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  • The dead began to disembark.†   (source)
  • From Schulpforta they ride a train through Leipzig and disembark at a switching station west of Lodz.†   (source)
  • Anyway, the boy had become happy in his work, and thought all the time about the day when he would disembark at Tarifa as a winner.†   (source)
  • By the time she returned from Liverpool, he was disembarking at Cherbourg and the dullest winter of his life lay before him.†   (source)
  • When we disembark, you will stand in a straight line.†   (source)
  • With dismay, Kit saw the captain's wife among the passengers preparing to disembark.†   (source)
  • As the train slows to a halt she stands, ready to disembark.†   (source)
  • The waterfront was awash in red now as boatloads of soldiers disembarked.†   (source)
  • I look at the blanked-out faces of the other passengers — hoisting their briefcases, their backpacks, shuffling to disembark —and I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality.†   (source)
  • After all, the three children had just disembarked from the Fickle Ferry, which had driven them across Lake Lachrymose to live with their Aunt Josephine, and in most cases such a situation would lead to thrillingly good times.†   (source)
  • After a couple of days' travel, we disembark inside one of the mountain tunnels leading to the Capitol, and make the rest of the six-hour trek on foot, taking care to step only on a glowing green paint line that marks safe passage to the air above.†   (source)
  • Which is why I have asked for all of you to disembark.†   (source)
  • It was plainly imperative we all got damn good at this, since SEALs use such nets to board and disembark submarines and ships and to get in and out of inflatable boats.†   (source)
  • They landed and disembarked.†   (source)
  • Passengers disembarked and watched the Tribune window, waiting for the next announcement.†   (source)
  • Keane and Rossiter disembarked at Memphis to look for their commanders.†   (source)
  • By the time the narrator reached this point in his account, many people were crowded around, not only people who'd just emerged from the tunnel but also those who'd been among the first to disembark.†   (source)
  • But as I recall, I did not actually disembark again until I was quite near Salisbury.†   (source)
  • I wait for the disembarking passengers to disappear down the steps and then I sit on the only covered bench on the platform.†   (source)
  • My parents stand up, ready to disembark.†   (source)
  • He continued to wait, not taking his eyes off the launch that carried ashore the few passengers who had decided to disembark despite the storm.†   (source)
  • Let me disembark with my men.†   (source)
  • The sun was bright on their faces, and on the faces of the disembarking passengers; they seemed, as they turned and disappeared, to be stepping into a new and healing light.†   (source)
  • When the train finally chugs to a stop and sighs, Kinko and Queenie disembark with the usual clap-clap and flying leap.†   (source)
  • The white YMCA bus arrived on time, and to Luma's relief, a full roster of players disembarked and jogged onto the field.†   (source)
  • Return to the ship and have everyone disembark; the Varden are sending us food and shelter.†   (source)
  • Finally, he disembarked, walking two blocks to the corner of XXI and Tunti.†   (source)
  • Whoever had flown the ship had already disembarked, because Mark could faintly hear voices over the noises, then the sound of the round door being opened.†   (source)
  • As soon as the colt had disembarked in California, Smith had sent him to the Burlingame Polo Grounds near the Howards' house.†   (source)
  • Disembarking from the plane, I made my way to the baggage terminal, noticing the groups of people gathered around television screens that were tuned to CNN.†   (source)
  • Why didn't he allow these refugees to disembark?†   (source)
  • These skills would coalesce around the concept of amphibious warfare: troops disembarking from large ships, speeding toward enemy beaches under heavy fire, and charging ahead to enemy-held islands.†   (source)
  • When the ship finally arrived in the port of Valparaaso and Litvinoff shakily disembarked ("sea legs," he told himself, even years later, when the shakiness sometimes returned without explanation), there were other things to occupy him.†   (source)
  • John, Jack, Charles, and Bert disembarked, with Jack taking the lead ahead of his more cautious and reluctant companions.†   (source)
  • It was hard to tell, since he was talking to his dad again as he pulled up in front of Perkins Day, and Gervais and I extracted ourselves to disembark.†   (source)
  • Thomas Stone sought out Sister Mary Joseph Praise before disembarking.†   (source)
  • As for Bethany… He'd silently cried his way through a numb existence these last six days, walking to the cafeteria, sitting through four separate debriefings, lying in bed late at night, boarding the airplane, staring out the window as the sea passed far below, disembarking the AC-130 with his seabag over his shoulder, talking to the psychiatrist at Bethesda Naval Hospital, and while flying home to Austin, where he'd had the courtesy to rent a hotel room.†   (source)
  • A week later I was disembarking at what they used to call Duvalier Airport, searching the sky for smoke, and the ground for bodies, again.†   (source)
  • Following EMS procedure when disembarking ambulatory patients, only then did the exit door open and the metal steps slap down to the ground.†   (source)
  • The ship's captain tried to dissuade me from disembarking, talking of Barbary pirates and uncouth Spanish exiles.†   (source)
  • They would not risk a stop on the shore until it was time to disembark.†   (source)
  • Some days there were as many as a hundred, when the soldiers were disembarking.†   (source)
  • A couple of times he disembarked and found himself surrounded by cars and people rushing by in all directions and by buildings so tall he had to search for the sky, and, feeling even more lost up there than on the trains, he went back underground and used up yet another of the expensive tokens.†   (source)
  • There wasn't a line of cabs waiting outside to compete for the handful of people who'd disembarked.†   (source)
  • Disembark from that ship immediately!†   (source)
  • We disembark in a small town, and picnic baskets in tow, we amble along in the happy company of villagers, farmers, servants on holiday, excitable children, and men in search of work, coming at last to a large green, where the fair has been established.†   (source)
  • Caissons and crates of supplies were lifted over the side with winches and booms while the River Guard disembarked, carrying rifles and full packs, on ropes.†   (source)
  • The sailors that had disembarked soon returned to the docks with the welcomed news that Easthaven had not yet been touched by the darkness.†   (source)
  • He did make it but we got hit on the ground—and, Mannie, that's one thing that pushed me into politics, that ship sat four hours before they let us disembark.†   (source)
  • At the hotel, they disembarked, more or less wordlessly, and Alan was back in his room, alone, by seven.†   (source)
  • Surveillance photographs showed him disembarking at the Gare du Nord in late morning and boarding a Metro a few minutes later, bound for the northern suburbs of Paris.†   (source)
  • It makes no sense to disembark and make the miserable portage in wagons and carriages, when it can all be carried by water.†   (source)
  • On the second day of the crossing, he ordered Eddie and Stink to see about getting haircuts; that same evening he sat down with Doc Peret for a conference about possible routes north after disembarking at Piraeus.†   (source)
  • -and disembark-and present themselves before the English king (He wheels round.†   (source)
  • We disembark and enter the dark house.†   (source)
  • I disembarked into a cool, partly overcast afternoon, found transportation almost immediately, and set out for Dave's office address.†   (source)
  • We disembarked at Union Station, and I walked her through its spacious grandeur and lectured her on the great age of the railroads and the land swindles of Reconstruction on which they were built.†   (source)
  • "I than you, my benefactor," spoke Siddhartha, disembarking on the other side of the river.†   (source)
  • The cars and trucks, then the foot passengers and the alligator, waddling like a child to school, all disembarked and wound up the weed-sprung levee.†   (source)
  • At last the boat stopped at a small town, and Legree, with his party, disembarked.   (source)
  • The usual confusion and noise filled the corridors as the students began to disembark.†   (source)
  • From the railing of the salon, Florentino Ariza watched them disembark.†   (source)
  • We disembarked and wandered back to our quarters.†   (source)
  • They left their refuge as soon as the passengers disembarked.†   (source)
  • Once they reached the Tiber, they would disembark.†   (source)
  • Last stop," a half hour later, Milkman looked out again and this time he saw her disembark.†   (source)
  • As Percy's friends disembarked from the ship, the crowd of ghosts shimmered and disappeared.†   (source)
  • If it hadn't been for my friends, I'm not sure I would've had the courage to disembark.†   (source)
  • They would learn how to disembark, take the beach, turn left, and cut off the mountain.†   (source)
  • The Fugees were conspicuous as they disembarked.†   (source)
  • Only then were the passengers allowed to disembark.†   (source)
  • There will be a five- to seven-minute delay before disembarkation.†   (source)
  • "Disembark" hardly suggests the lethal difficulty of the first component in this sequence.†   (source)
  • The boys disembarked at Grand Central Station to a huge applauding reception committee.†   (source)
  • The last had to be set up first, as the open column in which we disembarked would not do it.†   (source)
  • La Zlngara managed to be the first from turistica to disembark.†   (source)
  • Nico convinced them to disembark.†   (source)
  • My father did not reply, but continued to stand there silently, neither demanding disembarkation nor offering any clue as to his desires or intentions.†   (source)
  • When he disembarked in Vyborg, he tore out the maps and left the guide with the other items on a counter in the station's washroom.†   (source)
  • Once the men have all disembarked, the SS wave them through, telling them to go and find themselves a place to sleep.†   (source)
  • The train judders off, and in seconds we're pulling into Whitney station and people start jostling one another for position, folding newspapers and packing away tablets and e-readers as they prepare to disembark.†   (source)
  • The mayor is standing on the open-air platform, and as soon as we disembark we are herded in a ragtag line to a Grange Hall a block from the station.†   (source)
  • Finally Werner and Frederick disembark at a dim charcoal-colored station and climb a long flight of stairs, each step painted with the same exclamation—Berlin smokes Junos!†   (source)
  • He would be disembarking in a few blocks anyway—to get some cucumbers and potatoes at the peasant market in the square.†   (source)
  • Then we all had to disembark, one by one, clambering onto the rocks, with the poor old bowline man hanging on for his life, jammed between the rocks with the boat still lashed to his torso.†   (source)
  • Given the tightness of security at the railway crossing into Finland, it is presumed that Rostov disembarked in Vyborg in order to cross the border on foot.†   (source)
  • And there we both disembarked.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza fell into instantaneous sleep in the main salon, where most of the passengers without cabins were sleeping as if it were midnight, and close to the spot where he had seen her disembark, he dreamed of Rosalba.†   (source)
  • All that Florentino Ariza could learn about Lorenzo Daza was that he had come from San Juan de la Cienaga with his only daughter and his unmarried sister soon after the cholera epidemic, and those who saw him disembark had no doubt that he had come to stay since he brought everything necessary for a well-furnished house.†   (source)
  • How many mornings dressed in his robe with his coffee in hand had he observed the new arrivals from St. Petersburg disembarking from their cabs, worn and weary from the overnight train?†   (source)
  • SEALs, Rangers, and Green Berets, filed forward and walked slowly into the aircraft, paused, saluted with the greatest solemnity, and then disembarked.†   (source)
  • This was the disembarkation point for those passengers who would continue their journey into Antioquia, one of the provinces most affected by the new civil war.†   (source)
  • When she disembarked with her goddaughter in San Juan de la Cienaga, she called on the great reserves of her character and recognized the town despite all the evidence to the contrary.†   (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)
  • Roughly two-thirds of the Varden had disembarked and were gathering in orderly ranks along the edge of the water.†   (source)
  • …when the captain turns off the seat belt sign and you get your belongings from the overhead and stand in the aisle waiting for the hatch to open and the crowd to shuffle forward, and there are more crowds when you exit the gate, people disembarking and others waiting for them and greater crowds in the baggage areas and the concourse, the crossover roars of echoing voices and flight announcements and revving engines and crowds moving through it all, people with their separate and…†   (source)
  • Carrying his canvas bag, his gait showing the weariness of jet lag, Jason fell in line with the disembarked passengers heading into the hotel, his eyes on the grey-haired man ahead.†   (source)
  • They floated down the river, disembarked half a day's ride from the city, and took Stannis in the rear."†   (source)
  • "So this Paralon," Charles said as they began to disembark, "is the largest military power in the Archipelago?"†   (source)
  • The elves docked the Talita long enough for everyone to disembark, save Cuaroc, Blodhgarm, and two other elves who stayed to guard the Eldunari.†   (source)
  • After the cattle boat tied up next: to a slender pier on the sea side of the naval base, not far from the red flags, the River Guard disembarked and marched up a rocky hill to an open shed where hammocks were slung from the beams.†   (source)
  • The officials disembarked; the jet circled in place and began charging back over the runway while the tower instructed the pilot where he would refuel.†   (source)
  • THE MOMENT she stepped off the Calangute onto the soil of Yemen, Sister Mary Joseph Praise wished she'd never disembarked.†   (source)
  • The companions disembarked so they could begin to explore the island, and they quickly determined that it was a singularly unremarkable place.†   (source)
  • The Under 15s began to disembark.†   (source)
  • The Elders of the Elves disembarked through a hatch that appeared just above the waterline and came over to greet the companions.†   (source)
  • But as they disembarked and began walking toward the field, Anderson saw their faces and got excited.†   (source)
  • The little old lady who had invited herself to the Serto table on Gala Night was all ready to disembark.†   (source)
  • From the upper casement, my lookout on the sea, I saw them disembark and find the path; I heard that whole drove of mine break loose on the beautiful strangers.†   (source)
  • But in his consideration he did not even knock down Poldy's stack of suitcases and cardboard boxes, neat as a little house in the thick of the disembarkation.†   (source)
  • Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, fell in love with the handsome Theseus the moment she saw him disembark from the boat that had brought the pitiful group of Athenian youths and maidens for the Minotaur.†   (source)
  • Near us, as we disembarked, a second policeman was sitting on the pavement, dazed, with his head in his hands and blood running through his fingers; two or three sympathizers were standing over him; on the other side of the hawser was a hostile knot of young dockers.†   (source)
  • At the; end of the third day, some miles up the river, they drew in to the left or western bank and disembarked.†   (source)
  • One of the directors, Mr Pearson, went down to Southampton to meet the boat, but owing to the fog, the train down was very much delayed, and by the time he arrived, Wu Ling had disembarked and left by special train for London.†   (source)
  • They were held back by the slow line of disembarking passengers.†   (source)
  • He disembarked at Forty-third Street and strolled to the Biltmore bar.†   (source)
  • At the cabin there was a clamor of disembarkation.†   (source)
  • They were all attentive to Dick as he disembarked at the dock.†   (source)
  • The boat shot out of the harbor like a bird and the next morning Franz disembarked at Porto-Ferrajo.†   (source)
  • At last the boat stopped at a small town, and Legree, with his party, disembarked.†   (source)
  • She may be waiting for it yet; on the other hand she may already have disembarked in England.†   (source)
  • The rock is still shown on which the pilgrims disembarked.†   (source)
  • ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING.†   (source)
  • Part of the distance they rode in the car, and after disembarking, passed the Pontellier mansion, which looked broken and half torn asunder.†   (source)
  • When he returned to the bar Paul had arrived—in his custom-built motor, from which he had disembarked correctly at the Boulevard des Capucines.†   (source)
  • He rather hoped that he was being noticed as, in his newly pressed clothes, with the adoring porter carrying his suit-case, he disembarked at Monarch.†   (source)
  • Tom disembarked, and he and his gallant procession crossed Cheapside and made a short march through the Old Jewry and Basinghall Street to the Guildhall.†   (source)
  • It had been intentionally left as much as possible out of sight and was tied to one of the stakes of a fence that came, just there, down to the brink and that had been an assistance to disembarking.†   (source)
  • Her voice, her laugh, her dress (something floating, white, crimson), her spirit, her adventurousness; she made them all disembark and explore the island; she startled a hen; she laughed; she sang.†   (source)
  • The boats and baggage were carried over this "portage," and the troops proceeded to the other extremity of the lake, where they disembarked and encamped.†   (source)
  • "Ah! good heavens!" said an old woman among the spectators, "and that besides our having had a considerable pestilence last year, and that they say that the English are going to disembark in a company at Harfleur."†   (source)
  • She saw him, however, the day after she landed; and, in the meantime, he formed a natural subject of conversation between our heroine and her Aunt Lavinia, with whom, the night she disembarked, the girl was closeted for a long time before either lady retired to rest.†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit and his matchless castle were disembarked among the dirty white houses and dirtier felons of Civita Vecchia, and thence scrambled on to Rome as they could, through the filth that festered on the way.†   (source)
  • We disembarked, and thinking it best to abide by the Canadian's instincts, we followed Ned Land, whose long legs threatened to outpace us.†   (source)
  • As neither labored hard at the paddle, the ark had already arrived and the soldiers had disembarked before the canoe of the two loiterers reached the point.†   (source)
  • He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous of allowing to escape.†   (source)
  • She brought an unusual number of passengers, some of whom remained on deck to scan the picturesque panorama of the town, while the greater part disembarked in the boats, and landed on the quay.†   (source)
  • " 'I swear, captain,' replied I. " 'Well, as after my death the command devolves on you as mate, assume the command, and bear up for the Island of Elba, disembark at Porto-Ferrajo, ask for the grand-marshal, give him this letter—perhaps they will give you another letter, and charge you with a commission.†   (source)
  • But I have the skiff ready, and it will take us to the exact spot where we'll disembark, which will save us a pretty long trek.†   (source)
  • To disembark from the Henrietta, jump into a hack, hurry to the St. Nicholas, and return with Aouda, Passepartout, and even the inseparable Fix was the work of a brief time, and was performed by Mr. Fogg with the coolness which never abandoned him.†   (source)
  • An erroneous notion is generally entertained that the deserts of America are peopled by European emigrants, who annually disembark upon the coasts of the New World, whilst the American population increases and multiplies upon the soil which its forefathers tilled.†   (source)
  • Phileas Fogg noted this gain in his journal, and then, accompanied by Aouda, who betrayed a desire for a walk on shore, disembarked.†   (source)
  • The sailors did not wait for a second invitation; four strokes of the oar brought them to land; Gaetano sprang to shore, exchanged a few words with the sentinel, then his comrades disembarked, and lastly came Franz.†   (source)
  • The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition.†   (source)
  • Phileas Fogg at last disembarked on the Liverpool quay, at twenty minutes before twelve, 21st December.†   (source)
  • Not a word was spoken, every one seemed occupied, Franz with his disembarkment, the sailors with their sails, the smugglers with their goat; but in the midst of all this carelessness it was evident that they mutually observed each other.†   (source)
  • The Rangoon had a large quota of passengers, many of whom disembarked at Singapore, among them a number of Indians, Ceylonese, Chinamen, Malays, and Portuguese, mostly second-class travellers.†   (source)
  • Chapter XXV IN WHICH A SLIGHT GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN FRANCISCO It was seven in the morning when Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout set foot upon the American continent, if this name can be given to the floating quay upon which they disembarked.†   (source)
  • It was really worth considering why this certainly very amiable and complacent person, whom he had first met at Suez, had then encountered on board the Mongolia, who disembarked at Bombay, which he announced as his destination, and now turned up so unexpectedly on the Rangoon, was following Mr. Fogg's tracks step by step.†   (source)
  • Bow-stones were dropped, and they tied up astern, and all stepped out into the wash and ebb, then disembarked their cattle for the Archer, and Khryseis, from the deepsea ship.†   (source)
  • We sailed down half the length of the loch before disembarking for a late lunch.†   (source)
  • No one, I tell you, no one
    who comes to my house will languish long here,
    heartsick for convoy home.
    Come, my people!
    Haul a black ship down to the bright sea,
    rigged for her maiden voyage—
    enlist a crew of fifty-two young sailors,
    the best in town, who've proved their strength before.
    Let all hands lash their oars to the thwarts then disembark,
    come to my house and fall in for a banquet, quickly.
    I'll lay on a princely feast for all.†   (source)
  • …at the sea's edge.
    First they hauled the craft into deeper water,
    stepped the mast amidships, canvas brailed,
    made oars fast in the leather oarlock straps
    while zealous aides-in-arms brought weapons on.
    They moored her well out in the channel, disembarked
    and took their meal on shore, waiting for dusk to fall.
    But there in her upper rooms she lay, Penelope
    lost in thought, fasting, shunning food and drink,
    brooding now …. would her fine son escape his death
    or go down at her…†   (source)
  • Then on the tenth
    our squadron reached the land of the Lotus-eaters,
    people who eat the lotus, mellow fruit and flower.
    We disembarked on the coast, drew water there
    and crewmen snatched a meal by the swift ships.
    Once we'd had our fill of food and drink I sent
    a detail ahead, two picked men and a third, a runner,
    to scout out who might live there—men like us perhaps,
    who live on bread?†   (source)
  • …with the food immortal Circe gave us.'
    They quickly swore the oath that I required
    and once they had vowed they'd never harm the herds,
    they moored our sturdy ship in the deep narrow harbor,
    close to a fresh spring, and all hands disembarked
    and adeptly set about the evening meal.
    Once they'd put aside desire for food and drink,
    they recalled our dear companions, wept for the men
    that Scylla plucked from the hollow ship and ate alive,
    and a welcome sleep came on them in…†   (source)
  • …sea.
    And once they reached the ship at the surf's edge,
    first they hauled the craft into deeper water,
    stepped the mast amidships, canvas brailed,
    they made oars fast in the leather oarlock straps,
    moored her riding high on the swell, then disembarked
    and made their way to wise Alcinous' high-roofed halls.
    There colonnades and courts and rooms were overflowing
    with crowds, a mounting host of people young and old.
    The king slaughtered a dozen sheep to feed his guests,
    eight…†   (source)
  • …drown at once or
    grit my teeth and bear it, stay among the living?
    I bore it all, held firm, hiding my face,
    clinging tight to the decks
    while heavy squalls blasted our squadron back
    again to Aeolus' island, shipmates groaning hard.
    We disembarked on the coast, drew water there
    and crewmen snatched a meal by the swift ships.
    Once we'd had our fill of food and drink
    I took a shipmate along with me, a herald too,
    and approached King Aeolus' famous halls and here
    we found him…†   (source)
  • …work of man or beast from there;
    all I spied was a plume of smoke, drifting off the land.
    So I sent some crew ahead to learn who lived there—
    men like us perhaps, who live on bread?
    Two good mates I chose and a third to run the news.
    They disembarked and set out on a beaten trail
    the wagons used for hauling timber down to town
    from the mountain heights above ….
    and before the walls they met a girl, drawing water,
    Antiphates' strapping daughter—king of the Laestrygonians.
    …†   (source)
  • …of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts, The sentiment of the huge timbers of old-fashion'd houses and barns, The remember'd print or narrative, the voyage at a venture of men, families, goods, The disembarkation, the founding of a new city, The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, the outset anywhere, The settlements of the Arkansas, Colorado, Ottawa, Willamette, The slow progress, the scant fare, the axe, rifle,…†   (source)
  • —I pry'thee, good Iago, Go to the bay and disembark my coffers: Bring thou the master to the citadel; He is a good one, and his worthiness Does challenge much respect.†   (source)
  • Go on before; I shall enquire you forth: I must unto the road to disembark Some necessaries that I needs must use; And then I'll presently attend you.†   (source)
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