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Example sentences for "came ashore"

  • For the place was so entirely deserted that, saving for the remains of the wreck, he must have believed himself mistaken in the locality, and the lieutenant began to question him whether it had been daylight when he came ashore.

  • But Frodi laid the bill at the feet of Einar, and said: "I bring thee the bill which is thine own, since it came ashore on thy beaches.

  • Neither Einar nor any of his men told him how he came ashore, but spoke as if they had saved him.

  • I answered, When I came ashore I was but young, and that which then I knew, now I had forgot for want of practice, having had neither ink nor paper ever since I came ashore.

  • Upwards of three Months my Father lay in this manner upon his Bed, having only under him a Mat and the Carpet he sat upon in the Boat when he came ashore, and a small Quilt I had to cover him withall.

  • It is true I had learned English for seven years in school, but when we came ashore it proved that I could scarcely make myself understood in a single sentence.

  • A young lady was travelling with him--that is, she went as a single girl, but they got married as soon as we came ashore.

  • The barque “Iron Duke” came ashore, and sunk near the Britannia Pier.

  • At the Mooragh, d'ye say--came ashore at the Mooragh?

  • It came ashore intact, a full-sized woman carved from pine and painted white.

  • It came ashore at Cap'n Sproul's feet as avant-coureur of the rest of the wreckage.

  • When I came ashore I thought no one was living here.

  • I came ashore to instruct you to let my man and my property alone.

  • I came ashore to discover if you had a large water supply and if I might fill my casks.

  • If he were to return from Cuba too soon, there would be nothing left for me but to have him shot as soon as he came ashore.

  • I brought a cargo from New York, just as if it had been sent from Liverpool, but I've had to prove that I'm not an American ever since I came ashore.

  • In other things than horsemanship, Ned had made wonderful advances since he came ashore out of the norther, in the Bay of Vera Cruz.

  • That Seville coffee-urn had ornamented the table in the house at Vera Cruz, his first refuge after he came ashore out of the destructive norther.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another picture; but without; came aboard; came across; came before; came face; came forth; came forward; came from; came hither; came home; came nearer; came nigh; came out; came rushing; came the; came unto; came vnto; early settlement; feed the; four shillings; popular name; suitable localities; then asked; under circumstances; upon their