take-leave

I have had all my own little concerns to arrange, books and music to divide, and all my trunks to repack, from not having understood in time what was intended as to the waggons: and one thing I have had to do, Mary, of a more trying nature: going to almost every house in the parish, as a sort of take-leave.

Persuasion 1892

I have had all my own little concerns to arrange, books and music to divide, and all my trunks to repack, from not having understood in time what was intended as to the waggons: and one thing I have had to do, Mary, of a more trying nature: going to almost every house in the parish, as a sort of take-leave.

Persuasion Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1892

While the maid was at Miss Hurley's on an errand, she saw Mr. Hawthorne enter, probably for a take-leave call.

Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

She rode up to the highest part of the down for a take-leave gaze.

Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Breakfasted to-day in the Rue d'Anjou, a take-leave repast given to the

The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819

It is not my intention to set my foot out of the ship, except to make my take-leave bow to Admiral Milbank.

The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton Nelson, Horatio 1814

It is not my intention to set my foot out of the ship, except to make my take-leave bow to Admiral Milbank.

The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol. I. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters Horatio Nelson 1781