He dropped his legs over to the far side, and seemed to be in the act of departing from the fort.
The departing woman said good-by, and went down the steps over the terraces.
I wish you wouldn't be in such a hurry," said she, using the village formula of hospitality to a departing guest.
We remained three days at the gipsies' house, Antonio departing early every morning on his mule, and returning late at night.
How could one hear if there was any sobbing in that departing boat, or any last cry of farewell?
Four or five of them, indeed, rose and followed their departing brother from their room, with faces as full of bewilderment as his.
I keep my lance, but determine to sit down to rest, previous to departing for Ghat.
Jabour called this morning to bid me farewell, before departing to his country house.
I now lay down and stretched myself at full length upon the fresh herbage under a sheltering palm, watching with a silent melancholy the last departing rays of the sun.
As I have mentioned, I heard this same song--to me so melancholy and disheartening--as the slaves were departing from Mourzuk.
They frequently require a little water before the time of departing arrives, and come to me, looking up wistfully, putting their fingers to their parched and cracking lips.
I had heard the melancholy song of the slaves departing in the morning.
We continued all day till the last dull departing solar ray of the west had left us.
On a minishing sound of rolling drum and trembling strings, sings a brief line of wistful rhapsody of the departing spirit before the last whisking steps.
A lusty song of departing revellers breaks upon the scene.
During the day, the Angel of the Lord, who moveth invisibly over all the earth, gathering in his harvest of departing souls, had silently entered the cabin of the dying woman, and taken her from thence.
Philip assumed that the greatest risk would lie in departing the town by the route over which he had made his entrance, and in which he had left a trail of alarm.
Ballad: Upon The Cavaliers Departing Out Of London By Alex.
Finally, they demanded five millions of livres as the price of their departing again without committing disorder.
Hitherto I haue noted the monsons of the ships departing from Goa to the Northward: Now follow the monsons wherein the ships depart from Goa, to the Southward.
Departing from Tripolie, we arriued at Iaffa: from which place in a day and a halfe we went to Ierusalem, and we gaue order to our barke to tary for vs vntill our returne.
And now againe I determined to go for my Countrey, and departing from Pegu, I tarried and wintered in Cochin, and then I left the Indies and came for Ormus.
Ministers are the most unfit men in the world to talk on such subjects; it's departing from their sphere; they talk about what they don't understand.
Well, friend, I saw then that thee enemies had divided, the main body departing one way over the hill, while a smaller party had crossed the river with a horse and prisoner.
Alas," said Roland, the fire departing from his eyes, "you remind me of my weakness.
The acceptance of the bequest was inevitable, although by this acceptance Rome was departing from the beaten track of a carefully chosen policy.
Finally, without departing directly from the end for which it was instituted, it may deviate more or less from it, according to the manner of its constitution.
I say pain, and not death: for no animal can know what it is to die; the knowledge of death and its terrors being one of the first acquisitions made by man in departing from an animal state.
Saying this, we returned to the city, and from the highest part of the walls watched the departing glories of the most magnificent military array I had ever beheld.
The citizens stood around in groups, silent witnesses of the departing glories of their city and nation.
Israelite departingout of a land of infidels by the command of God, or that he looked on that barbarous people, as one day destined to be the people of God.
The visitors declined an invitation to dinner, as they had brought an ample lunch; but before departing they helped Mrs. Crane stretch a long clothesline between two trees in the clearing.
Still, the backward glances were sufficiently regretful; for Pete's Patch was not a spot to be lightly deserted, and never had the place seemed more beautiful than it appeared now from the slowly departing boat.
He looked beseechingly at the Youngest Teacher, who, being a very human pedagogue, turned her back upon the tragic young things; but a moment later she held out a friendly hand to the departing lover.
If I had, they would be here at this moment smoothing the pillow of the departing saint, and wondering how much they would get.
I don't suppose you imagined I had sent for you to bid you a last farewell before departing to my long home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "departing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
