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Example sentences for "take passage"

  • During that struggle he sent a cargo of provisions to Ireland, where much distress existed, and then invited as many emigrants as the vessel would carry to take passage to America in her, free of charge.

  • I wish to take passage in her; but a thousand concerns of business and obstacles of various kinds appear to oppose.

  • But after I had consented to give him a day, I sent to take passage for to-morrow, and lo!

  • My business in court will detain me till Saturday of this week, when I propose to take passage in sloop.

  • You are then to take passage to New Orleans in a barge of furs which Monsieur Gratiot is sending down.

  • Were I to take passage in the Betsy, I know I should be in love with him long before we got to Norfolk.

  • It was arranged that our party should take passage on board one of the American lake steamers at a little port on the Welland Canal.

  • The King agreed to go to Berebee, and assist in the grand palaver to be held there; complying with a proposal of the Commodore, to take passage thither in the Macedonian.

  • Mr. Morris, the principal man of the settlement, came on board, in order to take passage with us to Monrovia.

  • Mr. Bushnell (one of the two missionaries who proposed to take passage with us from Cape Palmas, a month since) is now on board as a passenger to Prince's Island.

  • Yokka-ichi is a small seaport, whence most travellers along the Tokaido take passage to Miya in the steam passenger launches plying between these points.

  • A pleasant day in Batoum, and we take passage aboard a Messageries Maritimes steamer for Constantinople.

  • On the 18th sails the opium steamer Wing-sang to Hong-Kong, aboard which I have been intending to take passage, and whose date of departure has somewhat influenced my speed in coming toward Calcutta.

  • Several days are spent at Suez, waiting for the steamer which we will call the Mandarin, on which I am to take passage to Karachi.

  • She was not a passenger ship; but I was allowed to take passage on her, because I wanted to go round Cape Horn.

  • I intend to take passage on the boat, and I can go up to the office at any time and pay my fare.

  • We take passage on a coasting steamer which plies between Stockholm and St. Petersburg by way of Åbo and Helsingfors, a distance of about six hundred miles.

  • From Dublin we take passage on board of a steamer for Liverpool, the commercial metropolis of England, which contains about seven hundred thousand inhabitants.

  • From here we take passage in a steamer across the Irish Sea to Belfast, the principal city of Northern Ireland.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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