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Citations:arrival

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English citations of arrival

1719 1843
1851
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  • 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
    I was now set up for a Guinea trader; and my friend, to my great misfortune, dying soon after his arrival, I resolved to go the same voyage again, and I embarked in the same vessel with one who was his mate in the former voyage, and had now got the command of the ship.
  • 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
    The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but write it he did, somehow, and went down-stairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer's man. As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his eye.
  • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
    After their departure, taking place in inverted order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward.
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