All 5 Uses of
embark
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.†
p. 16.2embarks = leaves on a trip
- These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.†
p. 16.8embark = leave on a trip
- Those are as fixed as fate, and my voyage is only now delayed until the weather shall permit my embarkation.†
p. 21.6 *embarkation = the process of setting off on a trip
- I found that the wind was northeast and must have driven me far from the coast from which I had embarked.†
p. 176.4embarked = left on a trip
- The day was fair, the wind favourable; all smiled on our nuptial embarkation.†
p. 196.7embarkation = the process of setting off on a trip
Definition:
to leave on a trip -- especially to board a ship