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in Occurrences 371%

He here engaged in foreign trade; and, partaking of the prosperity which then attended American commerce, he gradually extended his business, and finally embarked in our new branch of traffic to the East Indies and China.

on Occurrences 290%

We started by rail, stopped at a station called Wannsee, and embarked on board a small steamer, the Princess Royal receiving the guests as they arrived on board.

for Occurrences 187%

On the 25th of April, 1816, Byron embarked for Ostend.

at Occurrences 98%

I accordingly embarked at Calcutta, in a coasting vessel that was bound to Madras.

with Occurrences 75%

I shall embark with great satisfaction, still entertaining the ardent wish that, after my departure, the dignity of the Crown in this unfortunate Province may not appear beneath your Lordship's concern.' Burgoyne had spent the winter in London and had arrived at Quebec about the same time as Germain's dispatches.

from Occurrences 24%

As he passed slowly down to the Battery to embark from New York, the sun shone brightly on acres of drays awaiting their turn to approach the Southern steamers.

without Occurrences 13%

" The descent was swift, at times reckless, but the party embarked without accident.

as Occurrences 7%

A bull, two cows and their calves, with some sheep, were embarked as a present from King George to the Otahietans in hopes to start stocking the island.

by Occurrences 4%

However, as there was little time for consultation, and the same danger attended their stay, in that perplexity and confusion, as their return, they bound up his wound with his scarf, and partly by force, partly by entreaty, carried him to the boats, in which they all embarked by break of day.

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After having staid four months, they were taken to Gravesend in one of his Majesty's carriages, whence they embarked aboard the transport ship, the Prince of Wales, George Dunbar, Captain, on the return voyage to Savannah, where they arrived on the 27th of December, 1734.

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On the other hand, to fight in the dark was to tempt fortune; the French were still the most numerous, their ground strong, and their disorder facilitated the original plan of embarking during the night.

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*** "The King and Queen of Roumania," says a Paris paper, "will embark after Christmas, orthodox style, for Western Europe."

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On 9th July the marines, who had been carefully selected, embarked under the command of Lieutenant Molesworth Phillips, and the following day officers and men were paid up to 30th June, and petty officers and seamen received in addition two months' advance.

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In this vessel, thus stored, I embarked about a fortnight after the day of the mysterious shock.

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They succeeded in calming him; he arrived at St. Louis with the caravan.[B10] The sixty-three who embarked near the Moles of Angel, had a longer series of fatigue to endure: they had to go between eighty and ninety leagues, in the immense desert of Zaara.

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Had he not embarked before this on desperate adventures; had he not fought in the face of overwhelming odds, and managed to hold his head up?

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Frederick embarks to-night, and sails to-morrow morning at four.

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We will see if they can embark within three hours.

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When Congress objected that the Loyalists were not included in the agreement with regard to evacuation, Carleton replied that he held opposite views; and that in any case it was a point of honour with him that no troops should embark until the last person who claimed his protection should be safely on board a British ship.

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To you, then, gentlemen, who are charged with the sovereign functions of legislation, and to those associated with you, I look with encouragement for that guidance and support which may enable us to steer with safety the vessel in which we are all embarked amidst the conflicting elements of a troubled world.

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It hath fallen out, sometimes, that both Papists and Protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked into one ship.

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From the introduction of Harry Penrose, fresh from Oxford, embarking like a gallant gentleman upon the adventure of arms, to the tragedy that blotted him out of a scheme that had misused and ruined him, the record moves with a dreadful singleness of intent.

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