Boarded

Examples

• I am pretty sure you never boarded here? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My brother, being yet unmarried, did not keep house, but boarded himself and his apprentices in another family. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In general I am adverse to stone structures for this purpose unless thus boarded. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Of course, the police boarded us and put us through a health examination, and inquired into our politics, before they would let us land. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The sight of the mangled and dying men which met my eye as I boarded the ship was sickening. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In order to be nearer his new friend Edison boarded with Pope at Elizabeth, New Jersey, for some time, living the strenuous life in the performance of his duties. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To test whether this could be done I boarded the gunboat Essex and requested Captain Wm. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was the raw, half-lighted, covered-in vastness of the dark place, boarded and hollow underfoot, with only desolation everywhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We have double-boarded the inside of our silo by this operation, and rendered it practically impervious to the air. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He saw his galleys rammed by the sharp prows of other galleys; his fighting-men shot down; his ships boarded. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I rushed to the deck to be with my men as they boarded. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Julia's three sons and my nephew had boarded with him four years. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Fig.?1 shows one of the ways in which a doorway may be made so that it can be boarded up air-tight. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.

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