partings

Indeed, they have already developed an alarming desire to go to "partings" as they call them, the

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"partings," are like the steps of a huge stairway, with the soil filling them up to a regular grade.

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For Jerry had learned partings, and beyond all peradventure this was a parting, though little he dreamed that he would again meet Michael across the years and across the world, in a fabled valley of far California, where they would live out their days in the hearts and arms of the beloved gods.

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The second bill offers a trio of modern classics: Balanchine's Theme And Variations, Antony Tudor's haunting Jardin Aux Lilas and Paul Taylor's exuberant crowd-pleaser Company B, an evocation of wartime meetings and partings.

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We’ve loved each other so long sweetheart and yet we have had more than our share of partings.

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It pushes crooked furrows like partings through his hair.

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He made reference, as Christians always do, to the belief that such partings are temporary and that we would see my mother again in Heaven.

Karl Giberson, Ph.D: My Dead Relatives in the Sky Ph.D Karl Giberson 2010

Neither of them wondered why the other didn't try to contact them; instead, they were glad they did not have to go through any troublesome partings.

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“My father set off on a long trip northward, heady with excitement and hope,” wrote her sister of one of these periodic partings that left everyone feeling as if a weight had lifted.

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He made reference, as Christians always do, to the belief that such partings are temporary and that we would see my mother again in Heaven.

Karl Giberson, Ph.D: My Dead Relatives in the Sky 2010