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Definition of Embarking
1. embark [v] - See also: embark
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embarking
| embarging embargo embargoed embargoes embargoing embargos embark embark on embarkation embarkations | embarked embarkee embarkees embarkest embarketh embarking (current term) embarkment embarkments embarks embarrasing |
Literary usage of Embarking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... and of oarsmen a full score Gather'd thereon, embarking for the God A hecatomb
of oxen, and aboard Led and bade fair Chryse'is to a seat; With whom, ..."
2. America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive by James Silk Buckingham (1841)
"Description of the Bustle of embarking.—Beautiful Scenery of the Delaware.—Passage
by Burlington and Bristol.—Landing at Burden- town. ..."
3. Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield by John Gillies, George Whitefield (1839)
"CHAPTER III. from the time of fiis embarking for Georgia, to his re-embarking
for England, 1738. Is the latter end of December, 1737, he embarked for ..."
4. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"on this service under the orders of Captain O'Bryen, of the Emerald, made some
captures of trading vessels,) and every disposition was settled for embarking ..."
5. America and the Far Eastern Question: An Examination of Modern Phases of the by Thomas Franklin Millard (1909)
"IN embarking upon a new national policy Japan was not hampered by some matters
which under similar circumstances would impede and restrain many other ..."
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