Sentence examples for off the expedition from inspiring English sources

The men called off the expedition and began to head for shore — but it was too late.

Eric Shipton, the great mountaineer who had been Hillary's inspiration and mentor, was thrown off the expedition in favour of Hunt because of fears that he would not push the Nepalese authorities hard enough to start the climb in time.

He checked off the Expedition Impossible race across the mountains and desserts of Morocco and the high-elevation bike race in Leadville, Colo.

France and Spain had been planning an assault on Jamaica, but the losses incurred during the battle, including the capture of Admiral Paul, Comte de Grasse and his flagship Ville de Paris, led them to call off the expedition.

That rather took the shine off the expedition.

When I got home I found out that the actor Richard Burton had already made the same journey some time before, which took some of the gloss off the expedition.

(Ages 12 and up) There is some disagreement about the real age of George Shannon, a distant relative of the author, when he set off on "the Expedition".

The filmmakers, who produced the PBS series "The National Parks Americaa's Best Idea," have planned tours with Tauck before, but "Winter in Yellowstone" comes with a bonus: the opportunity to see Mr. Burns and Mr. Duncan, who will kick off the expeditions with a keynote talk and discussion of their films.

Because the off-world members of the expedition lack any trace of bloodmind, they too are treated as ghosts.

Meanwhile, two members of the expedition had run off to a military outpost several miles away.

To finish off the shopping expedition, you can sink into a comfortable chair or perch on a stool at the Woollahra Hotel, on the corner of Queen and Moncur Streets.