going

• He moved away, and the silence of his going was almost supernatural, eerie Some moments later, the giant of blackness stopped at the spot where the one-armed man--rather the man who had pretended to have only one arm--had been left, securely bound. —  030 - Spook Hole
• And the silence of his going was as though no living thing had stirred Chapter 9 AIR MONSTER POSSIBLY AN hour before dawn, strange things began happening in the night sky near where Doc Savage had lost the trail of Yuttal and Hadi-Mot and their prisoner--Lady Nelia Sealing The clouds, which had obscured moon and stars for most of the night, were gradually dissolving. —  007 - The Lost Oasis
• The immediate cause of his going was a duel--a duel elaborately arranged between Mark Twain and the editor of a rival paper, but never fought. —  The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
• He tells me that his going is at present a great loss to the House, and that he fears he hath a stipend from the other House privately. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jul/Aug 1663
• At places, the going was almost sheer, a matter of crevices for fingers and toes. —  101 - The Green Eagle

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