A "
Departure" is not what a vain people of landsmen may think.
Of course the Epanchin family was much interested in his movements, though he had not had time to bid them farewell before his
departure. The general, however, had had an opportunity of seeing him once or twice since the eventful evening, and had spoken very seriously with him; but though he had seen the prince, as I say, he told his family nothing about the circumstance.
I found no severe trial in my
departure. My home was charm- less; it was not home to me; on parting from it, I could not feel that I was leaving any thing which I could have enjoyed by staying.
Vanstone's
departure, no share in occasioning his wife's
departure as well?
This species of aerial car was lined with strong springs and partitions to deaden the shock of
departure. It was provided with food for a year, water for some months, and gas for some days.
This letter completed, Miss Pinkerton proceeded to write her own name, and Miss Sedley's, in the fly-leaf of a Johnson's Dictionary-- the interesting work which she invariably presented to her scholars, on their
departure from the Mall.
Koner, triumphantly demonstrated the feasibility of the journey, its chances of success, the nature of the obstacles existing, the immense advantages of the aerial mode of locomotion, and found fault with nothing but the selected point of
departure, which it contended should be Massowah, a small port in Abyssinia, whence James Bruce, in 1768, started upon his explorations in search of the sources of the Nile.
We shall wait here to receive letters from Arthur and his wife, and we shall time our
departure for Italy accordingly.'
These scuttles then were protected against the shock of
departure by plates let into solid grooves, which could easily be opened outward by unscrewing them from the inside.
But in the Klondike, such was its hilarious sorrow at the
departure of its captain, that for twenty-four hours no wheels revolved.
On hearing of Emily's sudden
departure, she had been (as the maid reported) "much shocked and quite at a loss to understand what it meant."
you do not give us a day -- no, not even an hour before your
departure?"