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Example sentences for "took passage"

  • He then tells how he arose to a position of usefulness and later served larger groups of communicants in Philadelphia and the District of Columbia.

  • We took passage on the French ship Normandie, departing from the Morton Street Pier in New York on May 14th, and nine days later we landed at Havre, from which port we proceeded to the French capital.

  • The tories in Boston looked on with mingled fear and confidence.

  • On the 8th of May there was an alarm that the royal troops were coming out, and the militia of the near towns were summoned.

  • We took passage together on one of these floating houses, with the arrangements of which I had now become familiar.

  • I took passage in the first ark that attempted the descent for the season.

  • At New Orleans, where I remained several days, I took passage in the brig Arethusa, Captain H.

  • For this purpose, I took passage in a coasting vessel at New York, and had a voyage of a novel and agreeable kind, which supplied me with the desired information.

  • He worked his passage on a canal boat from his home to Oswego, where he took passage on board a vessel just leaving for Cleveland.

  • A schooner was at anchor outside, and as soon as his venture was on board, he took passage with it to Buffalo, and by canal to New York.

  • Having thus opened the door of salvation to the Irish nation by the proclamation of the gospel, Elder Taylor, on the 6th of August, took passage on a steamer at Belfast for the city of Glasgow.

  • From New Orleans he took passage in the steam-packet, Patrick Henry, for St. Louis, where he arrived on the 25th of March.

  • After a pleasant sojourn of three weeks in Ireland, I took passage in one of the mail steamers for Liverpool, and arriving there was soon on the road to the metropolis.

  • After remaining in Liverpool two days, I took passage in the little steamer Adelaide for this city.

  • Abandoning the idea of visiting Boston, he took passage on a canal boat for Rochester.

  • He took passage on a New Bedford brig bound for Nantes.

  • I took passage on a steamer at Ripley, Ohio, for Pittsburg, about the middle of May, 1839.

  • I took passage December 4th in the steamer John Aull for New Orleans.

  • We bade him good-bye, and with many wishes for his speedy recovery, we took passage on a steamer for St. Louis.

  • At Chagres we found a small stern wheeled river steamer and took passage on it for Gorgona, as far as the steamer could well go up the river.

  • The steamer we took passage in was the Northerner, advertised to sail on the twenty-ninth day of November, 1850.

  • We took passage on a steamboat called the Spread Eagle and landed in Fort Benton ninety days afterwards; and I assure you these days were not spent in picnicking.

  • So, without the knowledge of my parents, I took passage on board a steamship named the “Vigo” bound for New York.

  • I can only say that, while we took passage on the boat named above, it did not carry us all the way to Fort Benton by any means; in fact, the reverse happened; we tugged and carried it much of the distance.

  • These traitors, or land pirates, took passage on board of the first Steamboat down the river, in search of my owners.

  • And against the advice of all my friends, I went back to Cincinnati, where I took passage on board of a Southern steamboat to Madison, in the State of Indiana, which was only ten miles from where Wm.

  • I took passage on a steamer that had nearly 300 people on board, going there to buy homes, and, of course, they had plenty of money with them.

  • I took passage on board a screw steamer, which had sails also.

  • The check was signed by one of the largest planters on the coast, and I knew it was good if presented before payment was stopped; so I took passage on the Mary Kean (one of the fastest boats on the river), bound for New Orleans.

  • Chapter 53 My Boyhood's Home WE took passage in one of the fast boats of the St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company, and started up the river.

  • Chapter 38 The House Beautiful WE took passage in a Cincinnati boat for New Orleans; or on a Cincinnati boat--either is correct; the former is the eastern form of putting it, the latter the western.

  • We took passage in her for Memphis, and gave up the idea of stopping off here and there, as being impracticable.

  • About the middle of May, or a little later, perhaps, I took passage on the steamer Nightingale, for Saint Louis.

  • I took passage on a splendid steamer—one of the finest on the Ohio or Mississippi.


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