Both the ladies wept; and to us all it was a sad and solemn leave-taking.
And now—there can be no leave-taking between him and the people that he served and saved.
This is a day of leave-taking and of generous acknowledgement of great services.
There is a necessary process in bereavement, which brings a sort of cathartic experience, and part of it is the final leave-taking.
Its text is drawn from two different poems, both involving the theme of leave-taking.
Cossack leave-taking was always festive.