Departs

Examples

• So soon as a government departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than the gang in possession, and its days are numbered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The whole organisation seems to have become plastic, and departs in a slight degree from that of the parental type. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• And what creature departs more widely, not only from right reason, but from his own character and disposition? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mercury, swift-responsive, appears, receives instructions whom to produce, skims away, produces the aforesaid, and departs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mercury departs in search of the iron gentleman, finds, and produces him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If any distant sound be audible in this case, it departs through the gloom like a feeble light in that, and all is heavier than before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It does so very busily and trimly, looks in again a little while, and so departs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Muttering, after an ineffectual call to his lodger, that he will go downstairs and bring a lighted candle from the shop, the old man departs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Driver darts up, Brewer leaps in, they cheer him as he departs, and Mr Podsnap says, 'Mark my words, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He seizes a stick, which he observes there, kills Oldacre, and departs after burning the body. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yes, he said, and he will have done a great work before he departs. Plato. The Republic.

Typist: Oliver