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Example sentences for "board ship"

  • As soon as the troops were on board ship, sail was made, and the vessels dropped down the stream.

  • Therefore the next morning they embarked on board ship.

  • If they do so, I need simply say that as you had shown me such kindness on board ship I had resolved to take you with me to Madrid in order to see if anything could be done to restore you to reason.

  • The muleteers can have no idea that you have but just joined me, and there is little chance of any of my comrades on board ship overtaking us, as all intend to stop for a few days to recruit themselves before going on.

  • In the mean time, Lorenzo de Aldana remained on board ship, with about an hundred and fifty men, issuing such orders as seemed necessary in the present state of affairs.

  • Just before he sailed and while on board ship, the president made a new partition of such lands and Indians as had become vacant since the former distribution which he made at Cuzco.

  • Alterations, which were not always improvements, began to take place in the manner of receiving these women on board ship.

  • Provision was also made for instruction of both women and children on board ship.

  • Officers in the British navy assisted in the good work by word and deed; in fact, Captain Young, of Deptford Dockyard, first suggested the making of patchwork as an employment on board ship.

  • And this, here, comes near enough to bein' 'board ship to cut you out.

  • I was greatly pleased, on Friday evening last which George Sarawia spent here with me, to hear from him that he had been talking with the Banks Islanders at Norfolk Island, and on board ship, about a plan which he now proposed to me.

  • But the sea itself is a perpetual tonic, and when I am thoroughly accustomed to a sea life, I think I shall be better almost on board ship.

  • Thank you, dear uncle, for the Xavier; a little portable book is very nice for taking on board ship, and I dare say I may read some of his letters in sight of many a heathen island.

  • On the 25th, two more were dead, and buried without time to make coffins, for thirteen still hung between life and death, while fresh cases were sent from on board ship.

  • Mrs. Marryat and the girls accompanied him on board ship.

  • It is surprising how soon people get friendly on board ship, though, as a rule, they quarrel like cats and dogs before they get to the end of it.

  • A regular watch was set, both on the plateau and on board ship.

  • He had not yet examined the arms that his uncle had given him, for he had not thought of them since he saw the gun cases under his berth, on his first arrival on board ship.

  • I wonder if anybody who has not experienced it can realise the stupefying, helpless sensation of being roused up from a sound sleep, in the middle of the night, on board ship, by the cry of 'Fire!

  • I speak from personal experience when I say that every necessary of life on board ship, and many luxuries, can be procured at Tahiti.

  • The bureau of steam engineering has charge of all that relates to the designing, building and repairing of steam machinery, and of all the steam connexions on board ship.

  • Cartridges made up in paper or canvas bags were afterwards used in forts at night-time or on board ship, so that the guns could be more rapidly loaded and with less risk than by using a ladle.

  • On board ship we were not stinted in that respect, but had as much water as we desired for external as well as internal purposes.

  • I was profoundly affected by it when my father read it to us on board ship.

  • Then you know something about work on board ship.

  • He did not curse and swear more than was considered decent and proper on board ship, did his duty, and avoided quarrels.

  • Female immigrants arriving in Sydney were regularly hired on board ship, and lured into a vicious course of life.

  • I was the oldest, so I went to Belfast and got a billet on board ship as cabin boy.

  • As to the black-haired Christian girl--I have seen her many a time on board ship.

  • The young captain, who on board ship was so bashful and retiring, as soon as he was on land altered his time.

  • One can engage a pirate and beat him off if the crew is staunch, but when there is treason on board ship, it makes it an awkward job for those in command.

  • Doubtless the man who had attacked him had not wasted much time in securing his arms, believing that the blow would be sufficient to keep him quiet until he was safe on board ship.

  • I wish to take upon myself all the charges connected with your outfit, and to make you an allowance, similar to that which I shall give to my son, for your expenses on board ship.

  • I shall be able to help about the stores after a while," he said, "but I shall never be the man I was on board ship.

  • He is fond of the sea, and is never so happy as when he is on board ship, though you would hardly think it by his grave face.


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