Use ashore in a sentence
Sentences ending with ashore
- I thought I would go and hide somewhere till I got a chance to slide ashore. [5]
- We went out with the skiff and towed it ashore. [5]
- Honora had not wished to go ashore. [9]
- We ran that whole battery of nine blasts in a row, and it was certainly one of the most exciting and uncomfortable weeks I ever spent, either aship or ashore. [5]
- When the boat touched the levee at New Orleans she bade good-by to her comrades on the _Grand Mogul_ and moved her kit ashore. [5]
- Jack tripped up this ungallant speech by remarking that if Mavick was in this mood he did not know why he came ashore. [4]
- The evening of the second day we set off again, and had a good night's run, and in the dawn, spying a snug little bay, we stood in, and went ashore. [11]
- They were in the rapids, and would have rejected any friendly rope thrown to draw them ashore. [4]
- We landed on the big island and went ashore. [5]
- As soon as the anchor was down, Jack and I got a boat and went ashore. [5]
Short sentences using ashore
- You swam ashore with it. [9]
- We'll get ashore, now. [5]
- Why shouldn't they come ashore? [5]
- We're ashore. [11]
Sentences containing ashore two or more times
- The captain had all the skiffs hauled up on the raft, alongside of his wigwam, and wouldn't let the dead men be took ashore to be planted; he didn't believe a man that got ashore would come back; and he was right. [5]
More example sentences with the word ashore in them
- I am 59 years old; yet I never had a friend before who put out a hand and tried to pull me ashore when he found me in deep waters. [5]
- The old man with the spectacles was presently overtaken by a stout, elderly woman, who landed in the exhausted condition of a porpoise that has come ashore, and stood regardless of everything but her own weight, while member after member of the party straggled up. [4]
- I stepped ashore with the feeling of one who returns out of a dead-and-gone generation. [5]
- And, moreover, he will come ashore for no one. [9]
- Everybody goes away when I want them to help me tow the raft ashore, and I can't do it by myself. [5]
- He drew ashore whatever he wanted that would serve his purpose. [6]
- He said: "I went ashore at Naples one voyage when I was in that trade, and stood around helping my passengers, for I could speak a little Italian. [5]
- Next day they went ashore at a place Newport calls Queen Apumatuc's Bower. [4]
- On the following Wednesday, with her flag flying and her sails set, the Peggy Stewart was run ashore on Windmill Point. [9]
- By and by we took boat and went ashore at Kailua, designing to ride horseback through the pleasant orange and coffee region of Kona, and rejoin the vessel at a point some leagues distant. [5]
- One day he was summoned ashore, but declined to go, and requested an interview with ten gentlemen. [4]
- When the boat was gone the king made me paddle up another mile to a lonesome place, and then he got ashore and says: "Now hustle back, right off, and fetch the duke up here, and the new carpet-bags. [5]
- Stepping ashore, he turned to where the Duchess stood on the deck, gazing out into the night. [11]
- Besides, the woman to whom he had become attached at the Nore had been put ashore on the day Dyck gained control. [11]
- My conscience got to stirring me up hotter than ever, until at last I says to it, "Let up on me--it ain't too late yet--I'll paddle ashore at the first light and tell. [5]
- If I was to slip ashore without anybody seeing me, they would know it inside of an hour. [5]
- We have had to run ashore for shelter every time it has rained heretofore, but Joseph has been putting in his odd time making a water-proof sun-bonnet for the boat, and now we sail along dry although we had many heavy showers this morning. [5]
- Everybody went ashore to look around, and spy out the land, and have that luxury of luxuries to sea-voyagers--a land-dinner. [5]
- I am sorry to know that we shall soon have to quit the vessel and go ashore if she keeps up this speed. [5]
- I hurried back to give Farrar a hand with the ropes, and it was O'Meara who caught the one I flung ashore and wound it around a pile. [9]
- We had not time to go ashore in Muscatine, but had a daylight view of it from the boat. [5]
- The very first thing they did, coming ashore at Beirout, was to quarrel in the boat. [5]
- We went ashore there, and tried to take an interest in the ship-building, and in the little oysters which the harbor yields; but whether we did take an interest or not has passed out of memory. [4]
- Peace fell upon the travelers like a garment, and although they had as much difficulty in landing their baggage as the early Pilgrims had in getting theirs ashore, the circumstance was not able to disquiet them much. [4]
- Fifty guns shook the town, the great O'Reilly limped ashore through the smoke, and Louisiana was lost to France. [9]
- But Miriam, unheeding the question, calmly continued with a defiant keenness of glance that contradicted her measured speech: "After the Lord's guidance had delivered us from the enemy, the Red Sea washed ashore the most beautiful woman we have seen for a long time. [10]
- From the sea the old brown farmhouse seemed a snug haven of refuge; from the inland road it appeared, with its spreading, sloping roofs, like an ancient sea-craft come ashore, which had been covered in and then embowered by kindly Nature with foliage. [4]
- Went ashore in the forenoon at Port Louis, a little town, but with the largest variety of nationalities and complexions we have encountered yet. [5]
- He complained of the food all the way over, and was always threatening to go ashore unless there was a change. [5]
- When I escaped the cruelties of Pirats and most furious stormes, a long time alone in a small Boat at Sea, and driven ashore in France, the good Lady Chanoyes bountifully assisted me. [4]
- Go ashore amongst the cholera and take the risks? [5]
- He had a strange sensation of new life, as, with delicacy and gentleness, he lifted her up in his strong arms and stepped ashore. [11]
- Bartja's fall on stepping ashore had disturbed her, and she had with her own eyes seen an owl fly from the left side close by his head. [10]
- The train bands stepped ashore and gossiped with friends a quarter of an hour, then pulled out and repeated this at the succeeding villages. [5]
- 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]
- The 'spars,' and sometimes even their supporting derricks, were sent ashore, and no means left to set the boat afloat in case she got aground. [5]
- So pap said somebody got to get ashore and get help somehow. [5]
- After making things ship-shape and hoisting the jack, both father and son rowed ashore to the little church at Asquith. [9]
- By and by she come along, and she drifted in so close that they could a run out a plank and walked ashore. [5]
- They never had seen any good rocks before, or at least any that were not watched, and so they were excusable for hopping ashore in frantic delight and clapping an iron fence around this one. [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 passengers and scene, Stanhope was thinking, were typically New England, until the boat made a landing at Naushon Island, when he was reminded somehow of Scotland, as much perhaps by the wild furzy appearance of the island as by the "gentle-folks" who went ashore. [4]
- There is no scene, no picture, in the heroic times more pleasing than the meeting of Ulysses with this damsel on the wild seashore of Scheria, where the Wanderer had been tossed ashore by the tempest. [4]
- Peste, it is scarce an hour ago I threatened to row ashore and break your heads. [9]
- But I should say that if he turns up anywhere, he'll come ashore somewhere about Grinidge to-morrow, at ebb tide, eh, mate? [12]
- And Van Dam said that sooner or later all men went ashore. [4]
- As they had rounded the point, where they were hid from view, Abednego dropped overboard and swam ashore on the rising tide, making his way to the manor to warn Buonespoir. [11]
- Somebody told, I reckon; for in about eight or ten minutes them two pals come tearing forrard as tight as they could jump and darted ashore and was gone. [5]
- Yet on getting ready to leave the ship I found four of the lads ready to come ashore in the boat! [5]
- The body of Quilp being found--though not until some days had elapsed--an inquest was held on it near the spot where it had been washed ashore. [12]
- Some wanted to put him ashore. [5]
- I had been put ashore in New Orleans by Captain Klinenfelter. [5]
- At length the prow slid in among the rushes, was seized vigorously by Gaspard and Hippolyte, and the boat hauled ashore. [9]
- Scarce was the pinnace brought into the wind before I had leaped ashore and greeted with a shout the Hall servants drawn up in a line on the green, grinning a welcome. [9]
- Several of our passengers belonged in Honolulu, and these were sent ashore; but nobody could go ashore and return. [5]
- When I was out with the Innocents Abroad, the ship stopped in the Russian port of Odessa and I went ashore, with others, to view the town. [5]
- Then he went out over the breast- board with his clothing in flames, and was the last person to get ashore. [5]
- We must have our pleasure ashore, and sleep at sea," and the captain tipped his flask with a leer. [9]
- From the time one starts ashore till he gets back again, he execrates it. [5]
- Ned Blakely, and one of us is a better man than 'tother--I'll know which, before I go ashore. [5]
- Leaving Farrar and one of Mr. Cooke's friends to take care of the yacht, the rest of us went ashore, built a roaring fire and raised a tent, and proceeded to make ourselves as comfortable as circumstances would allow. [9]
- Of course no one is allowed to go on board the ship, or come ashore from her. [5]
- But we held on to the canoe, and although we were washed down nearly to the Carson, we managed to push the boat ashore and make a safe landing. [5]
- When Brown came off watch he went straight to the captain, who was talking with some passengers on the boiler deck, and demanded that I be put ashore in New Orleans--and added-- 'I'll never turn a wheel on this boat again while that cub stays. [5]
- A good many of us got ashore at the first way-port to seek another ship. [5]
- From the deck of the steamboat he addressed the town, and then, to the relief of the passengers, he decided to go ashore. [4]
- But the dregs of the fugitive hordes were still more greedy than they, and wherever the sea washed a costly ornament ashore, there were fierce outcries and angry quarrelling. [10]
- At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards downstream, out of danger of possible stragglers. [5]
- But I put Mr. Allen ashore in Canada, with the funds to get off with, and then my duty's done. [9]
- The comfort of most of Philippus's guests was destroyed, and the ladies uttered a sigh of relief when they had descended from the lofty galley and the boats that conveyed them ashore, and their feet once more pressed the solid land. [10]
- In the breezy morning we went ashore and visited the ruined temple of the last god Lono. [5]
- We walked ashore, Monsieur Vigo and I, and we joined a staring group of keel boatmen and river-men under the willows. [9]
- Shouts of joy mingled with yells of fury; and awakened the conjecture that the sea had washed some specially valuable prize ashore. [10]
- When the great Memphis packet bore down upon him, he had, been seen from her guards, and rescued and made much of; and set ashore at the next landing, for fear her captain would get into trouble. [9]
- If you let me know you are coming, I will be there to meet you when you step ashore, to give you a firm hand- clasp; to tell you that in this land there is a good place for you, if you will win it. [11]
- Put when the main body of American novelists got fairly ashore and into position the literary militia of the island rose up as one man, with the strength of a thousand, to repel the invaders and sweep them back across the Atlantic. [4]
- It didn't seem like we was the same lot that was in such a state to find land and git ashore, but it was. [5]
- When we at length reached Buffalo he took his teacup and carpet-bag of resolutions and went ashore in a great hurry. [4]
- While the steamboat lay at the wharf at Rorschach, two stout porters came on board, and shouldered his baggage to take it ashore. [4]
- The boat was landed in the eddy just above the town, and through the exertions of the citizens the cabin passengers, officers, and part of the crew and deck passengers were taken ashore and removed to the hotels and residences. [5]
- We drifted ashore just below the other boat. [5]
- One of them jumped into the water and persisted in coming ashore in my boat. [5]
- Oh, Charmian, what joy it was when, with open arms and overflowing heart, he swung his mighty figure ashore like a youth, while his handsome, heroic face beamed with ardent love for me! [10]
- Ashore, it was--well, it was an eternal circus. [5]
- I told him in French that all we wanted was to walk over his thwarts and step ashore, and asked him what he went away out there for. [5]
- Then he invested in a mountain, and started a farm up there, so as to be out of the way when the sea came ashore again. [5]
- Every night now I used to slip ashore towards ten o'clock at some little village, and buy ten or fifteen cents' worth of meal or bacon or other stuff to eat; and sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. [5]
- Captain Montgomery, whom I had steered for when he was a pilot, commanded the Confederate fleet in the great battle before Memphis; when his vessel went down, he swam ashore, fought his way through a squad of soldiers, and made a gallant and narrow escape. [5]
- As soon as I got ashore I hunted up a striped pole, and shortly found one. [5]
- The Captain and I are ashore here under guard, waiting to know whether they will let the ship anchor or not. [5]
- I kind of hoped the boat would land somers, and we could skip ashore and not have to run the risk of this row, I was so scared of Bud Dixon, but she was an upper-river tub and there warn't no real chance of that. [5]
- Carmen gave him her piece of wreckage to hang on to, and swam ashore without help. [11]
- Nothing could dampen her ardour, not the sight of the rain-soaked stone houses when we got ashore, nor even the frigid luncheon we ate in the lugubrious hotel. [9]
- They were too heavy, they were too light, they were built of old material, and they went to the bottom, they went ashore, they broke up and floated in fragments. [4]
- On the 17th he was brought ashore to answer the charge of Jehu [John? [4]
- Then we should have had the good luck to step promptly ashore. [5]
- One of us has got to go ashore. [5]
- I wished I hadn't ever come ashore that night to see such things. [5]
- Major "Jack" Downing had been a Mississippi pilot of early days, but had long since retired from the river to a comfortable life ashore, in an Ohio town. [5]
- But when he got up in the morning, luck was against him again: a brother thief had robbed him while he slept, and gone ashore at some intermediate landing. [5]
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