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a farewell remark (an alternative to goodbye)

Smile the while You kiss me sad adieu....
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The horse was whipped up and the cab rattled off along the quay amid a chorus of laughter and adieus.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
Only adieu, mon plaisir, may we meet again.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
"Chemistry, my crucible," he murmurs, sitting up and bidding Caroline a brief adieu.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
Adieu; God keep thee from being an object of pity to anyone.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
With many adieus and good wishes, Mr. Fagin went his way.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
She had a new way of fingering a wine-glass, of exchanging an adieu, a new way of entering a door that told everything.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
—Good morning, everybody, said Stephen, smiling and kissing the tips of his fingers in adieu.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
She was a really generous girl, and allowed no further bitterness to mar their adieux.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Adieu till then; then fail not.
William Shakespeare -- All's Well That Ends Well
SIR P: Nay, And you be such a one, I must bid adieu To your delights.
Ben Jonson -- Volpone
Sir, I must bid you adieu.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
My love! my native land, adieu For I must cross the main, My dear, For I must cross the main.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
And there was a last "adieu" divided into two words!
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
Doubt not, my lord, I'll play the orator As if the golden fee for which I plead Were for myself: and so, my lord, adieu.
William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III
Pray make my excuses and adieus to her.
Jane Austen -- Emma
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."
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
And so adieu, good madam; never more Will I my master's tears to you deplore.
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
I am glad of your departure: adieu, good Monsieur Melancholy.
William Shakespeare -- As You Like It
He had bidden her adieu for two days, which were, so he stated, to be spent at Bath in visiting some friends.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd

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