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Example sentences for "boat ashore"

  • As soon as I came to anchor in this bay, I sent my boat ashore to seek for fresh water, but in the evening my men returned, having found none.

  • The day before we came out I sent a boat ashore to the most northerly of the two islands, which is the least of them, catching many small fish in the meanwhile, with hook and line.

  • The 7th, in the morning, I sent my boat ashore on Pigeon Island, and stayed till noon.

  • As soon as I came to anchor I sent my boat ashore with my second mate, to go to the governor.

  • The next morning, being 3 or 4 leagues farther to the eastward, I sent my boat ashore again to find Sesial.

  • I did not anchor here nor send my boat ashore; there being no appearance of getting anything on that spot of sand besides birds that were good for little: though had I not been in haste I would have taken some of them.

  • In the morning of the 18th they stood in, discovered an anchorage, sent a boat ashore, and found it was St. Mary's of the Azores.

  • Coming up to where the ships were anchored, Roldan induced Ojeda to send a boat ashore, when, by an artifice, he captured the boat and its crew.

  • Word must be sent to the captain of the yacht to shift his moorings and to have a boat ashore at the little bay of Horejos at three o'clock.

  • I sent a boat ashore as directed, and after waiting an hour and a half it returned to report that you had not put in an appearance.

  • Island to St. Thomas, where we sent a boat ashore, and after transacting the business for which we stopped, made sail on the 9th for the port of New-York.

  • But early on the following morning, we saw land about four leagues to the leeward, and bore down to the Island for the purpose of sending a boat ashore, to kill seals.

  • He therefore recalled them, and sent a boat ashore with an Indian interpreter who, standing in the boat at the edge of the water, called upon the natives to draw near, and harangued them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    best seen; boat ashore; boat building; boat came; boat could; boat destroyers; boat from; boat was; boats were; cents per; half dozen; having occurred; inform them; know about; looking individual; may have been the; newspaper work; perfect safety; shilling piece; small birds; something else; these lines; vigorous growth; witness between; woman should; you solemnly swear the testimony you