Up to the moment of departure, the route was not set.

Most people died at home, nature deciding the moment of departure.

The moment of departure arrives, and we must actually travel.

So now: the moment of departure is at hand!

She left home on the Sunday evening and, when it came to the actual moment of departure, with reluctance.

So this was it - the moment of departure.

But early times in London were severe for his family (at the moment of departure he has some children and pregnant wife).

It wanted scarce forty seconds to the moment of departure, but each second seemed to last an age!

After this, the buyer boarded the airplane at the moment of departure.

It's the moments of departure and coming back that are so stressful."

He was trying to lighten the moment of departure.

But he had restrained his irreverence till the moment of departure.

There was a breathless day of final packing, and at last the moment of departure arrived.

These two new discount fares can now be bought up to the moment of departure, if any seats in that fare class are still available.

Lachaussee was with his master, and received his instructions at the moment of departure.

"The Herr Professor was laughing and excited at the moment of departure.

Every step of it is dictated by fashion, from the method of approach to the moment of departure.

The moment of departure had come.

The boy and the man regarded each other for a long moment, each one aware the moment of departure could not be delayed any further.

The schoolboys were shooed away to their morning lesson, but Brother Paul would probably loose them again at the moment of departure.

"As the hours raced by and the moment of departure came close, I went to the cemetery," Mrs. Haran said.

As the old gentleman sat waiting the moment of departure, he was the witness of an incident strangely connected with the fortunes of his house.

About the only letter of this time is an amusing note to Rudyard Kipling, written at the moment of departure.

Finally, though, she had to admit to herself that she wasn't being considerate of the librarians, she was putting off the moment of departure.

Consider the embedded Markov chain of the M/G/1 queue, where the time points selected are immediately after the moment of departure.