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Example sentences for "went aboard"

  • The 5th of August I went aboard to visit the general, Captain Nicholas Downton, who was then very ill, and we got word of his death next day.

  • In a few Days they took a Snow with a few Hands, and Fern, the Carpenter, one William Phillips, Wood and Taylor, went aboard to take Possession of her.

  • As soon as one came alongside we went aboard, and passed by Gravesend and other villages.

  • We went aboard, and his passion having subsided, we satisfied him with two ducats,[468] and took our goods to the packet boat.

  • When we went aboard, we found some passengers already on the ship.

  • At the levee we went aboard the Crescent City, a boat which was waiting to convey troops.

  • We went aboard at daylight, and soon after were moving up the Missouri.

  • Without seeming to do so, I watched his every movement until I saw the last article safely placed in the car, and then I went aboard myself.

  • On the 19th, went aboard again to scuttle the decks, in order to get some beef and pork out of the hold; we also scuttled the carpenter's store-room for nails and other things of service.

  • The next day, the same weather, we went aboard, and scuttled for flour in the forehold.

  • Saturday the 6th, the wind at south and fair weather, we went aboard, got out of the hold eight casks of flour, two casks of wine, and a quarter cask and three hogsheads of brandy.

  • The following day we went aboard, cut down and tost overboard the ship's awning, to make a deck for the long-boat.

  • They had told him about it when he went aboard the Laird with our wounded men.

  • And I don't forget that he went aboard the Crested Foam blind drunk, and made an ass of himself generally!

  • Winnie hasn't the least idea that Buck was intoxicated when he went aboard the Crested Foam, and she shall never know it from me!

  • Afterwards I went aboard the Bunder Abbas to hear Mr. Scarlett's account of what had happened and to see what repairs were still necessary.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain time; one day; simple substance; strength and; went aboard; went ahead; went around; went away; went before; went directly; went down; went downstairs; went forth; went from; went home; went over; went past; went slowly; went south; went thither; went through; went towards; went upstairs; went with; went yesterday; widely known