The men of Charles Town fought well; they drove the pirates from their guns, they swarmed aboard the pirate ship, and killed the pirates who resisted them.
If we only had a gun of our own aboard we could hop about and pepper first one, then t'other.
Stowaways is chaps that hides aboard vessels going out of port, to get their passage free gratis for nothing.
We shall engage to get aboard her by night, and if you will drop us on any part of the Indian coast you will have done your part of the bargain.
The two Smiths, father and son, sat sullenly in their launch, but came aboardmeekly enough when commanded.
I was quite sure he couldn't have had anything to drink, for neither of the brothers were the kind to hide rum from their shipmates, if they had any, and the only spirits that were aboard were locked up in the captain's cabin.
The objective is to find a kind of man that will keep the Frank Wests of the future from dying, as those men aboard the Wheel did.
Joe McCauley, radio operator aboard the Wheel, had been talking with Ed Harris on the Griseda.
The crash of an airship with a hundred people aboard is accepted for what it is, without this kind of reaction.
It looks that way, though you may change your minds before you've been aboard long.
After the hatches were down a huge crate was hoisted aboard with a crane.
The waves came aboardonly occasionally, though the sea was running the same as before and the ship was rolling almost down to her rails.
The men who had gone over the side now steppedaboard and hauled in the hawsers after them.
I didn't have any at all when I first went aboard an ore carrier.
The lad felt sure that they never would get aboard without at least serious injury.
So I worked a passage to Funchal, and there I got aboard of a Southampton steamer, bound for Cuba, that put in for coal.
When the pirates clambered aboard the Silver Star they seemed to be boarding a deserted vessel.
This time he went aboard sober and fit for any duty, and came home as second mate of the ship.
For five years I had seen him go from the house on different voyages, and he had always gone so intoxicated as to be barely able to sit in the wagon and unable to get aboard without help.
But the Rough Riders remained aboard of the transport, taking four companies of another command in with them.
At last the Rough Riders were told to go aboard the Yucatan, and started to do so.
Theodore Roosevelt overheard this talk, and at once made up his mind that it would be a question of what command got aboard of the transport first.
A few minutes later that Catwhisker was backing out of the narrow harbor with Cub and his father aboard and Bud and Hal on shore watching their departure.
Of course, everybody aboard the Catwhisker was astonished, but Mr. Perry signaled Cub to reverse the engine.
One by one they wentaboard the Porpoise crawling down through the man hole.
Then, slowly but surely, those aboardthe Porpoise felt her beginning to rise.
THE WIND WAGON Little Hero stepped aboard the Wind Wagon and started on a journey to many wonderful places and had a delightful time.
She gets aboard just in time and away it floats out into the big wide world.
During this time we had drawn sufficiently near to the wreck to enable the sharper-sighted among the hands to remark the signal; and they were calling out that there was somebody flying a handkerchief aboard the hull.
No doubt he was cornered by a school of sword fish, and this fastest fish that swims the ocean had to make a leap for life by jumping aboard our ship.
When I got backaboard the ship it was noon, and raining as it knows how to rain in this country.
We were logging eleven knots, and if she kept this up we would be off Suva Harbor about two-thirty in the morning; then it would be necessary to lie off Suva till the pilot came aboard some time during the forenoon.
I jumped aboard and ordered the foresail and main jib set.
If he did not respond to it, the officer would report to the captain that one of the crew who had just come aboard was dead.
As she passed us to windward Old Charlie remarked, "There will be few aboard of her to eat breakfast this morning, the way she pitches and rolls.
With instructions to the wheel-man to keep her on her course, I went forward to see Old Charlie, and hear from him what happened next aboard the bark "Mud Puddler.
He also caused the Captain and first mate to exchange their comfortable quarters aboard ship for uneasy cells in jail; six months for the mate and a year for the Captain.
Now let me impress you with this thought--while you are aboard this ship with me, I'll not tolerate any more of your ill-advised teachings to the crew.
After supper the missionary boat came alongside, and two elderly women came aboard and asked if there were any Christians among the crew.
When we finally arrived the owner was there on the dock and fired every man aboard her.
Skylift isn't till dawn, but you can go aboard as soon as the process crew finishes with her.
A free passaboard a starship is rare except for professional spacemen, which I obviously wasn't.
Then, climbing aboard while Fleet steadied the craft, the boys set out in pursuit of their chums.
Generally the worst part of it was in getting them into the trains: the children are so small, and the rush of passengers so great, that they were in danger of being trampled on, or prevented from getting aboard in season.
Mbopo turned and spoke joyfully to his men, who instantly lost their uneasy appearance and sprang aboard with a shout of delight.
All that remained was to load them aboard the rafts.
There were various minor details of their outfits to be attended to on Monday and on Tuesday noon they went aboard the Benguela, when she arrived from Liverpool.
It was worrying Burt too, but he jumped aboard his raft and cast loose without giving vent to his fears.
The Benguela took a black pilot aboard and proceeded straight up to the port of Banana.
The mate they noticed stayed aboard in charge of the ship.
But in his rough way he was not unfriendly towards the boys, for he remembered that they had given him friendly advice, when he was aboard that strange craft, a horse, the night before.
He was rolling along with that gait peculiar to a sailor when aboard land, when he gave a sudden spring and clutched Cales convulsively in the back, giving that individual a big scare.
He came to the conclusion that it was the man who had come aboard the night before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aboard; afloat; aloft; board; here; hither; topside
