The answer which they had given was voted[b] a scandalous libel, framed for the purpose of exciting sedition; the commissioners were apprehended[c] at Gravesend as national offenders, and Captain Dolphin received orders to conduct them under a guard to the frontiers of Scotland.

At Gravesend at the Angel. RED.

The something else may be an external fact or a mental image; but even in the latter case to conceive the image at all you must mentally stand back from it and look at itsomething like the man who was run in by the police at Gravesend for walking behind himself to see how his new coat fitted.

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.

The ambassadors were at Gravesend on their way home, when Cromwell proposed[a] a new expedient, which they approved.