Here and there the figure of an Arab was visible sauntering slowly among the trees, with the smoke of his cigarette Dispersing above him.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
And so it was during the next week, through the funeral, and the gathering of relatives and the gradual Dispersing of them again, and the final inevitable seclusion when the world and the relations and the dead had all joined in leaving the family alone.
"The Wooden Horse"
Hugh Walpole
But the prudent landlord had slipped away, Sir George also had retired, and the servants and others, concluding the sport was at an end, were fast Dispersing.
"The Castle Inn"
Stanley John Weyman