Use aboard in a sentence
Sentences starting with aboard
- Aboard her was all order and readiness; the men at her guns fuse in hand, an erect and pompous figure of a man, in a cocked hat, on the break of her poop. [9]
Sentences ending with aboard
- He says: "I was a-listenin' to all de talk, en I slips into de river en was gwyne to shove for sho' if dey come aboard. [5]
- One's impulse is to ask, "Where did you come aboard? [5]
- I told him they were out of sight, so he come aboard. [5]
- Here, Tom, take these satchels aboard! [5]
- They cruised along the shore, but in the wrong direction, and shortly our own boat issued from the gloom and took us aboard. [5]
- Rounding to we ran alongside, and General York stepped aboard. [5]
- We put out nothing, we took nothing aboard. [5]
- But the Andrew Jackson is just in from Memphis, and the Captain tells me that he spoke the Memphis packet off Cape Girardeau, and that Clarence was aboard. [9]
- No one knows how he finds out the sailing date, but no doubt he comes down to the dock every day and takes a look, and when he sees baggage and passengers flocking in, recognizes that it is time to get aboard. [5]
- I tell you honestly we'd have come on, if I hadn't seen you aboard. [11]
Short sentences using aboard
- Better get aboard, Jake. [9]
- He was Emperor aboard her. [9]
More example sentences with the word aboard in them
- McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
- How long have you been aboard here? [5]
- Dorothy stepped aboard with the air of Queen Elizabeth come to inspect Lord Howard's flagship. [9]
- John returned presently with a carriage, got the broken-hearted artist and the broken-legged statue aboard, and drove off, whistling low and tranquilly. [5]
- I do not wish to hurry you, but you can't get aboard a ship at sea. [9]
- The little Chevalier watched the boat glide out into the gloom of night, and waited till he knew that they must all be aboard Ranulph's schooner and making for the sea. [11]
- But I didn't want to run the raft in the daytime without anybody aboard to answer questions but me; so I didn't want the plan to begin working till pretty late to-night. [5]
- He recognized the vessel, flew aboard, surprised the wedding party at the altar and exclaimed: "Stop the proceedings--I'm here! [5]
- Eliphalet had reflected upon this incident after he had bid the overseer good-by at Cairo, and had seen that pitiful coffle piled aboard a steamer for New Orleans. [9]
- But he had two pals aboard the boat, hiding, and he knowed they was going to kill him the first chance they got and take the di'monds; because all three stole them, and then this fellow he got hold of them and skipped. [5]
- We had had two hours of that blazing weather down there, and was dreadful thirsty when we got aboard again. [5]
- We took the twenty-five aboard, and delivered twenty-five into the tug--among them several aged ladies, and one blind one--and all without accident. [5]
- We might have tossed a biscuit aboard the big Serapis as she glided ahead of us. [9]
- He sails up to you bearing your own flag, and when he gets aboard he shows the skull and cross-bones. [4]
- She had determined to go away with the master-carpenter, and though he might feel the same hesitation as that which Jean Jacques had shown--she had read her Norman aright aboard the Antoine--yet, still, George Masson should take her away. [11]
- I'll learn you to come aboard this ship without an invite. [5]
- The regiments marched through the streets and aboard the boats, and pushed off before a levee of waving handkerchiefs and nags. [9]
- I cannot help thinking of the cheerful and comfortable time we had aboard the 'Hornet. [5]
- The next day, the weather being foul, they ran so near the Frenchman as to endanger their yards, and Chambers called to Captain Smith to come aboard or he would leave him. [4]
- To add to the troubles, the Ranger proved crank and slow-sailing; and she had only one barrel of rum aboard, which made the men discontented. [9]
- He got aboard the tram himself, and watched the phaeton moving quickly on ahead. [11]
- The next moment the swimmer's face appeared in the circle of light, and in another one the owner of it was hauled aboard, limp and drenched, while cheer on cheer went up. [5]
- He got aboard the King's frigate with a price on his head. [9]
- After Farrar and the Four got aboard it fell to my lot to row the rest of the party to the yacht. [9]
- He got aboard the boat, her decks already blue with troops, and as she backed out with her whistle screaming, the last objects he saw were the gaunt old man and the broad-shouldered young man side by side on the edge of the landing. [9]
- I run along the bank a piece and got aboard, and Jim he grabbed me and hugged me, he was so glad to see me. [5]
- The Delegate of the Ariadne is aboard the Invincible, if he's not been hanged. [11]
- Did they notice that they could make money by climbing down out of that arched sapling and just stepping aboard when the ark scraped by? [5]
- He gave orders that McGilveray should proceed at once aboard the flag-ship, from whence he should join Anstruther's regiment at Cap Rouge. [11]
- I had more than an eye when they brought thee aboard, else I would have killed thee like a sucking-pig under the forecastle, as I have given oath to do. [9]
- He did not stir, but kept drumming till he knew that Gering was aboard, and heard his footsteps, with the captain's, coming. [11]
- The people often stepped aboard the raft, as we glided along the grassy shores, and gossiped with us and with the crew for a hundred yards or so, then stepped ashore again, refreshed by the ride. [5]
- P'r'aps you wanted some word carried aboard, lady? [11]
- This singular proposal Smith accepted on condition Fry would not take anything that would cripple his voyage, or send more men aboard (Smith furnishing the boat) than he allowed. [4]
- Iberville let his ship drift on her path, intent on a hand-to-hand fight aboard the Bridgwater Merchant; the grappling-irons were ready, and as they drifted there was silence. [11]
- An importing house sent two cases of exquisite champagne aboard the ship for me today--Veuve Clicquot and Lac d'Or. [5]
- We went to Sebastopol, after we got tired of Constantinople (got your letter there, and one at Naples,) and there the Commandant and the whole town came aboard and were as jolly and sociable as old friends. [5]
- Then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore, and to take in freight and to discharge freight, all at one and the same time; and such a yelling and cursing as the mates facilitate it all with! [5]
- The young fellows scramble aboard whole--sometimes--not always. [5]
- The king never said nothing about going aboard, so I lost my ride, after all. [5]
- Fulkerson bore himself reverently at times, too, but it was not in him to keep that up, especially when Lindau appeared with more beer aboard than, as Fulkerson said, he could manage shipshape. [8]
- I spent the remaining hours arranging with a young lawyer of my acquaintance to look after my business, and at ten o'clock I was aboard the keel boat with my small baggage. [9]
- It was the raft, and mighty glad was we to get aboard of it again. [5]
- I hope and pray we can make out to reach the islands before we get to this strait; but we have one or two desperate men aboard, though they are quiet enough now. [5]
- But I was powerless, as a mere narrator, to prevent the woman coming aboard with her bandbox. [4]
- He says the people along here in Mississippi and Louisiana will send up the river to buy vegetables rather than raise them, and they will come aboard at the landings and buy fruits of the barkeeper. [5]
- On its being opened the bald and toothless Abednego stumbled in with the word that immediately after Angele and her father came aboard the Honeyflower some fifty halberdiers suddenly appeared upon the Couperon. [11]
- Honest Jack Pearce, one of the few good seamen we had aboard, was rubbing down one of the nines beside me. [9]
- We had one, once, in the Mary Ann, that came aboard with gold spectacles on. [5]
- Nevertheless, my eye on Nancy, I stepped proudly aboard and seized an "oar. [9]
- On the morning of the third the three gentlemen, Messrs. Stephens, Hunter, and Campbell, came aboard of our steamer and had an interview with the Secretary of State and myself of several hours' duration. [7]
- In the harbour of the neighbouring seaport Tanis they went aboard of the commandant's state galley, one of the largest and finest in the royal fleet, where a banquet awaited them. [10]
- At the end of an hour you would find him waiting humbly beside the track, and glad to be taken aboard again. [5]
- When the Duke of Albemarle had come aboard at Plymouth before they set sail, he had shrugged his shoulders at the motley crew. [11]
- In the midst of a heavy snow-storm we embarked in a canoe, taking our saddles aboard and towing our horses after us by their halters. [5]
- The men knew nothing more of her than that she had come aboard at Brest with her mother, a quiet, delicate lady who spoke little with the other passengers. [9]
- The deck was never quiet for a moment, and seldom nearer level than a ladder, and noble were the seas which leapt aboard and went flooding aft. [5]
- I says to myself, if he finds out I'm aboard this boat, he's got me like a rat in a trap. [5]
- If you want me, and you say you do, come aboard the Ninety-Nine, and for to-day be one of us-to-morrow what you will. [11]
- And he put me aboard with as much ceremony as if I had been the General Superintendent. [5]
- She would have lost many more were it not that her onset demoralized the French gunners, while the cheers of the British sailors aboard the Beatitude gave confidence to their mutineer comrades. [11]
- The train was just starting, so we jumped aboard and went tearing away in splendid spirits. [5]
- They're aboard sure--I just knowed it. [5]
- The admiralty pursued its course of seizing men of the mercantile marine, taking them aboard ships, keeping them away for months from the harbours of the kingdom, and then, when their ships returned, denying them the right of visiting their homes. [11]
- Ferguson joined readily in my ideas, but Ruggles kept saying that, while it was all right for an undertaker to get aboard, he couldn't see where it helped horses. [5]
- The brig was in a leaky and dangerous state and had fifty souls aboard her. [9]
- In another second I would a been aboard of her, but just then the door opened. [5]
- And then, when I had gone aboard the 'Annapolis', I knew all at once that I would have given anything to stay, and I thought my heart would break when we left the Severn cliffs behind. [9]
- We had twenty-seven hundred pounds of it aboard, the driver said--"a little for Brigham, and Carson, and 'Frisco, but the heft of it for the Injuns, which is powerful troublesome 'thout they get plenty of truck to read. [5]
- Jim warn't on his island, so I tramped off in a hurry for the crick, and crowded through the willows, red-hot to jump aboard and get out of that awful country. [5]
- The king got his cargo aboard, and then, the talk not turning upon battle, conquest, or iron-clad duel, he dulled down to drowsiness and went off to take a nap. [5]
- I've come to hire you; get your trunk aboard right away. [5]
- She sent out her yawl, and we went aboard, and she was from Cincinnati; and when they found we only wanted to go four or five mile they was booming mad, and gave us a cussing, and said they wouldn't land us. [5]
- That same afternoon he and General Grant and Admiral Porter went aboard the River Queen to see the President. [9]
- Some was for having it aboard, but the rest didn't want to. [5]
- The saucy yawl had aboard Maitresse Aimable, Guida, and a lad to assist Jean in working the sails. [11]
- The yacht Dorset had aboard her the Reverend Lorenzo Dow, an old friend of her commander. [11]
- He said she had a gray mare aboard, and a preacher. [5]
- There were a good many cabin passengers aboard, and three or four hundred deck passengers --so it was said at the time--and not very many of them were astir. [5]
- I saw her going aboard the ferryboat yesterday. [5]
- I wanted to get aboard of her and slink around a little, and see what there was there. [5]
- Come, get aboard, gentlemen, get aboard--don't keep us waiting. [5]
- The young woman gathered up the reins and leaped lightly to the box, the man followed; the little groom touched his fur helmet and scrambled aboard as the horses sprang forward to the music of the softest of bells. [9]
- For bringing his four valises aboard and stowing them in the nettings, he gave his porter four cents, and lightly apologized for the smallness of the gratuity --just with the condescendingest little royal air in the world. [5]
- If it wasn't for All aboard! [6]
- The ferryboat was floating with the current, and I allowed I'd have a chance to see who was aboard when she come along, because she would come in close, where the bread did. [5]
- The two had fled through the hills by the Brocken Path, and though pursued after crossing, had reached the coast, and were taken aboard the Parroquet, which sailed away towards Australia. [11]
- Her beauty has dwelt unfaded in my memory since I last beheld her, aboard the Betsy. [9]
- Then I went down to the wharf and hid my things aboard the up-river boat that we had picked out, and then started back and had another streak of luck. [5]
- So I swum down along the raft till I was most abreast the camp fire in the middle, then I crawled aboard and inched along and got in amongst some bundles of shingles on the weather side of the fire. [5]
- We got the di'monds and went aboard the boat. [5]
- What did you come aboard here, for? [5]
- By daybreak her coal was aboard, then came cleaning up, and preparations to depart. [11]
- The Ocean Spray came along and started into the ice after us, but although she didn't succeed in her kind intention of taking us aboard, her waves washed us out, and that was all we wanted. [5]
- They accepted and came aboard, and the steamboat shoved out up the creek. [5]
- Arrived at Old Cairo, the camp-followers took up the donkeys and tumbled them bodily aboard a small boat with a lateen sail, and we followed and got under way. [5]
- An Arkansas passenger brought an enormous bear aboard, one day, and chained him to a life-boat on the hurricane deck. [5]
- She had five big wigwams aboard, wide apart, and an open camp fire in the middle, and a tall flag-pole at each end. [5]
- One morning, just at daybreak, the last trip she ever made, they took her rudder aboard to mend it; I didn't know anything about it; I backed her out from the wood-yard and went a-weaving down the river all serene. [5]
- We were lying at Acapulco; and, as we went on deck, it happened luckily that the crew were just beginning to hoist some beeves aboard in slings. [5]
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