enlistment so merrily and sensibly.†   (source)
  • She was keeping up well to the last—but as she turned back from waving her adieux over the side, Lily said to herself that the mask must drop and the soul of fear look out.†   (source)
  • …went and bade all her favourite cows goodbye, touching each of them with her hand, and as she and Clare stood side by side at leaving, as if united body and soul, there would have been something peculiarly sorry in their aspect to one who should have seen it truly; two limbs of one life, as they outwardly were, his arm touching hers, her skirts touching him, facing one way, as against all the dairy facing the other, speaking in their adieux as "we", and yet sundered like the poles.†   (source)
  • On the Monday, when the party disbanded with uproarious adieux, the return to town threw into stronger relief the charms of the life she was leaving.†   (source)
  • Adieu.'†   (source)
  • Adieu, my Carnival Prince!†   (source)
  • CYRANO (reading): 'Roxane, adieu!†   (source)
  • Adieu.†   (source)
  • (Bowing to Roxane): Adieu!†   (source)
  • Adieu!†   (source)
  • Adieu, my good engineer.†   (source)
  • Adieu, my dear Margaret.†   (source)
  • He had bidden her adieu for two days, which were, so he stated, to be spent at Bath in visiting some friends.†   (source)
  • …wish to walk along it once more, all were so inclined, and Louisa soon grew so determined, that the difference of a quarter of an hour, it was found, would be no difference at all; so with all the kind leave-taking, and all the kind interchange of invitations and promises which may be imagined, they parted from Captain and Mrs Harville at their own door, and still accompanied by Captain Benwick, who seemed to cling to them to the last, proceeded to make the proper adieus to the Cobb.†   (source)
  • Then we bestrode our steeds and with his last adieu M. Fridrikssen treated me to a line of Virgil eminently applicable to such uncertain wanderers as we were likely to be: "Et quacumque viam dedent fortuna sequamur."†   (source)
  • We bade adieu to Mrs. Steerforth and Miss Dartle, with many thanks on my part, and much kindness on the devoted mother's.†   (source)
  • All was now ready, and warning my wife that we might find it necessary to remain all night on the vessel, we tenderly bade adieu and embarked.†   (source)
  • She had mentioned immediately on his entering that Will had just gone away, and would come again, but Mr. Casaubon had said, "I met him outside, and we made our final adieux, I believe," saying this with the air and tone by which we imply that any subject, whether private or public, does not interest us enough to wish for a further remark upon it.†   (source)
  • With these hasty adieux, Nicholas mounted nimbly to his seat, and waved his hand as gallantly as if his heart went with it.†   (source)
  • Our adieux were limited to a hasty bow, and then I pushed forward, trusting to my own resources; for the porter's lodge is untenanted as yet.†   (source)
  • The thieves made him mount the stool, Clopin came to him, passed the rope about his neck, and, tapping him on the shoulder,— "Adieu, my friend.†   (source)
  • "Adieu!" from Defarge.†   (source)
  • Adieu, I send heaps of love to Papa.†   (source)
  • Pray make my excuses and adieus to her.†   (source)
  • On the second morning thereafter, Phoebe might have been seen, in her straw bonnet, with a shawl on one arm and a little carpet-bag on the other, bidding adieu to Hepzibah and Cousin Clifford.†   (source)
  • 'Adieu, my birds!' said the keeper of the prison, taking his pretty child in his arms, and dictating the words with a kiss.†   (source)
  • The gentlemen made their adieus as well as they could, and taking the middle of the road, which was a fine, wide, and well-beaten path, they did tolerably well until they reached the gate of the mansion-house: but on entering the Judge's domains they encountered some slight difficulties.†   (source)
  • Adieu to disappointment and spleen.†   (source)
  • Adieu.†   (source)
  • The trapper loitered about the place, declining to share the straw of the emigrant, until the whole arrangement was completed; and then, without the ceremony of an adieu, he slowly retired from the spot.†   (source)
  • How plainly he's a fugitive! no baggage, not a hat-box, valise, or carpet-bag,—no friends accompany him to the wharf with their adieux.†   (source)
  • MARTHA Adieu!†   (source)
  • A few last words and tears, a few simple adieus and blessings, and clasping her wondering and affrighted child in her arms, she glided noiselessly away.†   (source)
  • He bade adieu to Phileas Fogg, wishing him all success, and expressing the hope that he would come that way again in a less original but more profitable fashion.†   (source)
  • With undoubting decision she directly began her adieus; and Edmund began at the same time to recollect that his mother had been inquiring for her, and that he had walked down to the Parsonage on purpose to bring her back.†   (source)
  • Adieu, mademoiselle!†   (source)
  • "Adieu, 'graceful consort,' " said Stephen, buttoning his coat across when he had done singing, and smiling down from his tall height, with the air of rather a patronizing lover, at the little lady on the music-stool.†   (source)
  • Mabel then smiled an adieu; and, bounding up the bank, she was soon lost to view behind the mound of the fort.†   (source)
  • In that case, adieu.†   (source)
  • As he caught their glances, he drew his hard hand hastily across his eyes again, waved it on high for an adieu, and, uttering a forced cry to his dogs, who were crouching at his feet, he entered the forest.†   (source)
  • Adieu! my dear sweet Fanny, this is a long letter from London: write me a pretty one in reply to gladden Henry's eyes, when he comes back, and send me an account of all the dashing young captains whom you disdain for his sake."†   (source)
  • Judith read his answer in his countenance, and with a heart nearly broken by the consciousness of undue erring, she signed to him an adieu, and buried herself in the woods.†   (source)
  • He swung it gravely, then handed it to Charles, who sank to his knees in the earth and threw in handfuls of it, crying, "Adieu!"†   (source)
  • …reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows, was enough to make the sound of Lady Russell's carriage exceedingly welcome; and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.†   (source)
  • There was one circumstance in the leave-taking which occasioned a vast deal of smiling and pleasantry, and that was, that Mr Frank Cheeryble offered his hand to Kate twice over, quite forgetting that he had bade her adieu already.†   (source)
  • May you, in your just resentment, be able to forget the unworthy woman on whom you have wasted a most generous devotion—who avoids you only with a deeper shame than that with which she hurries from herself—and who writes this last adieu.†   (source)
  • Adieu, I embrace you tenderly.†   (source)
  • Alice, adieu"—his voice changed from admiration to tenderness—"adieu, Alice; we shall soon meet again; as conquerors, I trust, and amid rejoicings!"†   (source)
  • Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care!†   (source)
  • 'At this, Ernest coloured up, and looked inclined to cry, while Jack put on a comical face, pulled off his cap, and with a low bow, called after the fugitive, "Adieu for the present, sir!†   (source)
  • CHAPTER VI To buy his favour I extend this friendship: If he will take it, so; if not, adieu; And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.†   (source)
  • With Mr. Heathcliff, grim and saturnine, on the one hand, and Hareton, absolutely dumb, on the other, I made a somewhat cheerless meal, and bade adieu early.†   (source)
  • It was still on her mind when I bade her adieu; and she said to me, in her pretty coaxing way — as if I were a doll, I used to think: 'Now don't get up at five o'clock, you naughty boy.†   (source)
  • —Adieu, my Prince, till better times.†   (source)
  • She wrote to inform her brother of the probable conclusion of a four-months' indisposition under which she had suffered, and entreated him to come to her, if possible; for she had much to settle, and she wished to bid him adieu, and deliver Linton safely into his hands.†   (source)
  • He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette."†   (source)
  • The adieu is charity itself.†   (source)
  • …the improved state of his fortunes, Mr Crummles gave him to understand that next morning he and his were to start for Liverpool, where the vessel lay which was to carry them from the shores of England, and that if Nicholas wished to take a last adieu of Mrs Crummles, he must repair with him that night to a farewell supper, given in honour of the family at a neighbouring tavern; at which Mr Snittle Timberry would preside, while the honours of the vice-chair would be sustained by the…†   (source)
  • "Advise" was his word, but it was the advice of absolute power, and she had only to rise, and, with Mr. Crawford's very cordial adieus, pass quietly away; stopping at the entrance-door, like the Lady of Branxholm Hall, "one moment and no more," to view the happy scene, and take a last look at the five or six determined couple who were still hard at work; and then, creeping slowly up the principal staircase, pursued by the ceaseless country-dance, feverish with hopes and fears, soup and…†   (source)
  • Gentlemen, adieu!†   (source)
  • Suddenly she seized his head between her hands, kissed him hurriedly on the forehead, crying, "Adieu!" and rushed down the stairs.†   (source)
  • As the Hammersmith Semiramis spoke, she waved one hand, both by way of adieu, and to give Miss Sharp an opportunity of shaking one of the fingers of the hand which was left out for that purpose.†   (source)
  • The moment he read it, he packed his knapsack, bade adieu to his fellow pedestrians, and was off to keep his promise, with a heart full of joy and sorrow, hope and suspense.†   (source)
  • Adieu, you old man, grey.†   (source)
  • "Adieu, Mary," said he gently to his sister, taking her by the hand and kissing her, and then he left the room with rapid steps.†   (source)
  • 'In bidding adieu to the modern Babylon, where we have undergone many vicissitudes, I trust not ignobly, Mrs. Micawber and myself cannot disguise from our minds that we part, it may be for years and it may be for ever, with an individual linked by strong associations to the altar of our domestic life.†   (source)
  • To land, shoulder his pack and rifle, and to get ready for his march occupied Hurry but an instant, and with a growling adieu, he had already commenced his march, when a sudden twinge of feeling brought him to a dead stop, and immediately after to the other's side.†   (source)
  • The old man raised his tottering frame to its knees, and first casting a glance upward at the countenance of his countryman, as if to bid him adieu, he stretched out his neck to the blow he himself invited.†   (source)
  • 'Next morning, having packed her belongings in the cajack, we both went on board; and bidding adieu to her well-known bay she took her seat before me, and I made for home.†   (source)
  • My Dear Mentor, Please make my adieux to your aunt, and exult within yourself, for 'Lazy Laurence' has gone to his grandpa, like the best of boys.†   (source)
  • I held no communication with him: still, I was conscious of his design to enter, if he could; and on the Tuesday, a little after dark, when my master, from sheer fatigue, had been compelled to retire a couple of hours, I went and opened one of the windows; moved by his perseverance to give him a chance of bestowing on the faded image of his idol one final adieu.†   (source)
  • His present pursuit could not make him forget that Elizabeth had been the first to excite and to deserve his attention, the first to listen and to pity, the first to be admired; and in his manner of bidding her adieu, wishing her every enjoyment, reminding her of what she was to expect in Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and trusting their opinion of her—their opinion of everybody—would always coincide, there was a solicitude, an interest which she felt must ever attach her to him with a most…†   (source)
  • "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean.†   (source)
  • For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a delirious throb.†   (source)
  • Finally, after a very long sitting, Mr Snittle Timberry vacated the chair, and the company with many adieux and embraces dispersed.†   (source)
  • The theatre rang with cheers; they recommenced the entire movement; the lovers spoke of the flowers on their tomb, of vows, exile, fate, hopes; and when they uttered the final adieu, Emma gave a sharp cry that mingled with the vibrations of the last chords.†   (source)
  • Upon this the bosom bent to him; and its owner, with a wonderful command of feature, addressed a winning smile of adieu to the two sisters, as young ladies of fortune in whose favour she was much prepossessed, and whom she had never had the gratification of seeing before.†   (source)
  • Instead of making his adieus frankly, and in a generous spirit, the little he thought it necessary to say was uttered sullenly and in coldness.†   (source)
  • Rowena waved a graceful adieu to him of the Fetterlock—the Saxon bade God speed him, and on they moved through a wide glade of the forest.†   (source)
  • "I suppose I must," said Miss Sharp calmly, and much to the wonder of Miss Jemima; and the latter having knocked at the door, and receiving permission to come in, Miss Sharp advanced in a very unconcerned manner, and said in French, and with a perfect accent, "Mademoiselle, je viens vous faire mes adieux."†   (source)
  • Adieu!†   (source)
  • Adieu, Sulphur Bottom!†   (source)
  • They entered the woods, and bidding adieu to the river for a while, ascended some of the higher grounds; when, in spots where the opening of the trees gave the eye power to wander, were many charming views of the valley, the opposite hills, with the long range of woods overspreading many, and occasionally part of the stream.†   (source)
  • …to the very last hair-pin a full hour and a half before it was at all necessary to begin to think about it—in good time, or in bad time, the toilet was completed; and it being at length the hour agreed upon for starting, the milkman fetched a coach from the nearest stand, and Kate, with many adieux to her mother, and many kind messages to Miss La Creevy, who was to come to tea, seated herself in it, and went away in state, if ever anybody went away in state in a hackney coach yet.†   (source)
  • Adieu—and having taken the medicine which I shall send thee by the hand of Reuben, compose thyself again to rest, that thou mayest be the more able to endure the journey on the succeeding day.†   (source)
  • Adieu, my Flintwinch.†   (source)
  • If the Musketeers did not appear, things were to go on as had been agreed; Mme. Bonacieux was to get into the carriage as if to bid her adieu, and she was to take away Mme. Bonacieux.†   (source)
  • … Adieu, Prince!†   (source)
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