As we made our farewells, Cobra remained defiant.
When the workshop was over, and we had made our farewells and stepped out into the blazing Brazzaville afternoon, the State Department local staffer who was helping facilitate the event handed me a bottle of water.
Thinking Far I had been simply taken by a violent stomach bug or such, we made our farewells and arranged to meet a few days later at the office of Carib Gems – the label I co-owned with Chips Richards.
You can use the time to make your farewells, plan your funeral, cut people out of your will, finish that fat nineteenth-century novel that you've been lugging around since the twentieth century, and generally tidy up.
Though you almost never will technically need to specify a reason for leaving, having one ready will make your farewell conversation with your boss (and, later, with your fellow employees) much easier.
But it is also what can make their farewells hard to watch unless they go out in a manner like Rivera or Pettitte.
The site saves customers and their families from having to make premature farewells, said Karen Peach, a company founder.
They say their goodbyes just as the guests come crowding into the salon to make their own farewells.
Of course, it's almost impossible not to shed a tear or two when Ranyevskaya and her brother, Gaev James Laurensonn) make their final farewells to their adored family estate, which they have lost through carelessness and self-involved inattention.
Julia Gillard enters the chamber for the first time as a backbencher to listen to Rob Oakeshott make his farewell.
