Examples of 'Alongside' in a Sentence

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• "Not by wireless, but did any tug come alongside?"
• But, pardon me, here are the health officers and the customs inspectors coming alongside.
• Cliff worked his ship skillfully alongside and had no trouble in snapping magnetic lines to her lock.
• We saw the boat go alongside, and we saw him taken up the side and disappear.
• He wanted her to touch him, have him alongside with her.
• The superdreadnaught flashed alongside, a bare few hundred miles away, and stopped.
• He cut his gun a trifle, the other bike came alongside.
• He drove up alongside of them, and Aggie seemed glad to make the exchange.

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• Yes, yes, that whaler alongside is going north in a day or two.
• With the next fellow as a goal, he gradually crept alongside, and passed him with a spurt.
• These people told their story in gesticulated fragments, as first one boat drew alongside and then another.
• Stand by to come close alongside, now!
• Well, then, pull ahead, and let's get the whale alongside.
• The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
• Some hands now jumped into a boat alongside, and pushed a little off from the ship.
• We were now alongside and foaming past.
• "Now, get that sail down and come alongside!"
• The boat had lowered its sail and run alongside.
• The oars struck the water, and with a few strokes the boat was alongside.
• Your hunter's decided to stay aboard awhile and doesn't want it pounding alongside.
• Masts and booms, tangled with shrouds, sheets, and rent canvas, were rubbing gently alongside.
• This was a different proposition from crouching in frozen fear while the unknown lurked just alongside.
• As I manoeuvred to get alongside, I was asking myself, 'What does this fellow look like?'
• The river alongside seethed in frothy streaks.
• Why not drown alongside--if he meant drowning?
• He answered, and presently a canoe lay alongside, and he exchanged news with the paddlers.
• A faint white ridge of foam, thin, very thin, broke alongside.
• I felt her slipping through it with no other noise but a mysterious rustle alongside.
• The fire broke out alongside, and blew our way, the maid called out 'Fire!'
• Ben ranged up alongside of him.
• We made the water fly, and the boat was soon alongside and I aboard the schooner.
• Lay your beast alongside, Toomai, and let him prod with his tusks.
• And so Stickly-Prickly practiced, and Slow-Solid swam alongside.
• And so Stickly-Prickly dived, and Slow-and-Solid dived alongside.
• A pony ranged alongside, and he was hauled on to the priest's saddle-bow.
• Great things had been accomplished, with it alongside.
• Once arrived at the quay alongside which lay the big transatlantic liner, Poirot became brisk and alert.
• The boat was just about to run alongside it.
• Drew lunged and then reeled back as Shannon laid the barrel of his Colt alongside the Kentuckian's head.
• I had my box brought alongside me in a barrow.
• She walked with hesitating steps alongside Paul, bowing and turning away from him.
• 'May I turn in alongside you, sir?'
• "Give him a cigarette, Johnson," the doctor ordered the male nurse standing alongside my right foot.
• I am a railing alongside the torrent; whoever is able to grasp me may grasp me!
• Jack guided the big airboat down onto it, and put his airjeep alongside with the canopy up.
• We went alongside one of these and watched the long-armed Selenites winding in a net.
• He was quite small alongside the man he accosted.
• The boy alongside of Johnny whimpered and sniffed.
• He knew better, for Captain Dan Cullen was standing alongside of him.
• His quick eye noted the empty machine alongside of Johnny's, but he said nothing.
• The next moment he received a clout alongside the head that knocked him over on his side.
• The sweet sounds drew nearer, and soon the boat from which they were worked lay alongside us.
• He has no gift for laying himself alongside different types of men.
• A lost voice alongside started cursing a swivel hook.
• "Could anybody have concealed himself on board while the lighter was lying alongside the wharf?"
• The steamer lay puffing alongside the quay, on the point of starting.
• Only one bottle alongside of Injun Joe ain't enough.
• The three others immediately came alongside the chief galley to receive their orders.
• Dworn found himself alongside the scorpion, just as its tail gun fired once more.
• Next morning, on the same course, Mahbub's stallion ranged alongside the Colonel.
• In a corridor similar to that alongside Kazmah's.
• Then he tramped in, an' I was some put to keep alongside him.