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Example sentences for "arrival"

Lexicographically close words:
arriuall; arriue; arriued; arriueth; arriuing; arrivall; arrivals; arrive; arrived; arrivee
  1. In 1778, after the arrival in America of Sir Henry Clinton, an exchange was effected and Governor Franklin was released, and went to England.

  2. On the arrival of the troops everything was done by the people to provoke and irritate them.

  3. On his arrival in New Jersey, he entered into negotiations with the Indians.

  4. Soon after Governor Hutchinson's arrival in England, he resumed his habits of friendly intercourse with Sir Francis Bernard and his family.

  5. Without any accession to his fortune yet, with letters to the agents of the East India Company, he soon embarked for India, and, on his arrival there, was well received.

  6. Shortly before their arrival the people gathered together in an immense meeting, and voted that a standing army could not be kept in the province without its consent.

  7. Governor Winthrop, after his arrival at Salem, determined to remove to a point of land between two rivers flowing into Boston Harbor, and named the town Charlestown, in honor of Charles I.

  8. The first great riot was in anticipation of the arrival of the stamps.

  9. His care to prevent any surprise had made him remain himself to guard the entrance until the arrival of Marie.

  10. The American whalers scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean to the number of nearly 700, will come to California for fresh provisions if they have the security that they will run no risk of losing their crews on their arrival there.

  11. The matter came to a head shortly after their arrival at Red Oaks when Colonel Dale, Harry, Hugh, and Dave were on the front porch.

  12. But there is time, of course, to get across to Paris, and meet the express from Constantinople on its arrival there.

  13. On our arrival the door of the flat was opened by a constable without a helmet.

  14. On his arrival he was greeted with tumultuous applause.

  15. On the morning after his arrival he found a crowd assembled on the street where a public sale was about to open.

  16. In the north the anti-slavery sentiment was strong, even to fanaticism, and many of his own supporters prayed fervently for the arrival of the day when slavery would be blotted from existence.

  17. A few days after his arrival the opportunity came to distinguish himself in the field of his future achievements.

  18. A feverish, influenza cold confined both Allie and mammy to the house for a day or two soon after the arrival of the Yorkes in the city, and Daisy was consequently obliged to be confided to the care of others when she took her walks.

  19. What unlimited possibilities the arrival of this infirmary opens up to them.

  20. On the night of my arrival here, [2] came also from Rome the commission and the Brief for the erection of the monastery.

  21. The only excitement left was to watch for the arrival of Rock's papa and mamma, who were to come that evening.

  22. Unaware of the glittering black eyes only a hundred yards away, they talked on till a scrape of hoofs, hubbub of voices on the other side of the ridge announced the arrival of the horses.

  23. Surely without them the girl would not only have broken down, but her father could never have survived to see the doctor, whose arrival was announced by a rapid beat of hoofs the following evening.

  24. A thin wisp of smoke above the jacal followed by an explosive flash as the dry thatch took fire announced their arrival at the bottom.

  25. Whether he came in from Los Arboles or the railroad, distance always timed Bull's arrival at the rancho with the lowering of the sun.

  26. He regarded them with suspicion, tempered by wholesome awe, and he now made known the arrival of the detective in such a manner as caused his master to laugh at him.

  27. Well, when Inspector Sharpe met me at the door on my arrival he told me that his Excellency Mehemet Ali, with three strange gentlemen and the junior members of the commission, awaited me in the dining-room.

  28. If you come with me we will go direct to Albert Gate, but if you decide to prosecute further inquiries here, I will await your arrival at my flat.

  29. I imagine that our fellow-passenger in the train caught the name of Hussein-ul-Mulk in our conversation, and this decided him to shadow your movements, by means of the confederate who awaited his arrival at the station.

  30. To you it should be terrible, for the arrival of these diamonds at this moment means that you must die.

  31. As Captain Hendry marched away with his prisoners, he thanked Ted for the great service which he had done the government by holding the Indians and renegades until the arrival of the troops.

  32. If we can keep them there until the arrival of the troops we can end the uprising without shedding a drop of blood.

  33. Ted had joined the crowd, waiting for the arrival of Bud and Stella.

  34. Then we marched on in silence and utter darkness, but over a good road, till half-past one in this morning, when a loud barking of dogs announced our arrival at Sultanabad.

  35. Here all the principal people of the tribe assembled as soon as the news of our arrival spread, and a feast was prepared of tummin and fresh butter, and naga’s milk.

  36. I HAVE hinted at a mystification in which we found ourselves involved a few days after our arrival at Haïl, and which at the time caused us no little anxiety.

  37. Ghafil now went forward to announce our arrival to Sirdal Khan, the chieftain at whose tents we now are.

  38. This year’s pilgrims they tell us have not yet returned, and we are the first to announce their arrival at Meshhed Ali.

  39. We, on our part, regarded her arrival with no common interest.

  40. His arrival in India nearly coincided with the charter of 1813, which threw open the India trade, and virtually ushered in a new social era.

  41. The command was, however, precarious, since it might be disturbed by the arrival or construction of new warships.

  42. The new commander determined to await the arrival of Moore, whose approach was reported, but who did not disembark his whole force until the 30th.

  43. In the meantime, Wellington had stepped into the gap, and actually held all the secretaryships of state in his own hands, pending the arrival of Peel.

  44. At this juncture, he must have been cheered by the arrival of so able a lieutenant as Graham from Cadiz, and by the brilliant success of Hill against a detached body of Marmont's army south of the Tagus.

  45. On the first arrival of the allies in Champagne the tsar had only induced Metternich to advance by threatening to prosecute the war alone.

  46. The second part began with the arrival of Napoleon on the scene of action towards the end of April and lasted to the conclusion of an armistice on June 4.

  47. He thence pressed forward to Lisbon, hoping to anticipate the embarkation of the royal family for Brazil, which, however, took place just before his arrival and almost under his eyes.

  48. His successor, General Hutchinson, completed his work by taking Cairo, before the arrival of General Baird, who had led a mixed body of British soldiers and sepoys from the Red Sea across the desert to the Nile.

  49. But the excitement of the people could not be restrained, and the arrival of the Duke of Angoulême evoked a burst of royalist enthusiasm which anticipated by a few weeks only the abdication of Napoleon at Fontainebleau.

  50. On the arrival of the reply from Verona, Wellington was informed that even if the other powers sent their despatches to Madrid, France would withhold hers.

  51. This important change had been gradually introduced before the arrival of Bentinck, but it was he who most boldly adopted the idea of governing India in the interest and by the agency of the natives.

  52. Mr. Rothman was scanning the Arrival of Buyers column in the morning paper.

  53. Again Sternsilver nodded and returned to the factory where, at hourly intervals during the following week, Seiden accosted him and issued bulletins of the arrival of wedding presents and the acceptance of invitations to the ceremony.

  54. Many reasons contributed to this move, chief of which was the arrival of a son in Fatkin's household.

  55. Ten minutes later he sat at his favourite table in Hammersmith's cafe; and, pending the arrival of an order which included Kreploch soup and some eingedaempftes Kalbflieisch, he gazed about him at the lunch-hour crowd.

  56. Indeed, resolutions were passed and spread upon the minutes of such a laudatory character that, until the arrival of Jonas Eschenbach the following morning, there persisted in both Birsky and Zapp a genuine glow of virtue.

  57. The cause was soon ascertained to be the arrival of Lieut.

  58. Thus a decisive battle was gained, which, but for the timely arrival of General Sheridan, would have resulted in disaster.

  59. They capered around our men in a most ludicrous manner, and at every fresh arrival yelled out, "Dar comes de clebber yankees.

  60. She succeeded in improving matters so much that female warders were provided on board ship, and proper accommodation and care on their arrival at their destination.

  61. Four days after their arrival she informed Lord Melbourne that she had made up her mind as to the question of marriage.

  62. Within a few months of her arrival it is estimated that she had no fewer than ten thousand sick men in her charge, and the rows of beds in one hospital alone measured two and one-third miles in length.

  63. Next day, Saturday, the attempt was successful, barely; for within half an hour after arrival an adverse gale sprang up outside.

  64. Adverse winds delayed their arrival by sail, and even the days of the stagecoach were then in the future; but happily they were in time to give the right hand of fellowship to their brethren of the Bay.

  65. On his arrival at Lahore in the end of February, 1847, he was cordially received by Henry Lawrence, whose guest at the Residency he became until he should find accommodation for himself.

  66. In the last week of April he reached Moradabad, where he halted in a position whence he should be able to time his arrival at Bareilly simultaneously with that of Walpole's column from Lucknow.

  67. On arrival at Dinapore in the end of January, 1846, he found his appointment in general orders as brigadier of the second class to command at Lahore.

  68. On his arrival in Paris the Emperor Napoleon summoned him to an audience; the Duke of Cambridge hastened to announce to him that her Majesty had graciously conferred on him the colonelcy of the Coldstream Guards.

  69. Strictly enjoined to refrain from any serious operation pending the arrival of the Commander-in-Chief, Grant halted at Buntera, six miles short of the Alum Bagh, with the garrison of which position he established communications.

  70. The arrival of this Delhi column was of priceless value to Sir Colin, on whom his all but utter want of cavalry and his deficiency in field-artillery had hitherto weighed sorely.

  71. The Highland Brigade was completed in the second week of June by the arrival of the Forty-Second.

  72. The arrival of the regiment at Newcastle was welcomed by the magistrates, colliery owners, and county gentlemen of Northumberland, who in their apprehension of a Chartist rising leaned upon its commanding officer for the maintenance of order.

  73. Sir Colin waited until the arrival of Brigadier Coke's column, which, while it was on the march to Pileebheet he had recalled to Shahjehanpore.

  74. Jones, for his part, destitute as he was of cavalry, could do no more than maintain the defensive and abide in his position the arrival of reinforcements.

  75. After this defection Whish held it impossible to continue the siege, and he retired to a position in the vicinity pending the arrival of reinforcements from Bombay.

  76. Since my arrival at the Greyhound, Bath, I have been confined to my bed-room, almost to my bed.

  77. Meantime, we find Coleridge again in correspondence with Cottle, who had heard of his arrival in Stowey.

  78. I have been interrupted by the arrival of my sons, Hartley and Derwent, the latter of whom I had not seen for so dreary a time.

  79. At the close of the year Coleridge had determined to go to London once more; and an unfortunate occurrence took place on his arrival in London.

  80. Especially is the arrival of the presidential party, at the opening of the season, attended with pomp, show and patriotic demonstrations of enthusiasm and delight.

  81. Johnny's agony was abbreviated by the arrival of Keogh, who hurried up with the news that Mrs. Goodwin would be much pleased to place rooms at the disposal of Mr. Hemstetter and his daughter.

  82. The first two or three days after their arrival were spent in preliminaries.

  83. They talk, in the meantime, indifferent conversation, of the arrival of ships from India, or of the news of the day, as if they were employed in no serious business whatever.

  84. The time at which, on such occasions, they present these for sale, is the day after their arrival on the farm, and immediately after the breakfast of the farmer's family is over.

  85. The importations comprised Negroes of many dialects, which were distributed on arrival in every direction.

  86. All this took place more than a hundred years after the arrival of the Gipsies in Scotland, and seventy-six years after the date of the treaty between James V.

  87. German Gipsies, on arrival in America, change, at least modify, their names.

  88. From their first arrival in the country till 1579, the Gipsies, as already mentioned, appear to have been treated as a separate people, observing their own laws and customs.

  89. In the Disquisition on the Gipsies, the subject will be fully reviewed, from the date of arrival of the race in the country.

  90. Therefore, soon after her arrival in London, the Marchesa had made herself acquainted with the address of the Dosetts, and now was in Kingsbury Crescent in fulfilment of her promise made at Rome.

  91. On her arrival she was received by Nina, who at once threw herself into all her old intimacy.

  92. Sir Thomas had been particularly irate that morning, and before the arrival of his son-in-law had sworn to himself that Traffick should go.

  93. On her arrival she was made much of by everyone.

  94. Then she had looked with anxiety to the arrival of letters on the Monday afternoon, but had looked in vain.

  95. Lady Albury gave many thoughts to the manner of the man's reception, and determined at last that Jonathan should have an opportunity of saying a word to Ayala immediately on his arrival if he so pleased.

  96. That Augusta had always been angry with her, and since Mr. Traffick's arrival more angry than ever, she had felt; but that Augusta was jealous in respect to her lover had never yet at all come home to Ayala.

  97. On the very first day of his arrival Mr. Traffick was in the House at four, and remained there till four the next morning,--certain Irish Members having been very eloquent.

  98. Of this she said nothing to Mrs. Dosett, though the arrival of Tom's letter must have been known to that lady.

  99. From Paris she wrote, and then from Turin, and then again on their immediate arrival at Rome.

  100. Septimus had been asked only on the day before the party,--as soon, indeed, as his arrival had become known to the Marchesa.

  101. On his arrival here he felt that he was almost making a fool of himself by the extent of his anxiety.

  102. But he had not as yet succeeded in seeing light through his figures when he was interrupted by the arrival of a letter which altogether arrested his attention.

  103. Very soon after his arrival six ounces of bread had been the daily allowance; it was now reduced to three ounces of flour, and, every third day, a fish.

  104. It had two months before Calvin's arrival sworn to live according to the holy evangelical law and Word of God; but it did not seem to understand its own oath.

  105. All received orders to wait at their posts till the arrival of the Inca.

  106. The year 1610 is remarkable for the arrival of the Dutch, who settled in Hirado, and for the destruction in the harbor of Nagasaki of the annual Portuguese galleon sent by the traders of Macao.

  107. They were relieved by the arrival of Gonzalo Mendoza, who, at the beginning of their distresses, had been despatched to the coast of Brazil in quest of supplies.

  108. Akbar awaited their arrival with the utmost impatience.

  109. Hearing of the arrival of the Spaniards he was disposed to regard them as enemies, and, seizing his tomahawk, he was eager to descend from his castle and lead his warriors to battle.

  110. A little way within the mouth of the St. Croix, Cartier selected stations suitable for mooring and laying up his vessels; for he seems, on his arrival at Stadacona, to have already decided upon wintering in the country.

  111. The good fellow had put all his own dreams and hopes out of sight with a firm hand since the arrival of her great news.

  112. Ever since her arrival in August, as she had told Aldous Raeburn, she had taken a warm interest in this man and his family.

  113. She has been taken up with Mr. Raeburn, really, from the first week of her arrival here.

  114. The night after Frank's arrival at the Court Betty Macdonald came down to spend a few weeks with Miss Raeburn, being for the moment that lady's particular pet and protégée.


  115. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arrival" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.