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Example sentences for "board the"

  • We must at least have a friendly glass on board the Rangoon.

  • A quarter of an hour later found Fix, with a small bag in his hand, proceeding on board the Mongolia; and, before many more moments, the noble steamer rode out at full steam upon the waters of the Red Sea.

  • But really, I don't see how, from the description you have, you will be able to recognize your man, even if he is on board the Mongolia.

  • Fix, left alone, was more impatient than ever, having a presentiment that the robber was on board the Mongolia.

  • It is the strangest feeling--it is as though I knew that he was not on board the ship.

  • He had explained the matter to the French commander before Rokoff arrived, and the officer gave immediate orders to place the Russian in irons and confine him on board the cruiser.

  • He would tell them about the cablegram when they were all on board the train.

  • I had perhaps not known this part, if my curiosity had not led me, the weather being fair and the wind abated, to go on board the ship.

  • In the excellent observations made on board the Novara (12.

  • The noise thus made could be plainly heard on board the "Beagle," when anchored at a quarter of a mile from the shore of Brazil; and Captain Hancock says it can be heard at the distance of a mile.

  • When York Minster, a Fuegian on board the "Beagle," was taken back to his country, the natives told him be ought to pull out the few short hairs on his face.

  • I embarked in the Thames, on board the M- steamer.

  • Sunday morning came, and I was on board the steamer by six o'clock.

  • I went on board the vessel at an early hour, when I found the crew engaged in hauling the anchor close, and making other preparations for sailing.

  • I reason from certain indices; and by these it should appear your brother was not dead, but was carried in a swound on board the lugger.

  • That was our last word on board the SARAH.

  • She told her about the ship and the strangers on board the ship, and she asked the queen what word she should bring to the guardian maidens.

  • He called them around him, and he led them on board the Argo.

  • When dawn came they drew water from a spring, and once more they went on board the Argo.

  • It was but for an instant that I seemed to struggle with a thousand mill-weirs and a thousand flashes of light; that instant past, I was taken on board the galley.

  • This caused great confusion on board the steamer, and I heard them calling to us, and heard the order given to stop the paddles, and heard them stop, but felt her driving down upon us irresistibly.

  • Still, in the same moment, I saw the face tilt backward with a white terror on it that I shall never forget, and heard a great cry on board the steamer, and a loud splash in the water, and felt the boat sink from under me.

  • So that when you went on board the Pharaon, everybody could see that you held a letter in your hand?

  • Proof of this crime will be found on arresting him, for the letter will be found upon him, or at his father's, or in his cabin on board the Pharaon.

  • Should it not be found in the possession of father or son, then it will assuredly be discovered in the cabin belonging to the said Dantes on board the Pharaon.

  • So saying, he leaped into a boat, desiring to be rowed on board the Pharaon, where M.

  • On board the Pilgrim, everything went on regularly, each one trying to get along as smoothly as possible; but the comfort of the voyage was evidently at an end.

  • After supper, two of us took the captain on board the Lagoda.

  • In addition to, and perhaps partly as a consequence of, this state of things, there was trouble brewing on board the vessel.

  • The ship lay off and on, and a boat came alongside of us, and put on board the captain, a plain young Quaker, dressed all in brown.

  • Then they awoke on board the Thistle, and it seemed they had all in readiness, for there was scarce a second's bustle on the deck before we saw a skiff put round her stern and begin to pull lively for the coast.

  • We were besides the only creatures at all young on board the Rose, except a white-faced boy that did my old duty to attend upon the table; and it came about that Catriona and I were left almost entirely to ourselves.

  • Whereupon, with scarce more words, we stepped suddenly on board the boat, cast off, and set the lug.

  • That my reasons for resolving to take this step were numerous and weighty, may be inferred from the fact that I chose rather to risk my fortunes among the savages of the island than to endure another voyage on board the Dolly.

  • We then ratified our engagement with an affectionate wedding of palms, and to elude suspicion repaired each to his hammock, to spend the last night on board the Dolly.

  • If there are sure to be vessels enough to make it impossible for a single man to be left behind, go by sea we will; but if part of us are to be left while part go by sea, we will not set foot on board the vessels.

  • There was a third officer on board the fleet, the Lacedaemonian Cheirisophus, who had been sent for by Cyrus, and had brought with him seven hundred hoplites, over whom he was to act as general in the service of Cyrus.

  • All this had been agreed upon and arranged with his comrades on board the vessel, as I now discover.

  • It had been our original plan that I should keep out of the way until dark, and then slip on board the brig; but, as there was now a thick fog in our favor, it was agreed to lose no time in secreting me.

  • But on board the Grampus, it seems, he was regarded, at the time of the mutiny, with feelings more of derision than of anything else.

  • In one of these, we all distinctly heard the mate tell one of the men to "go forward, have an eye upon them, for he wanted no such secret doings on board the brig.

  • All this had occupied nearly five minutes, and it was supposed to be hardly within the bounds of possibility that any individual could be saved--allowing any to have been on board the boat.

  • The six men who survived were on board the praus, and escaped by at once setting into the small boat and rowing out to sea.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accepted from; already said; also that; although only; aunt said; becomes necessary; board again; board her; board school; board ship; board some; board the; board their; board them; board were; boarding school; each sentence; greatest length; large amount; limestone rock; might have been anticipated; negro school; pray give; realize what; universally true; what kind