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Example sentences for "going ashore"

  • I'm going ashore just as soon as we get to Genoa, and you'll never set eyes on me again.

  • Then indeed he lost no time in going ashore--alone, of course, from motives of delicacy.

  • Heyst went to stay in Schomberg's hotel, going ashore in the hotel launch.

  • We got our chests all ready for going ashore, ate the last "duff" we expected to have on board the ship Alert; and talked as confidently about matters on shore as though our anchor were on the bottom.

  • You're going ashore: if only for playing me and my second officer such a dirty trick.

  • The only thing that interrupted our paddling the following day was our going ashore to portage around a picturesque waterfall where two huge rocks, on the very brink of the cascade, split the river into three.

  • Going ashore, we quickly made our toilets, donning our very finest in order to make a good appearance on our arrival at the Fort--as is the custom of the Northland.

  • When we gave them the choice of taking a couple of dozen or going ashore, not one hesitated.

  • So then the old man couldn't help Allen's going ashore.

  • Yet, if I were a poet, I would rather choose a subject in those two brigs in the Thames in a collision, going ashore, full of curses, than in all the stars which shine upon the ocean.

  • Mr. Vanderholt had no intention of going ashore.

  • How kind of you to say you would not mind my going ashore," said Daireen, walking up to her.

  • My dear Mrs. Crawford, you surely cannot intend to give your consent to that child's going ashore tomorrow.

  • I am very sorry I promised Mr. Harwood," said the lady; "if going ashore would do all of this it would certainly be better for Daireen to remain aboard.

  • Mr Green, our astronomer, was also declining; and these, among other circumstances, embittered the delay which prevented our going ashore.

  • The Passage from Oteroah to New Zealand; Incidents which happened in going ashore there, and while the Ship lay in Poverty Bay.

  • It will mean double duty for some of you to-night, for I'm going ashore presently.

  • There's a little town down here somewhere, as I see by the map, and when we get to it I'm going ashore to send telegrams.

  • At Vicksburg the boys offered the hospitality of their boat to their guests until such time as proper clothing could be provided for them, their condition of destitution being one in which it was impossible for them to think of going ashore.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blessed them; comparatively recent; fair size; feeling very; former lives; going about; going abroad; going ashore; going concern; going down; going everywhere; going forth; going from; going home; going north; going over; going right; going through; going west; human association; indefinite period; kneel down; popularly known; pound trout; practical philosophy; two years