Sentence examples for aboard a raft from inspiring English sources

The refugees, five men and one woman, left Manzanillo on June 25 aboard a raft; five days later in the Cayman Islands they bought a 30-foot boat and set out again, the authorities said.

In a remarkable premonition of the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, the two emperors were at first anxious to make a deal, signing a treaty aboard a raft moored on the Nieman river in 1807, a plan whereby Napoleon would marry one of Alexander's sisters with a view to dynastic union.

"Thirst," a short play from 1913, set aboard a life raft on which a dancer, a gentleman and a sailor are stranded, is among the funniest.

Down on the river, climb aboard a rubber raft and watch the thick vines, low-flying swallows and waterfalls go by.

A 101-day voyage from Peru to Polynesia on the open ocean aboard a balsa raft would have been the ultimate test of courage and endurance for most men, but for Mr. Haugland it was more like an adventure vacation.

Enter another world when you hop aboard a bamboo raft to weave through the Jamaican jungle on the Martha Brae River.

Once safely aboard a boat, raft or land, wrap yourself warmly in blankets, clothing or anything else available to increase your body temperature.

The black youth is Pip, and together Pip and Ishmael agree to run away together, not on a raft on the Mississippi but aboard a Nantucket whaling ship.

Aboard the Confederate ironclad, some men thought it was just a raft taking away one of the Minnesota's boilers or its magazines, although one better-informed sailor wondered if this could be the Ericsson machine.

For me, one such is Robert Robinson's Aboard the Raft (published in Inside Robert Robinson in 1965).

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