Citations:arriving

English citations of arriving

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• 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

  My next concern was to get me a stone mortar to stamp or beat some corn in; for as to the mill, there was no thought of arriving at that perfection of art with one pair of hands.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyages which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole.

• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  They told me in Nantucket, though it certainly seems a curious story, that when he sailed the old Categut whaleman, his crew, upon arriving home, were mostly all carried ashore to the hospital, sore exhausted and worn out.