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  • At the table next to Harry and Ron, Dean had paired up with Neville, who immediately embarked on a longwinded explanation of a nightmare involving a pair of giant scissors wearing his grandmother's best hat; Harry and Ron merely looked at each other glumly.†   (source)
  • I stared at the passport that I had queued to collect, remembering my mounting sense of excitement even as I sat on the train heading into the city, and for the first time since I had embarked upon my plan, I felt properly despondent.†   (source)
  • At any rate, in the early 1980s it happened that New York City had embarked on a nouvelle cuisine eating binge.†   (source)
  • Without a backward look, with my mother, brothers, and sister, I embarked on my first train ride.†   (source)
  • This is the great project of the Reich, the greatest project human beings have ever embarked upon.†   (source)
  • In their coded exchanges they had drawn close, but how artificial that closeness seemed now as they embarked on their small talk, their helpless catechism of polite query and response.†   (source)
  • This is the last note he'll send before they embark; he's giving it to a chaplain who came on board to see them off.†   (source)
  • Four new passengers were embarking for the trip up the river, a shabby, dour-looking man and wife and their scrawny little girl clutching a wooden toy, and a tall, angular young man with a pale narrow face and shoulder-length fair hair under a wide-brimmed black hat.†   (source)
  • Inside, Gogol empties his pockets and steps through a metal detector, as if he were at an airport, about to embark on a journey.†   (source)
  • But it is important to remember that the steady upward path upon which the Fords embarked began with a morally complicated act: William Ford looked upon my great-great-greatgrandmother with desire at a slave market in Alligator Pond and purchased her.†   (source)
  • Ford and Arthur found themselves in the embarkation area of the ship.†   (source)
  • They were not unwilling to let him be the last to leave the shuttle, climbing upward in the direction that had been down when they embarked.†   (source)
  • Haven't we mounted the scaffold, singing, as if embarking on a picnic, haven't we, boys?†   (source)
  • Michael got all embarrassed and claimed not to have had anything to do with it, but Mr. G didn't hear him since he had to hurry off and dissuade a group of Goths from embarking upon a demonstration over the unfair exclusion of a table dedicated to Satan worshipers by the event organizers.†   (source)
  • We believe that the Core is embarked on a truly incredible project which would allow them to predict… everything.†   (source)
  • But we never felt at home there, and somehow as we climbed into the dark skies, we felt we were leaving behind all that was god-awful in the northern reaches of the gulf and embarking on a brand-new mission, one that we understood.†   (source)
  • He took Nellie, eleven, and Howard, eight, and embarked with all three children on a strange and sad journey.†   (source)
  • She had plenty of hours to improve, there and then, so she embarked on a flurry of activity, sending four zings and thirty-two comments and eighty-eight smiles.†   (source)
  • I was literally embarked.†   (source)
  • Traditionally, by the time a Solomon is eighteen years of age, he is about to embark on his years of higher education in—†   (source)
  • It happened as he was reading what Jim Hawkins — a boy not much older than Meggie when he embarked on his terrifying adventure — saw in a dark cave: ….†   (source)
  • ] Just when things were settling down to a nice safe routine, Sadie and I embarked on our new mission.†   (source)
  • Of course, I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech.†   (source)
  • We had no clue that we were embarking on careers that would vanish within a decade.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza decided on the spot that he was the perfect companion for an adventure of such magnitude, and they embarked without further delay the following Sunday.†   (source)
  • "The mission on which you're about to embark is dangerous, but your bravery will be rewarded.†   (source)
  • In a few days Standard, the entire household of the Duke Leto will embark on a Spacing Guild liner for Arrakis.†   (source)
  • When I embarked on the project I was willing to work that long or longer.†   (source)
  • He had the time and the clarity about suffering to embark on the upward path of liberation, which would take him many lives to follow.†   (source)
  • Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence.†   (source)
  • I was just a child who thought she was embarking on a great adventure.†   (source)
  • Her niece Minou has noted more than once the irony of Dedes "new" profession, actually embarked upon a decade ago, after her divorce.†   (source)
  • I felt as if I were slipping into a holiday mood, embarked on another vicarious moral adventure, which looked as though it would be painless.†   (source)
  • Sue Snell had whipped a towel from her hair with the speed of a magician embarking on a wondrous feat and began to comb rapidly.†   (source)
  • At some point before he embarked upon his campaign against the Riders, he cast a spell that kills whoever uses his true name.†   (source)
  • Freedom had separated them; as free men, they had nothing in common, were opposites, who could never have formed a "team"-certainly not one capable of embarking on the skin-diving south-of-the-border adventures he and Dick had plotted.†   (source)
  • Before we had left America, Moody had embarked upon a spending spree.†   (source)
  • She had embarked on a voyage which might end years from now in some horrible villa, near a blue sea, with some unspeaking, unspeakably phallic, Turk or Spaniard or Jew or Greek or Arabian.†   (source)
  • We were embarking on a new and more dangerous path, a path of organized violence, the results of which we did not and could not know.†   (source)
  • Our embarkation completed, the convoy set out.†   (source)
  • As I drove out of Northampton headed west with my buddy Lisa, I felt as if I were finally embarking on my life.†   (source)
  • Since many of the SEALs from Adam's squadron were about to embark on yet another rotation into Afghanistan, they wanted to speak with me sooner rather than later.†   (source)
  • I took his hand and embarked on this special mission.†   (source)
  • He was taught advanced artillery skills and tactics, then embarked on his lifelong interest in medicine when he received training as a medic, before being posted to Germany with the Thirty-third Armored Division.†   (source)
  • Over the years, students had embarked on a variety of unusual projects.†   (source)
  • It was that feeling of engagement, she realized, that led her to embark on a relationship with Kevin in the first place.†   (source)
  • -it's only fair that we run through a greatest hits, if you will, of your past just as you embark on your present.†   (source)
  • I immerse myself in charcoal portraiture, not even stressing about the fact that it might be a while before I have time to sketch again, or that I have most definitely embarked on a major bender.†   (source)
  • And so, I embarked on my first extra-extramarital affair.†   (source)
  • The only memory I have of my father expressing physical affection for my mother was a brief kiss as we were dropping him off to catch a suburban limo to the airport, where he would embark on his annual academic trip to Spain.†   (source)
  • And with that Gloin embarked on a long account of the doings of the Dwarf-kingdom.†   (source)
  • Marcos sank into a deep depression that lasted two or three days, at the end of which he announced that he would never marry and that he was embarking on a trip around the world.†   (source)
  • He sat down behind his desk again and resolved to embark upon a mature and systematic evaluation of the entire military situation.†   (source)
  • If anything, it was stronger as we embarked on our rice-and-salt days.†   (source)
  • Our easy-to-follow instructions will aid you as you embark on the biggest money-making enterprise of your life.†   (source)
  • What is clear is that she embarked on her journey with faith that God approved of her mission and would provide for and protect her.†   (source)
  • The entire waterfront of Boston lay open to our observation, and we saw the embarkation of troops from the various wharves….†   (source)
  • As our saint explained, your wife could be leaving from several different points of embarkation.†   (source)
  • It was as if the tale, once embarked upon, compelled her.†   (source)
  • Mother's expression gave me the feeling that she was about to embark on an incredible life filled with happiness.†   (source)
  • It was as epic and immutable as the enterprise on which the girl had been forced to embark and, as the miles went by, Annie could only marvel at her stamina.†   (source)
  • Attolia and Eddis sat side by side on a hill overlooking the town and watched the Medes embark.†   (source)
  • We embarked on an offensive drive that was the biggest drive of the game for us.†   (source)
  • But now, listening to Leon sounding as if the school was embarking on the Crusades, for crying out loud, Archie was doubtful.†   (source)
  • It was a perfectly safe bet, we were young men embarking on great careers, full of eagerness and hope for the future.†   (source)
  • There is no need for you to move until we are all ready to embark.†   (source)
  • It has produced an extraordinary breed of Americans, and your son is about to embark on a journey that will make him equal to that breed.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she is standing center stage at the Gaiety, ready to embark on a path where nothing is certain and she can be whoever she wishes.†   (source)
  • I have just signed a treaty with our conqueror, witnessed the creation of a demonic embassy on our lands, and endeavored to embark on a new Age of Discovery.†   (source)
  • Her routes, stenciled in thick deep blue, embarked inward, toward an uncharted grave center.†   (source)
  • BEFORE IT came to the edge of the city, where it would pick up speed, the trolley wound through many small streets not as congenial as the one on the side of the hill where Alessandro Giuliani had embarked.†   (source)
  • The driver of the wagon rowed them out to a small fishing boat where John Bowley and his family embarked for Baltimore.†   (source)
  • If you came across any gap, all you had to do was start singing as much as you could remember—embark on the first line, confidently—and the missing part would arrive in your head just in the nick of time.†   (source)
  • Like the incident you have referred to, when I convinced Kemp that embarking upon a certain preferable course of action would actually help him to achieve his own aspirations.†   (source)
  • But in 1991, the great state of Tennessee was about to embark on a vast expansion of its prison system, and it was looking for victims.†   (source)
  • After a light lunch she embarked on Palestinian studies, followed by Islamic and jihadist studies.†   (source)
  • I've also embarked on a program to find sources of material that Glatun or other extraterrestrial groups may enjoy from the wonders of our beautiful planet.†   (source)
  • When Rear Admiral Hazzard retired he embarked upon what he liked to call "my second life."†   (source)
  • If he was embarking on a wild-goose chase, no-one else would ever know.†   (source)
  • I was not merely on the verge of getting laid; I was embarking on a voyage to Arcady, to Beulah 'Land, to the velvet black and starry regions beyond Pleiades.†   (source)
  • The following Tuesday I raced home from school, put the canvas bag over my shoulder, dumped the magazines in, and, tilting to the left to balance their weight on my right hip, embarked on the highway of journalism.†   (source)
  • We heard the acting platoon sergeant call out: "In succession, prepare to embark!"†   (source)
  • It was his only possible alternative to killing them, yes, assuming the course he'd embarked on.†   (source)
  • And when, after Leamas had arrived in our country and Fiedler embarked on his own interrogation, no further reports were forthcoming, do you suppose Comrade Mundt was then so obtuse that he did not know what Fiedler was hatching?†   (source)
  • But titling his address "Equal Justice Under Law," Taft cast aside his general reluctance to embark upon startlingly novel and dramatic approaches.†   (source)
  • But the grouping on the porch still held, that last we looked back, posed there along the rail, quiet and obscure and never-known as passengers on a ship already embarked to sea.†   (source)
  • As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing.   (source)
  • Beyond shame, I cradled my head in my arms and embarked on an orgy of selfpity.†   (source)
  • My one constant companion, Bast, was leaving me to embark on a horribly dangerous mission.†   (source)
  • Meaning until she finds a new crusade to embark on.†   (source)
  • But until today, their embarking on a journey to the ancient lands hadn't seemed real.†   (source)
  • They had visited briefly in early May, just before embarking on the ship.†   (source)
  • And Father was embarked in one of his own warships within twenty minutes.†   (source)
  • Whether he has embarked, or proposes to embark?†   (source)
  • As soon as it had passed, they were ordered to re-embark.†   (source)
  • So it is agreed immediately to embark everything.†   (source)
  • She decided to embark on an investigation of the nomadic mummies.†   (source)
  • We would dispute the state's central contention that we had embarked on guerrilla warfare.†   (source)
  • Washington, meanwhile, had ridden to the ferry landing to take personal charge of the embarkation.†   (source)
  • The pangs and the anguish have not been so great as when you and I embarked for France in 1778.†   (source)
  • Why did you embark upon an academic career?†   (source)
  • Whether he has embarked, or proposes to embark?†   (source)
  • Or at great risk ships embarked in the teeth of foul weather.†   (source)
  • We are about to embark on a journey of knowledge.†   (source)
  • "Friends," said Caspian, "we have now fulfilled the quest on which you embarked.†   (source)
  • They had just embarked upon the immensely difficult topic of human transfiguration; working in front of mirrors , they were suposed to be changing the color of their own eyebrows.†   (source)
  • Then, in 1921, the British embarked on their first expedition to Everest, and their decision to engage Sherpas as helpers sparked a transformation of Sherpa culture.†   (source)
  • He hesitated for a moment, wondering how best to embark on what he wanted to say; as he marshaled his thoughts, Celestina Warbeck began a ballad called "You Charmed the Heart Right Out of Me."†   (source)
  • After all, they were embarking on their most passionate project to date, one they must not fail at like the others.†   (source)
  • She may have been about to speak, she may have been about to embark upon a long confession in which she would find her feelings as she spoke them and lead herself out of her numbness toward something that resembled both terror and joy.†   (source)
  • I happen to be embarking on a motoring trip during the course of which I hope to see many splendid views.†   (source)
  • But instead of their forming a permanent union, of the kind his mother dreamed about, both used it to embark on a profligate way of life.†   (source)
  • Then he took out his stack of index cards and embarked on the most delicate and satisfying task of all: compiling his guest list.†   (source)
  • Unlike the men they knew back in Minneapolis or Des Moines or Sioux Falls, Holmes was warm and charming and talkative and touched them with a familiarity that, while perhaps offensive back home, somehow seemed all right in this new world of Chicago—just another aspect of the great adventure on which these women had embarked.†   (source)
  • The fast-track acclimatization schedule followed by Hall and most other modern Everesters is remarkably efficient: it allows climbers to embark for the summit after spending a relatively brief four-week period above 17,000 feet-including just a single overnight acclimatization excursion to 24,000 feet.†   (source)
  • 'bathing during the hour of the rooster,' acquiring new clothing,' embarking on new enterprises,' and listen to this one, 'changing residences.'†   (source)
  • Grunthos is reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled My Favorite Bathtime Gurgles when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leaped straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.†   (source)
  • Embarking on a picnic, sir.†   (source)
  • And like McCandless, upon embarking on his terminal odyssey, Ruess adopted a new name or, rather, a series of new names.†   (source)
  • She felt immense relief at the thought of spending eight days traveling upriver and five on the return, with no more than the bare necessities: half a dozen cotton dresses, her toiletries, a pair of shoes for embarking and disembarking, her house slippers for the journey, and nothing else: her lifetime dream.†   (source)
  • As he clipped his safety tether onto the fixed rope he tossed his ice ax down, then left it lying on the rocks as he embarked on the first rappel.†   (source)
  • I made my exit as discreetly as possible just as his lordship, still on his feet, was embarking on a further point.†   (source)
  • The truth is that Florentino Ariza was sure she had not returned, until the telegraph operator in Riohacha confirmed that they had embarked on Friday aboard the very same schooner that did not arrive the day before because of contrary winds, so that during the weekend he watched for any sign of life in her house, and at dusk on Monday he saw through the windows a light that moved through the house and was extinguished, a little after nine, in the bedroom with the balcony.†   (source)
  • As a sixteen-year-old he embarked on his first long solo trip, spending the summer of 1930 hitchhiking and trekking through Yosemite and Big Sur, ultimately winding up in Carmel.†   (source)
  • At first light on Thursday, April 18, by which time the sky had cleared, we gathered our belongings and embarked for Camp Two, four miles and 1,700 vertical feet above.†   (source)
  • In March 1978, Waterman embarked on his most astonishing expedition, a solo ascent of Mt. Hunter's southeast spur, an unclimbed route that had previously defeated three teams of elite mountaineers.†   (source)
  • Prior to 1990, climbers commonly spent considerably more time at Camp Two or higher-including at least one acclimatization sortie to 26,000 feet-before embarking for the top.†   (source)
  • But in Talkeetna, a village south of Denali that is the point of embarkation for most mountaineering expeditions into the Alaska Range, the cabin he was staying in caught fire and burned to rubble, incinerating both his equipment and the voluminous accumulation of notes, poetry, and personal journals that he regarded as his life's work.†   (source)
  • But those first nine expeditions embarked for Tibet from Darjeeling, where many Sherpas had emigrated, and where they had developed a reputation among the resident colonialists for being hardworking, affable, and intelligent.†   (source)
  • Fischer, by this time, had embarked for Camp Two to bring down Tim Madsen, who had exhausted himself while hauling Ngawang down the Western Cum and had subsequently come down with a mild case of HAPE himself.†   (source)
  • In the mid-1990s, he points out, the city of Baltimore embarked on a highly publicized policy of dynamiting the old 1960s-style public housing high-rises in East and West Baltimore.†   (source)
  • Before leaving the protection of the dwarves in Farthen Dur and Tronjheim, she had tried to anticipate every challenge the Varden might face once they embarked on the offensive.†   (source)
  • As Eragon mounted Saphira, he felt as if he were about to embark on a long journey and that he should say farewell to those who remained behind.†   (source)
  • He made contact with the young people in the town, who lacked political knowledge, and he embarked on a stealthy campaign of instigation.†   (source)
  • What, if anything, does John's hesitation to include me in his thoughts tell me about the upcoming marriage, this voyage on which I'm about to embark?†   (source)
  • He recalled the trip they'd made through Europe six years after the war, he and Eleanor, newly wed, a girl of modest background, taking a long honeymoon by the cheapest means possible, slow trains and old hotels squeezed of every convenience, but they were also embarked on a mission important to Marvin's family.†   (source)
  • Still, Percy couldn't imagine what kind of courage it had taken for Frank to embark on a quest, knowing that one small flame could snuff out his life.†   (source)
  • Whereas Robert Stewart Howard was wealthy, his son evidently refused to base his life on its advantages, embarking on his westward journey with virtually no money to his name.†   (source)
  • He was embarking under bad signs.†   (source)
  • He has embarked on a path of destruction that he assumed would cow us into submission, yet which, in reality, has actually strengthened the resolve of many of our people to fight to the last.†   (source)
  • Max embarked immediately upon the grim calculus that had become second nature: His spear offered more range; Myrmidon had better armor, but the gladiator's right side was vulnerable to a counterattack; his foe tended to rock forward, indicating an aggressive nature….†   (source)
  • They embarked on an aggressive grassroots campaign to meet the buyers for youth-oriented shoe stores.†   (source)
  • The music made Eragon's scalp tingle and prickle and his blood flow faster, as if he were about to embark upon a hunt.†   (source)
  • , By the time Leo had explained the eidolons, the problem with the Romans, and all the troubles the Argo II had encountered crossing the United States and embarking from Charleston, Aphros had knitted a complete baby bonnet.†   (source)
  • And the mood on the city's dim streets was festive, as so many men prepared to embark on the trip that was meant to be the high point of their earthly existence.†   (source)
  • The actions of the DEVGRU squadrons, targeting the networks of suicide bombers and IEDs in late 2007 and early 2008, nullified the Hollywood perception that tier one teams are reserved for the occasional high-level mission, training for weeks at a site built to replicate their target before embarking upon that mission.†   (source)
  • She would wave vigorously to the freighters coming to Charleston to unload their cargo; she would ignore the ships embarking from the city as though she could not understand why anyone or anything would want to leave a place so perfect and desirable.†   (source)
  • But many others were still visible, had turned into lushes or junkies or had embarked on a nerve-rattling pursuit of the perfect psychiatrist; were vindictively married and progenitive and fat; were dreaming the same dreams they had dreamed ten years before, clothed these in the same arguments, quoted the same masters; and dispensed, as they hideously imagined, the same charm they had possessed before their teeth began to fail and their hair began to fall.†   (source)
  • He was here, and embarked on the present errand, not because he wished to be but because fate had arranged the matter; he could prove it-though he had no intention of doing so, at least within Dick's hearing, for the proof would involve his confessing the true and secret motive behind his return to Kansas, a piece of parole violation he had decided upon for a reason quite unrelated to Dick's "score" or Dick's summoning letter.†   (source)
  • The admission letter from the Beijing Dance Academy said that all fifteen students chosen from Shandong Province are required to meet at a dormitory where we will spend the next eighteen hours before we embark on our train journey to Beijing.†   (source)
  • He then embarked, in a mixture of English and Arabic, on a rambling homily about the armies of Rome and a Syrian village called Dabiq.†   (source)
  • I embarked on endless sit-ups and exercises everywhere I could find a flat surface and a few minutes to spare.†   (source)
  • She packed up a simple navy pinstripe suit, hat, and sandals and embarked on her journey to California.†   (source)
  • She has the necessary skills-she is no charlatan-but summoning spirits is exceedingly dangerous, and one does not embark upon it lightly.†   (source)
  • It was not easy to get mummies onto the market, let alone through customs, which meant that there were times when they remained in the house for several weeks, awaiting their turn to embark on the long trip abroad.†   (source)
  • Tara was a graduate student at the time, finishing a doctorate at the California School of Professional Psychology, before embarking on her planned career as a clinical psychologist.†   (source)
  • Yusuf Cachalia and Dr. Naicker pleaded with us not to embark on this course, arguing that the state would slaughter the whole liberation movement.†   (source)
  • Although Teacher Xiao's own turning ability was poor, he was determined to help his students perfect their turns, so he embarked on months of turning classes.†   (source)
  • Then Nasuada bade her farewell and retreated from the stone slab, whereupon Blodhgarm and the other elves rushed to Saphira's side and strapped her uncomfortable-leather-patch-Eragon-seat-saddle onto her and filled the saddlebags with the food and equipment she would normally carry if embarking upon a trip with Eragon.†   (source)
  • We carried our tools down the cypresslined path, found the del Valle family tomb, and embarked on the lugubrious task of opening it.†   (source)
  • If we embark on the course Mandela is suggesting, we will be exposing innocent people to massacres by the enemy.†   (source)
  • On the television, a strident, cocksure voice told an interviewer, "We are embarked on the second American Revolution and you have my solemn vow that with a new Republican majority in Congress, American life is about to be profoundly different.†   (source)
  • First we're sailing for the naval base at Brindisi, where a colonel will embark and tell us what we're going to do.†   (source)
  • But as disturbed as I was by these casualties, I knew that such accidents were the inevitable consequence of the decision to embark on a military struggle.†   (source)
  • I had but six or seven hours allowed to prepare for this measure, being obliged to embark the same day," wrote the Reverend Henry Caner.†   (source)
  • She had hoped to embark with friends.†   (source)
  • They could make and break camp, line up for an attack, receive an assault, embark upon a ship, scramble down the nets, all with astonishing speed and unspoken coordination.†   (source)
  • He enthusiastically embarked on the reconstruction and improvement of Tres Marias, but after that he lost all interest in any other endeavor because he noticed that, thanks to the new economic system, there was no need to work hard and produce, inasmuch as money makes money and his bank accounts grew fatter every day without the slightest effort on his part.†   (source)
  • Though nearly morning, a large part of the army still waited to embark, and without the curtain of night to conceal them, their escape was doomed.†   (source)
  • We learned that they had embarked on a hunger strike to protest their isolation, and we immediately decided to join in.†   (source)
  • Adams, the late envoy from the American states, set off for Portsmouth on Sunday last, to embark for his return," read a small item in the Whitehall Evening Post.†   (source)
  • When they embarked they were in high spirits, hauling caissons over the sides two at a time with hoists that usually lifted terrified horses and cows.†   (source)
  • On October 20, writing to Pickering to ask for suggestions on the content of his forthcoming message to Congress, Adams made it plain that he was thinking of sending a new minister to France "who may be ready to embark …. as soon as …. the President shall receive from the Directory satisfactory assurance that he shall be received and entitled toall the prerogatives and privileges of the general laws of nations."†   (source)
  • We now had no alternative but to resort to civil disobedience, and we embarked on preparations for mass action in earnest.†   (source)
  • His hands moved across the covers in almost automatic seeking, the fingers contracting and relaxing, contracting and relaxing, as if they had already embarked on an independent journey.†   (source)
  • On March is, Newell and the other selectmen were summoned to the Province House and told the army would embark that day and that it would be wise for all remaining citizens to stay in their houses.†   (source)
  • The retreat was conducted in the greatest secrecy, and by six o'clock in the morning we had everything embarked.†   (source)
  • These were his sentiments, he declared, and he listed the names of the officers he had spoken to, hoping they could persuade Howe to change his mind and embark from Boston as quickly as possible.†   (source)
  • In response to this new and much more powerful threat from the state, the ANC embarked on an unaccustomed and historic path.†   (source)
  • He stated that the defense would show that Umkhonto had not in fact adopted Operation Mayibuye, and that MK had not embarked on preparations for guerrilla warfare.†   (source)
  • He added, "The ardor of the troops encouraged me in this hazardous enterprise," and this could be the explanation, though an American who saw the British troops waiting on the wharf to embark, commented that "they looked in general pale and dejected, and said to one another it would be another Bunker Hill or worse."†   (source)
  • Now he was embarking on a 3,000-mile voyage on the North Atlantic in its most treacherous season, the risks far greater than he knew.†   (source)
  • Through a plastic-wrapped note hidden in our food drums, we learned in July of 1966 that the men in the general section had embarked on a hunger strike to protest poor conditions.†   (source)
  • Your father's zeal for books will be one of the last desires which will quit him," Abigail observed to John Quincy in the spring of 1816, as Adams eagerly embarked on a sixteen-volume French history.†   (source)
  • "After having marched off the prisoners and secured the cannon, stores, etc.," wrote Knox, "we returned to the place nine miles distant, where we had embarked."†   (source)
  • In his address, Yutar argued that from the time the ANC had been driven underground, the organization had embarked on a policy of violence designed to lead from sabotage through guerrilla warfare to an armed invasion of the country.†   (source)
  • I love to receive letters very much better than I love to write them," replied Johnny, who reported proudly that he was embarked on the third volume of Tobias Smollett's History of England.†   (source)
  • By renouncing their allegiance to the King, the delegates at Philadelphia had committed treason and embarked on a course from which there could be no turning back.†   (source)
  • According to one account, General Alexander McDougall, who was in charge of the embarkation, sent Washington a message saying that with conditions as they were, there could be no retreat that night.†   (source)
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