Sentence examples for parting day from inspiring English sources

From Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,   The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,   And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Consonance is also occasionally used as an off-rhyme, but it is most commonly found as an internal sound effect, as in Shakespeare's song, "The ousel cock so black of hue," or "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day," from Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard".

From the mid-18th to the mid-19th century the form was usually used for elegiac verse, of which the best-known example is Gray's poem, which begins: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

The narrator emphasises both aural and visual sensations as he examines the area in relation to himself: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Danilo Gallinari's parting gesture Sunday was pure competitive zeal — a timely 3-pointer, a triumphant fist pump, a shout.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla .— The Yankees will not return to Tropicana Field for six weeks, so the Tampa Bay Rays gave them a parting gift Sunday to tide them over.

His policy on the matter — as they tended her pregnancy all summer and into the fall, walking to school together on weekday mornings before silently parting for the day, then meeting again for the walk home — was that gratitude needed only to be released from one's person, spoken out loud.

The Baltimore Orioles released 49-year-old Jamie Moyer on Saturday, parting ways with him at his request.

In what seemed a parting shot on Thursday, the government-run daily New Light of Myanmar suggested that the N.L.D. was a terrorist group.

While consumers in most European countries are keeping a firm grip on their euros, satisfied to observe the laws on the Continent that keep most stores closed on Sunday, Britons are parting with their pounds every day of the week.

Even Tino Martinez, whom Joe Torre felt the need to sedate on Sunday with the parting words, "I'll see you Tuesday".