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Example sentences for "came aboard"

  • The chief, before he came aboard, presented me with a piece of cloth and a green talc hatchet; to Mr Forster he also gave a piece or cloth; and the girl gave another to Mr Hodges.

  • On the 6th October, Medi Joffer came aboard my ship, accompanied by four chiefs and many others, bringing me a great present, and came to establish trade with us, and to solicit the release of the Guzerat ship.

  • The 27th we went to Swally road, when Thomas Kerridge and Edward Christian came aboard.

  • I went to the top of the islands and before I came back it was hied a foot water, and so without tarrying I came aboard.

  • When I had anchored, Mr Thornton, the master of the Trades-increase, came aboard, when he began with a heavy heart to unfold by degrees all that had happened since we parted at Aden.

  • The 2d, came aboard my interpreter at Zenan, Ally Hoskins, with a message from the pacha, desiring me not to take any violent courses here, but to seek justice at Constantinople.

  • This is the first time you have let me talk to you since we came aboard, and already you are weary.

  • I heard all that you and Captain Lancaster said about me that first night we came aboard.

  • Yes, I remembered that just as I came aboard, and I was so vexed at my foolish bouquet that I tossed it overboard," Lancaster replied, with the utmost coolness.

  • So then we had not a minute to spare, and of course I was flurried when I came aboard.

  • I hope I did not startle you when I came aboard.

  • I have hardly seen either of them since the day I came aboard.

  • From what I have seen since I came aboard, I guess you were hustling about that time?

  • Indeed, this was by far the longest conversation he had indulged in since he came aboard; nor was he finished with it.

  • This steward has served us since we came aboard," went on Bronston, indicating Lawrence.

  • Which of us two seemed to be in charge on the night you first saw us--the night we came aboard--this man or I?

  • I wasn't in my stocking feet when I came aboard, was I?

  • No doubt she's met only smooth weather till we came aboard her.

  • Then the old gentleman, along wi' the two saynoreetas, came aboard; when we cleared an' stood out to sea.

  • I've had a fright more than once--several times, since we came aboard.

  • And he said the presence of the trawler here fitted into something he had in mind, which he would tell us about when he came aboard.

  • In fact, I saw the aerial when we came aboard.

  • It was midnight when we came aboard," said Jack.

  • I was standing upon the quarter-deck when he came aboard, and he approached me with a countenance expressive of the utmost mortification and chagrin.

  • The Ostend captain was there when I came aboard, and I fancied, though I then knew not why, that he and Captain Kirby looked at one another in a very strange and peculiar manner when I entered the cabin.

  • The day after I came aboard, wind and tide being fair, and Captain Croker having received his orders, we hoisted anchor and sailed out of the harbor, and by four o'clock had dropped the land astern.

  • For until I came aboard I was ever a wondrous light sleeper, Godby.

  • And this was to shape my course by considering attentively the look of each wreck that I came aboard of, and the look of those surrounding it, and by then going forward to whichever one of them seemed to be of the most modern build.

  • One other thing I did find in the captain's pantry that was as good, save for the mould that coated the outside of it, as when it came aboard--and because of its excellent condition was all the more tantalizing.

  • And her age was so evident as I came aboard of her--having crossed the deck of the Wasp hastily, picking my way among the scattered bones--that of a sudden my faith in my fine plan for getting out of the tangle began to wane.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came aboard; came and; came ashore; came down; came face; came forth from the; came here; came hither; came into; came nearer; came nigh; came not; came suddenly; came they; came thither; came together; came towards; came vnto; camera obscura; curious instance; faut que; given line; made clear; must love; relation between; shaped piece