They did not notice when the merchant departed, his pockets bulging with gold, his beard split by a contemptuous grin.

He waited until the merchant had departed, then approached the counter.

So the merchants departed recounting his praises and his abundant gifts in all quarters by land and by sea.

But most of the city was made up of the tents of merchants, and when trading season was over, the merchants departed, leaving behind nothing at all.

"You let the merchants depart, and we'll leave the city to you!"

The merchant departed, laughing.

Chinese traveler Hsuan Tsang mentions the town of Puri where "merchants depart for distant countries."

He paid his host with four hundred sheep for what he had done to his son, and then the merchant hastily departed from the land of the Turks.

Which was where, in John Lachley's private opinion, this pathetic cotton merchant had long since departed.

The three-day annual fair of Saint Peter was more than a week past, the stalls taken down, the merchants departed.